Welcome to the 2nd Vancouver Foodster Grilled Cheese Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their grilled cheese creations into this challenge. Each restaurant and food truck will be featuring their Grilled Cheese creations on their menu from February 24 – March 19, 2017.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the grilled cheese creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best grilled cheese creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #GrilledCheeseYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite grilled cheese creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to share and taste the different grilled cheese creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites.
Here are the 5 Grilled Cheese creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
La Grotta Del Formaggio
The Eye of the Tiger Grrrrilled Cheese
The Eye of the Tiger Grrrrilled Cheese
Price: $7.95
Created by: Sandra Raines
Description: Canadian Cheddar, Parmigiano Grana Padano, Blue Cheese sauce, Balsamic roasted Gala Apples, sweet caramelised onions, and toasted chopped walnuts between two slices of Country Marbled Rye, grilled with garlic butter.
Offered: during business hours at both La Grotta Del Formaggio and The Drive Coffee Bar (until sold out of daily batches).
La Grotta Del Formaggio
1791 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 255-3911
Web: http://www.lgdf.ca/
Twitter: @LaGrottaDelForm
Instagram: @lagrottadelform
Same creation is also available at:
The Drive Coffee Bar
1670 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Web: https://thedrivecoffee.com/
Twitter: @TheDriveCoffee
Instagram: @thedrivecoffeebar
Offered: Every day after 9AM,
Cheeses Crust Food Truck
CHEESES STEAK SUPREME Holy Smoked
CHEESES STEAK SUPREME Holy Smoked
Price: $15
Created by Cheeses Crust (aka Larry Jordan)
Description: Grilled Cheeses Crust Sandwich, triple layered with Canadian AAA Steak, Bacon, 3 Cheese blend of cheddar, jack and mozzarella, grilled onions and sweet red peppers melted deliciously with diced jalapenos on sour dough bread.
Offered all the time. Lunch time and festival favourite.
We are at Broadway Tech Centre on Renfrew on Friday and Kit and Ace on Tuesday and will be at Celtic Festival on Robson for St. Pattys day weekend.
Cheeses Crust Food Truck
Tel: n/a
Web: http://www.cheesescrust.ca/
Twitter: @_cheesescrust
Instagram: n/a
West Village Cafe
The Village Grilled Cheese Sandwich
The Village Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Price: $7.99
Created by: Paul Bhangoo and Tim Cuff
The Village Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Melted Cheddar & Swiss Cheese, Sweet Garlic, Fresh Basil & Black Pepper on Grilled Sour Dough
Offered: Daily, all the time.
West Village Cafe
#160 – 5620 152nd Street, Surrey
Tel: (604) 372-2083
Web: https://www.facebook.com/West-Village-Cafe-618382875024012/
Twitter: n/a
Instagram: @west_village_cafe_
Dunn’s Famous
All Beef Hot Dog Grilled Cheese
All Beef Hot Dog Grilled Cheese
Price- $10
Created by: Yonathan Delgado
Description: White bread, 1/4 lb sliced hot dog, caramelize onions and cheddar cheese.
Offered: All day, everyday
Dunns Famous
827 Seymour Street,Vancouver
Tel: 604-682-8938
Web: http://www.dunnsfamousbc.com
Twitter: @DunnsFamousBC
Melt City Grilled Cheese
so Gouda
Price: $8
Description: The “so Gouda” combines caramelized apples, smoked bacon and melted Gouda. Yum. Served on fresh sourdough and topped with our Brinjal pickle spread.
Created by: Chefs : Yasmin Ghaffari and Elizabeth Carr
Offered: all the time
Melt City Grilled Cheese
Tel: n/a
Twitter: @MeltCitygc
Instagram: @meltcity
Make sure you pick up one of the Grilled Cheese Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants. Remember to Vote here for your favourites daily
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Ed Lau
Writer and Photographer for Eds Eats and Vancity Buzz.
Twitter: @edlau
Hanson Do
Blogger at Nosh and Nibble
Twitter: @hansondee