Welcome to the 4th Vancouver Foodster Pizza Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their pizza into this challenge, some of the restaurants have created a special pizza just for this challenge and others have entered their top choice off their existing menu. Each restaurant will be featuring their pizza on their menu from April 5-29, 2018.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the pizza creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best pizza 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 #PizzaChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets, instagram stories and instagram posts during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite pizza 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 pizzas or go solo or with a friend – just remember to VOTE for your favourites between April 5-29, 2018.
Here are the Pizza creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Piva Modern Italian
The Modern Italian
Price: $18
Created by: Executive Chef, Subraaz Abdullah
Description: This pizza uses some of the basic luxuries from a contemporary Italian garden and pantry. Starting with our braised garlic alfredo sauce, we combine the unique flavor of roasted Cornish game hen with a balance of traditional herbs and spices topped with our modern version of pesto to finish.
Ingredients: Roast game hen, capicola, braised garlic alfredo, sweet onion, smoked caciocavallo, arugula pine nut pesto.
Offered: All the time
Piva Modern Italian
787 Columbia Street, New Westminster
Phone: (604) 522-0221
Web: https://pivarestaurant.ca/
Twitter: @PivaRestaurant
Instagram: @pivamodernitalian
Bowen Island Pizza Co.
Chorizo & Blue Cheese with balsamic reduction
Price: $22
Created by: Owner, Melanie McCready
Description: Chorizo & Blue Cheese with balsamic reduction on top of housemade San Marzano tomato sauce and a thin organic flour crust.
Ingredients: Organic flour, extra virgin olive oil, yeast, salt, San Marzanos, garlic, spice, chorizo, mozzarella, blue cheese, balsamic reduction.
Offered: 11 am until the market closes at 7 pm, daily.
Bowen Island Pizza Company
123 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver
Tel:(604) 770-3660
Web: https://www.bowenislandpizzaco.com/
Twitter: @BowenPizzaCo
Instagram @bowenislandpizzaco
Backcountry Brewing
Wake-n-Bacon 2.0
Price: $18
Created by: Chef Shannon Brown
Description: Pepper crusted Guencaile, Northarm farm Sunchokes, Creamed leeks & Free ranged Egg with Truffle oil served ontop our house made 24 hour fermented Neapolitan style pizza dough, hand stretched to order.
Ingredients: Truffle cream, Leeks, Sunchokes, Guanciale, Caramelized onion, Green onions, Mozzarella, Free run egg.
Offered: All the time
Backcountry Brewing
405-1201 Commercial Way, Squamish
Web: https://www.backcountrybrewing.com/
Tel:(604) 567-2739
Twitter @Backcountry604
Instagram @backcountrybrewing
The Blenheim Pub
Il Giardino
Price: $16
Created by: Chef David Scott
Description: was inspired by a walk around Kitsilano markets with a focus on fresh and local ingredients. The pizza has a crispy, cheese crust with a San Marzano tomato sauce base and is topped with Portobello & brown mushrooms, zucchini, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, corn, mozzarella, and a drizzle of balsamic reduction.
Ingredients: San Marzano tomato sauce, Portobello & brown mushrooms, zucchini, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, corn, mozzarella, and a drizzle of balsamic reduction.
Offered: All the time
The Blenheim Pub
3293 West 4th Ave, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 736-0212
Web:http://www.blenheimpub.com/
Twitter @theblenheimpub
Instagram @theblenheimpub
La Ruota Pizzeria
Bulgogi Pizza
Price: 14″ Medium $17.75, 18″ Extra Large $24.00 or by the Slice: $2.75
Created by: Chef Artus Sukru
Description: A Korean-Italian Pizza is the new addition to La Ruota Pizzeria’s menu, and has quickly become the most popular meat pizza option in short time with simple yet delicious.
Ingredients: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Mozzarella, Fior di Latte, Grana Padano, Rib-eye Beef, Mushroom, Red Onion, Chilli Flakes, Olive Oil.
Offered: All the time
La Ruota Pizzeria
1168 The High Street, Coquitlam
Tel: (604) 474-1070
Twitter @laruotapizza
Instagram @laruotapizza
Novo Pizzeria
Fennel Sausage Pizza
Price: $21
Created by: Novo Pizza team
Description: This pizza is all about simple ingredients. The base is a classic Margherita which is then topped with our house made fennel sausage. The crust is filled with a ricotta di bufala and Malden salt giving it a buttery texture. Out of our Apple wood fired oven we lightly drizzle it with Rosemary oil.
Ingredients: San Marazono Pomodoro, Fennel Sausage, Basil, fresh mozzarella, rosemary oil, ricotta.
Offered: All the time
Novo Pizzeria
2118 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 736-2220
Web: http://www.novopizzeria.com/
Twitter: @NOVOPizzeria
Instagram: @novopizzeria
AJ’s Brooklyn Pizza Joint
The Cat’s Meow
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Kristy Ayers
Description: Garlic oil base with fresh mozzarella and grated fontina. Topped with a mushroom confit, spicy panchetta and chili flakes. Cooked with 2 eggs nestled in the middle, and finished with peashoots, lemon oil and truffle salt. Served on our 14 inch crust only!
Ingredients: Olive oil, Garlic, Mushroom, Thyme, Spicy pancetta , Chili flakes, Lemon rind, Peashoot, Egg, Truffle salt, Fresh mozzarella, Fontina, Salt & pepper.
Offered: All the time
AJ’s Brooklyn Pizza Joint
325 E Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 428-5805
Web: http://ajsbrooklynpizzajoint.com/
Twitter @Ajsbklynpizza
Instagram @ajsbklynpizzajoint
Bay Moorings Restaurant
BC Pizza
Price: $21.99
Created by: Chef Danilo
Description: Celebrating British Columbia with Fresh scallops, house double smoked bacon, besciamella, fresh homemade pesto sauce, balsamic caviar.
Ingredients: Fresh scallops, house double smoked bacon, besciamella, fresh homemade pesto sauce, balsamic caviar.
Offered: all the time
Bay Moorings Restaurant
6330 Bay Street, Horeshoe Bay
Tel: (604) 921-8184
Web: http://baymooringsrestaurant.com/
Instagram: @bay_moorings
Al Buco Pizzeria
Venezia
Price: $20
Created by: Pizzaiolo Ralph Funaro
Description: Our freshly made pizzas are authentic Italian and this one is named after the famous city of Venezia full of flavours with ingredients from the region your taste buds will be delighted
Ingredients: Mascarpone, Fior di latte, prosciutto cotto , salami, mushrooms, artichokes, Sicilian mixed olives.
Offered: All the time
Al Buco Pizza
2638 E. Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 253-0765
Twitter @albucopizza
Instagram @albucopizza
Make sure you pick up one of the Pizza 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/pizza-challenge/
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Tara Lee
Writer for Inside Vancouver and other publications.
Twitter: @VanGlutton
Instagram @vanglutton
David Grange
Blogger for BCFoodieBlogger
Twitter: @BCfoodieblogger
Instagram: @BCfoodieblogger
Josh Boettcher
Blogger for https://josheats.com/
Twitter: @josheatstweets
Instagram @itsjosheats
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