Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Ceviche Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their ceviche creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their ceviche creations on their menu from August 20 – September 13, 2015.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the ceviche creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best ceviche 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 #CevicheChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.

Voting criteria –  some things to help you judge your favourite ceviche 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 ceviche creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites 

Here are the 3 ceviche dishes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.

American Grille 

Chilled Albacore Tuna Ceviche

Price: $15

Description: Marinated in Coconut Milk & Lime With Cilantro & Avocado. Served with Crispy Plantain Chips

Created by: Chef Danilo Ibara

Offered: All the time

American Grille

7571 Westminster Highway, Richmond

Tel: 604-232-2804

Web: http://american-grille.com/

Twitter: @GrilleYVR

 

The Boathouse Restaurant

Boathouse Ceviche

Price: 16.99

Description: Prawns, pacific cod, scallops, pico de gallo, citrus juice, grilled pineapple, corn flour tortillas

Created by: Chef Brent Fisher

Offered: Brunch, Lunch, and Dinner.

The Boathouse Restaurant

1305 Arbutus Street

Tel: 604) 738-5487

Web: http://boathouserestaurants.ca/

Twitter: @BoathouseBC #Kitsilano

and

The Boathouse Restaurant

1795 Beach Avenue

Tel: 604 669-2225

Web: http://boathouserestaurants.ca/

Twitter: @BoathouseBC #EnglishBay

 

Little Mexico Cantina

Ceviche & Aguachile Estilo Sinaloa duo

Price: $15

Description:

Ceviche: Fresh red snapper, diced tomatoe, red onion, cucumber, serrano pepper and cilantro marinated and with a blend of lime, clamato juice and house seasoning served on a corn husk with a mango, aguacate pico de gallo tossed in an apricot chile ancho sauce and seasoned with a tajin blend of seasoning

Tosta de Aguachile: Shrimp marinated with a blend of limejuice, serrano pepper and cilantro served on a baked white corn tostada.

pair with Siete Misterios Mezcal, orange wedges and a blend of seasoned salt for $5.00

Created by: Chef Roberto Lopez Lara

Offered: Available for Dinner

Little Mexico Cantina

3131 Chatham St #150, Richmond

Tel: (604) 272-5123

Web: http://www.littlemexicocantina.com/

Twitter: @LMCSteveston

Instagram: littlemexicocantina

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Ceviche Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at https://vancouverfoodster.com/ceviche-challenge/

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

Alyssa Dawson

Lifestyle host and producer. Host at Novus TV, blogger.

Twitter: @AlyssaCDawson

 

Joyce Lam

Food Blogger for her own http://vanfoodies.com/

Twitter: @vanfoodies

 

Louisa Chan

Writer and Editor of L for Life as well as Ming Pao

Twitter: @L_FOR_LIFE