Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Crepe Challenge. I have invited restaurants from all over the city to enter their Crepe creations into this challenge, some entered their house recipe and others created a special Crepe creation just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their special Crepe creation on their menu from June 26 – July 19, 2018.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the Crepe creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best crepe creation for the People’s Choice award winners. 

Share your experiences: Social share by tweeting, instagraming or snapchating your photos throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #CrepeChallengeYVR

Voting criteria –  some things to help you judge your favourite crepe 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 crepe creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites

Here are the Crepe creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.

Atlas Steak & Fish

Tableside Flambéed Blood Orange Crepes Suzette

Price: $9 per person, minimum 2 per order.

Created by: Pastry chef Candice Low

Description: French crepe filled with pastry cream, flambéed tableside with gran marnier.

Offered: Available at dinner only

Atlas Steak & Fish

4331 Dominion Street, Burnaby

Tel: (604) 453-0776

Web: http://atlassteakandfish.com/menus/burnaby/

Instagram @atlasburnaby

 

Japanese Crepe SASUKE

Half & Half with Green Tea Ice Cream

Price: $7.50

Created by: Tomohiro Sato

Description: Fresh Strawberry & Banana with Fresh Whipping Cream and Green Tea Ice Cream are wrapped by a special dough

Offered: all the time during Richmond Night Market hours.

Japanese Crepe SASUKE

8351 River Road, Richmond

(inside the Richmond Night Market)

Web: https://www.facebook.com/Japanese-Crepe-Sasuke-Richmond-Night-Market-106974516058610/

Instagram @japanese_crepe_sasuke

 

Me + Crepe

Deluxe Peking Duck Crepe

Price: $12.95

Created by: Me + Crepe team

Description: Our Crepe (Jian Bing) originates from the streets of Northern China hundreds of years ago. It is now one of the most popular grab-and-go breakfast you can find all around China. The original Crepe includes an egg, mixed wheat/bean flour, green onion, cilantro, and some times simple fillings like lettuce and fried fritter. Beijing Duck has been a signature Chinese dish for hundreds of years for foreigners of China. The carefully selected and raised duck is barbecued to perfection using applewood and then sliced by professional chief into thin pieces so that the skin and the meat of the duck remain in one piece.

Inspired by these two famous traditional Chinese dishes, and a little twist of Vancouver, Me and Crepe has created an unique savoury crepe dish that provides nutritional energy and deliciousness for a perfect grab-and-go breakfast. The sizzling barbecued Beijing Duck, cucumber, corn, green onion and special home-made bean paste cause is wrapped inside our traditional Chinese Crepe. The Crepe is made of mixed bean flour that is both nutritional and adds different layers of taste. An egg is then added on top of the crepe, combined with onions and cilantro, and then flipped to heat up to bring out the flavour. An choice of Chinese donut or fried fritter can be added with the Beijing Duck as a perfect partner to fill up your morning hunger.  You will be able to taste hundreds of years of the Chinese chefs’ legacy in just one bite of this uniquely created Chinese fusion savoury crepe.

Offered: From 8:30am until 2:30pm Monday-Friday

Me + Crepe

128-8531 Alexandra Rd, Richmond

589 West Pender Street, Vancouver

27-4429 Kingsway, Burnaby

2-555 Clarke Rd, Coquitlam

Web: http://www.meandcrepe.com/

Instagram @meandcrepe

 

Chouchou Crepes

Madame Vava de Marseille

Price : $10

Created by: Chef/Owner: Nathalie Galin

Madame Vava de Marseille is one of the favourite at Chouchou crêpes food truck.  As traditional recipes travel through generation, chouchou crêpe is truly Brittany style, inspired by my Bretonne grand-Mother Marie. This creation is an explosion of flavours, that remind you the South of France, with the pesto, goat cheese and Tapenade. The crêpe has this seductive texture, crispy on the edges and fondant on the inside. Come and enjoy this truly inspiring Frenchy experience.

Offered: all the time

Chouchou Crepes

Foodtruck

110 Water Street (Gastown) and other locations tba

Web: http://www.chouchoucrepes.com/home.html

Instagram @chouchoucrepes

 

Casablanca Crepe

Casablanca Cheesecake Crepe

Price: $7.95

Created by: Samy Moulay

Description: a creative new style of healthy and crispy Crepe involving Moroccan style Crepe, homemade cheesecake made of homemade Moroccan cheese (Jben), served with a zero sugar chocolate mousse and dark chocolate sauce.

Offered: all the time

Casablanca Crepe

1610 Robson St, unit 108, Vancouver

Web: http://www.casablancacrepedelivery.ca

Instagram: @casablancacrepe

 

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

 

Areta Wong

Blogger of Foodgressing

Twitter: @foodgressing

Instagram: @foodgressing

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Crepe Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from June 26 – July 19, 2018 at https://vancouverfoodster.com/crepe-challenge/