The Vancouver Foodster Spaghetti Challenge was a success featuring 6 spaghetti creations from restaurants around Vancouver, West Vancouver, Maple Ridge, Mission and Langley. Each restaurant featured their spaghetti creation from October 5-30, 2016. 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: Stephanie Yuen, Corey Basso and Ed Lau.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
Spaghetti Rucola
Price: $18
Created by: Chef Haymo Elzenbaumer
Description: Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes, goat cheese and arugula
Offered: All the time
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
1735 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Tel: (604) 921-2583
Web: https://aperokitchen.wordpress.com
Twitter @apero_kitchen
Instagram: @aperokitchen
Chef Haymo Elzenbaumer
2nd Place:
Novo Pizzeria & Wine Bar
Spaghetti all’Amatriciana
Price: $19
Description: San Marzano pomodoro, Guanciale (pork jowl), pecorino Romano, freshly cracked pepper
Created by: Carmine Paradiso
Offered: available lunch and dinner – 11:30 – 3:00 5:00 to closing
Novo Pizzeria & Wine Bar
2118 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 736-2220
Web: http://www.novopizzeria.com/
Twitter: @NOVOPizzeria
Instagram: @novopizzeriayvr
Carmine Paradiso
3rd Place:
Ban Chok Dee
Spaghetthai Woon Sen
Price: $15
Created by: Chefs Ladda Kayankarn, Thares Chanto and Parinya Loptson
Description: A Combination of Thai Flavors including Aromatic Citrus, Creamy Coconut Milk, Crushed Roasted Peanuts and Mung Bean Paste to create a delectable Nam-Prik Sauce with Prawns and Scallops on top of light Woon Sen noodles to become… Spaghetthai! 🙂
Offered: All the time
Ban Chok Dee
20563 Douglas Crescent, Langley
Tel: 778-278-3088
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter: @BanChokDeeThai
Instagram: @banchokdeethai
And
Ban Chok Dee
20395 Lougheed Hwy, Maple Ridge
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter: @BanChokDeeThai
Instagram: @banchokdeemr
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Spaghetti creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Ban Chok Dee
Spaghetthai Woon Sen
Price: $15
Created by: Chefs Ladda Kayankarn, Thares Chanto and Parinya Loptson
Description: A Combination of Thai Flavors including Aromatic Citrus, Creamy Coconut Milk, Crushed Roasted Peanuts and Mung Bean Paste to create a delectable Nam-Prik Sauce with Prawns and Scallops on top of light Woon Sen noodles to become… Spaghetthai! 🙂
Offered: All the time
Ban Chok Dee
20563 Douglas Crescent, Langley
Tel: 778-278-3088
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter: @BanChokDeeThai
Instagram: @banchokdeethai
And
Ban Chok Dee
20395 Lougheed Hwy, Maple Ridge
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter: @BanChokDeeThai
Instagram: @banchokdeemr
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
Spaghetti Rucola
Price: $18
Created by: Chef Haymo Elzenbaumer
Description: Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes, goat cheese and arugula
Offered: All the time
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
1735 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Tel: (604) 921-2583
Web: https://aperokitchen.wordpress.com
Twitter @apero_kitchen
Instagram: @aperokitchen
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Kuma Izakaya
Seafood Tomato Cream Spaghetti
Price: $13.50
Created by: Chef Hyun Woo Kim
Description: Creamy tomato spaghetti served with garlic-sauteed mussels, squid, baby scallops, and shrimps. Finished with chili powder, parmesan cheese, and garlic chips.
served in hot stone pot.
Offered: Lunch and Dinner daily.
Kuma Izakaya
1233 Hamilton St, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 379-1177
Web: http://www.izakayakuma.com/
Twitter: n/a
Instagram: @kuma_chef_kim
Thank you to all the chefs, and their restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their Spaghetti on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Spaghetti creations! See all the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak