Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Pasta Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their pasta dishes into this challenge, some of the restaurants have created a special pasta creation just for this challenge and others have entered their top choice off their existing menu. Each restaurant will be featuring their pasta creation on their menu from October 5-29, 2017.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the pasta creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best pasta 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 #PastaChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite pasta 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 night of it, visit 2 restaurants or more to share and taste the different pasta creations or go solo or with a friend – just remember to VOTE for your favourites between October 5-29, 2017.
Here are the Pasta creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
Rigatoni Vecchia Romagna
Price: $20
Created by: Chef Haymo Elzenbaumer
Description: Rigatoni with garlic, braised radicchio tossed in a brandy cream sauce and topped with crispy prosciutto and parmigiano.
Offered: Tuesday – Sunday dinner after 5pm
Apero Kitchen and Wine Bar
1735 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Tel: (604) 921-2583
Web: https://aperokitchen.wordpress.com
Twitter @apero_kitchen
Instagram: @aperokitchen
Mosaic Grille
Price: $29
Created by: Mosaic team
Description: Smoked Fraser valley Duck Tortellini
Offered: Dinner only
Mosaic Grille
655 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-639-4768
Web: https://vancouver.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html
Twitter: @HyattVancouver
Instagram: @HyattVancouver
Novo Pizzeria & Wine Bar
Price: $22
Description: Crab Ravioli with mascarpone, corn and a citrus beurre blanc
Created by: Carmine Paradiso
Offered: available all the time
Novo Pizzeria & Wine Bar
2118 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 736-2220
Web: http://www.novopizzeria.com/
Twitter: @NOVOPizzeria
Instagram: @novopizzeriayvr
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
Tagliatelle Paglia e Fieno
Price: $19
Created by: Chef Angela
Description: Fresh herb Rose Sauce with Proscuitto Cotto, and fresh mushrooms served with our homemade spinach and egg Tagliatelle! Buonissimo
Offered: From 11AM – 9PM, Tuesday through Saturday
Mangia e Scappa Italian Foods
23238 Mavis Ave, Fort Langley
Phone: 604.888.4104
Twitter: @mangiaescappaif
Instagram: @mangiaescappaif
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Areta Wong
Blogger of Foodgressing
Twitter: @foodgressing
Instagram: @foodgressing
Joyce Lam
Food Blogger for her own Vanfoodies
Twitter: @vanfoodies
Instagram: @vanfoodies
Bethany Ho
Blogger of Bites of Vancouver
Twitter: @bitesofvancity
Instagram @bitesofvancouver
Make sure you pick up one of the Pasta Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from October 5-29, 2017 https://vancouverfoodster.com/pasta-challenge/