Welcome to the 4th Annual Vancouver Foodster Best Burger Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their burger creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their Burger creations on their menu from October 19 – November 12, 2017.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the burger creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best burger 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 #BurgerChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite burger 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 burger creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites.
Here are the Burger creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
H2 Rotisserie Bar
Hot Jill Meats Huckleberry B.C. Bison Burger
Hot Jill Meats Huckleberry B.C. Bison Burger
Created by: Chef Caitlin Mark
Price: $19
Description: 6 oz. grass fed pasture raised BC bison, huckleberry relish, Little Qualicum hot jill monterey cheddar, crisp barnston island red frill lettuce, garlic aioli, served on an artisan challah bun.
Main Protein Ingredient: Bison
Offered: Lunch and dinner meal-times (12:00pm – 10:00pm, daily)
H2 Rotisserie Bar
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 691-6966
Twitter: @H2restaurant
Instagram @h2restaurant
Hopcott Meats
Farmer Bob’s Burger
Farmer Bob’s Burger
Created by: Christina Sepidoza
Price: $12.50
Description: 6oz Hopcott prime rib patty, topped with pickled and panko breaded jalapeno peppers, cheddar & monterey jack cheese, Hopcott’s honey chipotle sauce, lettuce & tomato on a pretzel bun. Served with house cut fries or green salad with Hopcott Mandarin Dill dressing
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: Offered for lunch. Available 10:30am to 4pm, 7 days a week.
Hopcott Meats
18385 Old Dewdney Trunk Road, Pitt Meadows
Tel: 604.465.7799
Web: http://www.hopcottmeats.ca/
Twitter @HopcottFarms
Instagram @hopcottfarms
Fresh Window by Drew’s Catering
Burger Noir
Burger Noir
Created by: Chef Sekihata Katsuyuki
Price: $12
Description: 24 hour braised beef short rib, savoy cabbage coleslaw, horseradish aioli, shoestring potato & black brioche bun – Add shaved black truffles ($15 supplement)
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: 11am-3pm Monday – Friday.
Fresh Window at Drew’s Catering
1312 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver
Web: https://drewscatering.com/
Instagram @freshwindowvan
Falconetti’s
Falconetti’s Smokehouse Steakburger
Falconetti’s Smokehouse Steakburger
Created by:Chef Jo and Chef Billy
Price: $17
Description: Using Canada’s best sirloin beef, we top it with carefully chosen ingredients to complement this beefy bliss. Starting with a smoky gouda cheese and house cherry-wood smoked bacon that is accented by sweet pickle red onion, and chopped romaine, this defining burger is slathered with a Tennessee whisky tomato jam and our grainy mustard aioli on each side of a custom created Cabernet bun. Served with our special hand cut fries.
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: Served from 5 pm everyday
Falconetti’s
1812 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Twitter:@Falconettis
Instagram: @falconettis
The Ellis
The Mediterranean
The Mediterranean
Created by: Chef Tyler Dallner
Price: $17
Description: One pork and one beef patty, roasted peppers and onions, ricotta and provolone cheeses, pickled chillies and dried tomatoes
Main Protein Ingredient: Pork and Beef
Offered: All the time
The Ellis
2204 York Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 428-2456
Instagram @theelliskits
Make sure you pick up one of the Burger Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at
https://vancouverfoodster.com/burger-challenge/
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Sherman Chan
Food Blogger for his own shermansfoodadventures.com
Twitter: @ShermansFoodAdv
Instagram @shermansfoodadventures
Hanson Do
Blogger for his own Nosh and Nibble blog
Twitter: @hansondee
Instagram @noshandnibble
Ed Lau
Writer and Photographer for Eds Eats
Twitter: @edlau
Instagram @edlauphoto