Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Taco Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their taco creations into this challenge, most have created a special taco creation just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their tacos on their menu from May 3-27, 2018.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the tacos in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best taco 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 #TacoChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite taco 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 taco creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the Taco dishes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Patron Tacos & Cantina
Caribbean Vibes
Price: $5
Created by: Chef Andres Lopez
Description: Fish Chicharrón Taco with Green plantain tortilla, tilapia chicharrón seasoned with spices, cilantro aioli, topped with mango/habanero/cucumber chutney. Garnished with green & red bell peppers.
Offered: Monday – Friday 12pm -5pm
Patron Tacos & Cantina
265 Robson Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-558-3368
Twitter: @patrontc
Instagram: @patrontc
Hopcott Meats
Yeehaw Taco
Price: $10.50 for 2 tacos, includes fries or salad
Created by: Chef Christina Sepidoza
Description: Ancho chili marinated shredded chicken topped with cowboy caviar, cilantro crema and pickled onions on a whole wheat tortilla.
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
Las Tortas
El Campechano Taco
Price: $9.50
Created by: Chef Moises Toyber
Description: Our version of a Popular Taco in Mexico, a mix of pork and beef combined to a delicious taste. Grilled Sirloin Beef & Chorizo, mixed with bits of crunchy chicharron & nopalitos (cactus leaves), Served on a bed of refried black beans in a Chipotle Tortilla, topped with sweet habanero mango crema, queso fresco, & pico de gallo. Side of Jicama Cucumber Slaw.
Offered: All the time
Las Tortas
3353 Cambie Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-569-1402
Twitter: @LasTortas
Instagram: @lastortascambie
Maizal
Ebi Chamoi
Price: $8.75
Created by: Rodrigo and Nana
Description: Tempura prawns with a mango salsa and umeboshi glaze, all on top of a hibiscus tortilla.
Offered: all the time
Maizal
2815 Main Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 709-0813
Web: https://www.maizalrestaurant.ca/
Twitter: @maizalyvr
Instagram: @maizal_yvr
Hugo’s Mexican Kitchen
Hugo’s Meatless Taco
Price: $4.75
Description: Papas con chorizo vegano, serrano cashew crema, avocado, grilled corn, lemon-pickled onions, cilantro.
Created by: Dan Garcia
Offered: All the time (available at this location after they open on May 11)
Hugo’s Mexican Kitchen
19151 Fraser Highway, Surrey
Tel:
Web:
Instagram @hugosmexicankitchen
and
Hugo’s Tacos & Churros
7899 Templeton Station Rd, Richmond
Twitter: @Hugoschurros
Instagram: @hugoschurros
Offered: All the time
And
Hugo’s Mexican Food
7101 Vedder Rd, Chilliwack
Instagram @hugosmexicankitchen
Offered: All the time
La Cantina Tacos
Gobernador
Price: $4.50
Created by: Chef Eduardo Armando Angulo Salomón, owner of Los Arcos Restaurant in Mazatlan back in 2000. The taco was reproduced in Whistler by our Executive Chef, Candelario Olivares.
Description: Made Named after Francisco Labastida, governor of Sinaloa. In year 2000 a restaurant owner from Mazatlan was informed that the Governor was going to be in town and had made a reservation at his restaurant. He wanted to impress him and asked his Chef to create a special taco for him. A delicious taco with shrimp, melted Oaxaca cheese, peppers and onion, topped with a chile de arbol Sinaloa style salsa was served to the Governor. He was pleasantly happy with the tacos, and asked; “what’s the name of these tacos?”, the restaurant owner let him know that they had been prepared in his honor. The governor immediately replied: They need to be baptized as “Tacos Gobernador!”.
Offered: Lunch & Dinner.
La Cantina Tacos
722 Nelson Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 620-8981
Web: http://tacoslacantina.ca/
Twitter @LaCantinaTacos
Instagram @lacantinatacos
Make sure you pick up one of the Taco Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are here.
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
James Chung
Founder and Editor for his own hellovancity.com
Twitter: @jlchung
Instagram: @hellovancity
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Instagram @jminter
Teresa Ly
Instagramer and influencer
Instagram @teelythefoodie