The Vancouver Foodster 3rd Pizza Challenge was a great success featuring unique creations at restaurants around Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody, Fort Langley, West Vancouver and North Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their creation on their menu from March 3-26, 2017. and their customers voted for their favourites daily throughout the challenge for their People’s Choice favourites.
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: Tara Lee, Corey Basso and David Peng
The Winners are:
1st Place:
Pizzeria SpaccaNapoli
Alla Facciazza Pizza
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Marco Cresciullo
Description: This pizza is a piece of my family roots and stories. I come from the town where the Mediterranean Diet was born . It is an ancient territory and little known, that still keeps the beauty of the pheasant society of the last century. It is part of a unique cultural and historical heritage that has spanned the history and the myth of the dawn of civilization, all of this made me who I am now, and it is all reflected in my dishes. I wanted to create a green based pizza, like the spring hills covered of green and flowers. A touch of warm white, the contrast of the brown and red reminding the soil where everything grows. All is covered with an elegant pistachio grain. To me it is like painting my beautiful land in Italy. All this in some way makes me feel lucky and a little special. Hope you will enjoy it, Buon Appetito!
Ingredients: A homemade recipe of fresh arugula pesto, Fior Di Latte, fresh garlic, Porcini mushrooms, Italian truffle cream and topped with prosciutto crudo aged 18 months, shaved Parmigiano Reggiano and toasted pistachio grain.
Available: Tuesday-Sunday all day everyday.
Spacca Napoli Pizzeria
2801 St Johns Street, Port Moody
Tel: (604) 939-5800
Web: https://pizzeriaspaccanapoli.com/
Twitter @Spacca_NapoliPM
Instagram: @pizzeriaspacca
Chef Marco Cresciullo
2nd Place (tie):
Novo Pizzeria
Chorizo Salami & Thyme Chili Honey
Price: $20
Created by: Novo Pizza team
Description: fresh mozzarella, basil, smoked provolone, ricotta di bufala
Offered: All the time
Novo Pizzeria
2118 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 736-2220
Web: http://www.novopizzeria.com/
Twitter: @NOVOPizzeria
Instagram: @novopizzeriayvr
Chef Carmine Paradiso
2nd Place (tie):
Bay Moorings Restaurant
Buckwheat Pizza Special
Buckwheat Pizza Special
Price: $17.95 (on Tuesday’s $12)
Created by: Chef Danilo
Description: with mozzarella cheese, marinated cherry tomatoes, sautéed prawns, fresh ricotta cheese, candied ginger, arugula pesto and blanched whole almonds.
Offered: all the time
Bay Moorings Restaurant
6330 Bay Street, Horeshoe Bay
Tel: (604) 921-8184
Web: http://baymooringsrestaurant.com/
Instagram: @bay_moorings
Chef Danilo
3rd Place:
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
Patate E Pipi
Price: $20
Created by: Chef Luca Carbone, 15-Year Old Pizzaiolo, at Mangia e Scappa
Description/Ingredients: Tomato-Infused Wheat and Tipo 00 Crust, A Foundation of Creamy Sauce Topped with Thinly Shaved Potatoes, Fire-Roasted Red Peppers, Fontina, Garlic Confit, Bonetti’s Pancetta and Mangia e Scappa’s Handmade Fresh Cheese using owner Giulia Carbone’s Family Recipe. This Pizza is Dedicated to Nonna After her Favourite Dish from Calabria, Italy.
Offered: From 11AM – 9PM, Tuesday through Sunday
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
23238 Mavis Ave, Fort Langley
Phone: 604.888.4104
Twitter: @mangiaescappaif
Instagram: @mangiaescappaif
Luca Carbone,
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Pizza Creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Pizzeria SpaccaNapoli
Alla Facciazza Pizza
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Marco Cresciullo
Description: This pizza is a piece of my family roots and stories. I come from the town where the Mediterranean Diet was born . It is an ancient territory and little known, that still keeps the beauty of the pheasant society of the last century. It is part of a unique cultural and historical heritage that has spanned the history and the myth of the dawn of civilization, all of this made me who I am now, and it is all reflected in my dishes. I wanted to create a green based pizza, like the spring hills covered of green and flowers. A touch of warm white, the contrast of the brown and red reminding the soil where everything grows. All is covered with an elegant pistachio grain. To me it is like painting my beautiful land in Italy. All this in some way makes me feel lucky and a little special. Hope you will enjoy it, Buon Appetito!
Ingredients: A homemade recipe of fresh arugula pesto, Fior Di Latte, fresh garlic, Porcini mushrooms, Italian truffle cream and topped with prosciutto crudo aged 18 months, shaved Parmigiano Reggiano and toasted pistachio grain.
Available: Tuesday-Sunday all day everyday.
Spacca Napoli Pizzeria
2801 St Johns Street, Port Moody
Tel: (604) 939-5800
Web: https://pizzeriaspaccanapoli.com/
Twitter @Spacca_NapoliPM
Instagram: @pizzeriaspacca
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Bay Moorings Restaurant
Buckwheat Pizza Special
Buckwheat Pizza Special
Price: $17.95 (on Tuesday’s $12)
Created by: Chef Danilo
Description: with mozzarella cheese, marinated cherry tomatoes, sautéed prawns, fresh ricotta cheese, candied ginger, arugula pesto and blanched whole almonds.
Offered: all the time
Bay Moorings Restaurant
6330 Bay Street, Horeshoe Bay
Tel: (604) 921-8184
Web: http://baymooringsrestaurant.com/
Instagram: @bay_moorings
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
Patate E Pipi
Patate E Pipi
Price: $20
Created by: Chef Luca Carbone, 15-Year Old Pizzaiolo, at Mangia e Scappa
Description/Ingredients: Tomato-Infused Wheat and Tipo 00 Crust, A Foundation of Creamy Sauce Topped with Thinly Shaved Potatoes, Fire-Roasted Red Peppers, Fontina, Garlic Confit, Bonetti’s Pancetta and Mangia e Scappa’s Handmade Fresh Cheese using owner Giulia Carbone’s Family Recipe. This Pizza is Dedicated to Nonna After her Favourite Dish from Calabria, Italy.
Offered: From 11AM – 9PM, Tuesday through Sunday
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
23238 Mavis Ave, Fort Langley
Phone: 604.888.4104
Twitter: @mangiaescappaif
Instagram: @mangiaescappaif
Thank you to all the chefs and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured the Pizza Challenge creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Pizza creations! See all the Pizza Challenge Entries Here.
By: Richard Wolak