Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Stacked Sandwich Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their Stacked Sandwich creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their Stacked Sandwich creations on their menu from September 10-30, 2015.

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

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

Here are the 6 stacked sandwich creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.

 

The Copper Chimney

Do Ranga Stacked Sandwich

Price: $18

Created by: Executive Chef Jaroslaw Faryna

Description: spiced masala lamb, tandoori chicken, apple pear walnut chutney, micro greens, avocado salsa, sesame bun, spicy chips

Offered: Lunch and dinner daily

The Copper Chimney

567 Hornby Street, Vancouver

Tel: 604-689-8862

Web: http://www.copperchimney.ca/

Twitter: @CopperChimney_1

 

The Meatery

Wild Boar Cubano

Price: $13

Created by: Jonathan Plaza

Description: The concept is a take on the classic cubano sandwich that is assembled and pressed (grilled), the most interesting grilled ham and cheese.

Offered: 11 am to 6 pm (7 days a week)

The Meatery

3108 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver

Tel: 604-980-1125

Web: http://themeatery.ca/

Twitter: @MeateryB2B

 

Truffles Kitchen

The Fresh Pear Proscuitto and Blue Cheese Stacker Sandwich

Price: $10

Created by: Chef Josh Karbelnik

Description:  It is a grilled panini sandwich.

Offered: 9:30am-6pm, VanDusen Garden Kitchen

Truffle Fine Foods Cafe

5151 Oak Street, Vancouver

Tel: 604-505- 4961

Web: www.trufflesfinefoods.com/café

Twitter: @trufflesfoods

 

And

 

Truffle Fine Foods Café

785 Davie Street, Vancouver

Web: www.trufflesfinefoods.com/café

Twitter: @trufflesfoods

 

And

 

Truffle Fine Foods Cafe

777 Columbia Street, New Westminster

Twitter: @trufflesfoods

 

Doughgirls Bakeshop

The Benedictine Club Crunch

Price: $10.50

Created by: Rose Concepcion & Thuy Kelp

Description: The Doughgirls #DownHomeDoneRight club sandwich w/a twist. Free-Range Cajun spiced chicken breast*, Fraser Valley double  Smoked bacon*, avocado, roma tomatoes, UBC Farm organic greens**, Deep River Mesquite BBQ Potato Chips, and Benedictine (A cucumber, scallion, herb cream cheese) on our Organic Anadama Bread (An old-time New England loaf of molasses & corn grit). Served w/a side salad of seasonal greens, house-made pickles & Chipotle Buttermilk Dressing.

Offered:  lunch and early dinner until closing Monday-Saturday 8am-6pm plus seasonal late Fridays till 8pm, Sundays 9am-5pm.

Doughgirls Bakeshop

3322 Shrum Lane (Westbrook Village)

Tel: (604) 333-5474

Web: http://www.doughgirlsbakeshop.com/

Twitter: @DoughgirlsBake

 

Saj & Co.

AL Haikal

Price: $13

Created by: Malek Anouti

Description:  AL Haikal means strcuture or temple. temple as it looks like an architectural temple viewed from different perspectives; also haykal is a synonim of my newborn boy Kayan!

Ingredients: Authentically baked on the saj; Organic rye and buckwheat dough, with Lebanese villager’s style Zaatar, kale and spinach with our signature dressing, avocado, dates, almonds, walnuts, pecan, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, premium tahini, organic coffee, onions, fresh mint leaves, labneh, topped with orange zest and pomegranate molasses.

Offered: Mon – Fri 12pm – 3:30 pm and 6pm – 9 pm; and Saturday and 6pm – 10pm

Saj & Co.

813 Davie Street, Vancouver

Web: https://www.facebook.com/sajco

Twitter: @Sajnco

 

Solly’s Bagelry

Pumped-Up Latkeh Eggel

Price: $16.50

Created by: Leah Markovitch

Description: Solly’s Delicious stacked sandwich Eggel starts with a Solly’s “Brooklyn Style” Boiled Pumpernickel Marble bagel, toasted and buttered and topped with a poached fresh egg, a slice of tomato and a generous topping of Dijon.  The tomato is topped with a large 150 gram portion of  locally cured absolutely delicious steamed Corned Beef and a generous piece of  cheddar cheese which is  melted over.   To top things off,  a Hot Crunchy Home fried Solly’s  ‘Latkeh’ (Jewish Style Potato Pancake)  a few slices of Kosher style Garlic pickle and, of course,  the Toasted buttered top of the Pumpernickel Bagel.  All this is served with potato chips and a pickle.  A mouthful worth waiting for !

Offered: All day, 7 days a week.

Solly’s Bagelry

368 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver

Web: http://www.sollysbagelry.com

Twitter: @SollysBagelry

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Stacked Sandwich Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourite Stacked Sandwich creations. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at

https://vancouverfoodster.com/stacked-sandwich-challenge/

 

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

 

Tara Lee

Freelance journalist and broadcaster. Writer for Georgia Straight

Twitter: @VanGlutton

 

Aaron Alexander

Writer and Creator of BC BuzZ….Plus a film fanatic, music lover & lover of the arts!

Twitter: @aaronmalexander

 

Jay Minter

Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.

Twitter: @jminter