The Vancouver Foodster Stacked Sandwich Challenge was a huge success featuring creations from restaurants around Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their stacked sandwich creation from September 10-30, 2015. Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each judge who tasted each creation with a rigorous process based on taste, originality/uniqueness and presentation/appearance.
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Jay Minter, Tara Lee and Aaron Alexander
The Winners are:
1st Place (tie):
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
Malek Anouti
1st Place (tie):
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
Leah Markovitch
2nd Place:
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
Thuy Kelp
3rd Place:
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
Executive Chef Jaroslaw Faryna
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Stacked Sandwich creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
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
2nd Place People’s Choice:
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
3rd Place People’s Choice:
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
Thank you to the chefs and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their Stacked Sandwiches on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Stacked Sandwich creations! See the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak