The first Annual Vancouver Foodster Local Pancake Challenge was a huge success featuring 9 pancake dishes from 9 restaurants including a Food Truck from around Vancouver and North Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their pancake creation from October 18 – November 18, and then the public voted between November 15 –21st. The pancake creations had to have a minimum of 3 Local ingredients in the dish and it could have been savoury or sweet.
The Winners are:
1st Place: Yolks Breakfast for their BC Hazelnut Pancakes with local apple-aged white cheddar fritters
BC Hazelnut Pancakes with local apple-aged white cheddar fritters
Created by Chef Steven Ewing
Description: BC Hazelnut Pancakes with local apple-aged white cheddar fritters
Local ingredients: Eggs, Apples, Hazelnuts, Honey, Cheddar, Milk
Savoury or Sweet: Sweet
Location: Food Truck at Dunsmuir & Beatty Street, Vancouver
Twitter:@YolksBreakfast
Web: http://www.yolks.ca/
2nd Place: Fishworks for their Pancake aux Fruits de mer
Pancake aux Fruits de mer
Created by: Chef Shallaw Kadir
Description: Pancake with seafood
Local Ingredients: Baynes Sound Manila clams, B.C. Honey Mussels, Squid, Qualicum Beach Scallops
Savoury or Sweet: Savoury
Location: 91 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver
Twitter: @FishworksLOLO
3rd Place: Catch 122 for their Flap Jaques
Flap Jacques
Created by: Rachel Whiting and Chris Hogan
Description: Carrot cake pancake with red wine poached local plum, pumpkin cream cheese, toasted walnuts and orange vanilla cream
Local Ingredients:
1. Milk and Whipping Cream and Yogurt – Birchwood Dairy (Abbotsford)
2. Eggs – Green as Grass Farm (Chiliwack)
3. Pumpkin – Richmond Country Farm (Stevenston)
4. Plum – Local Farmer’s Market (Vancouver)
5. Carrot – Local Farmer’s Market (Vancouver)
Savoury or Sweet: Sweet
Location:122 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Twitter: @catch122
Web: http://catch122.com/
Thank you to all the chefs and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their pancakes on the menu for the past month during this challenge.
Looking forward to the 2nd annual Pancake Challenge next year where I challenge chefs and their restaurants to concoct more exciting pancake dishes!
By: Richard Wolak