Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Fries Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their Fries creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their Crazy Fries creations on their menu from February 7 – March 3, 2019.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the fries creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best crazy fries 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 #FriesChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets/instagram during the challenge.

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

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

Hopcott Meats

Chicken Pot Poutine

Price: $9.75

Description:  House cut fries, topped with cheese curds, gravy & Chicken Pot Pie filling with locally raised rotisserie chicken.  No Added Gluten

Created by: Chef Jesse Ho

Offered: Every day from 10:30 to 4:00

Hopcott Meats

18385 Old Dewdney Trunk Road, Pitt Meadows

Tel: 604.465.7799

Web: http://www.hopcottmeats.ca/

Twitter @HopcottFarms

Instagram @hopcottfarms

 

Donnellan’s Chipper

Irish Chip Trio

Price: $12

Description:  House cut fries, 3 signature chips (fries) creations from Ireland combined into one dish, that includes curry cheese fries, garlic cheese fries and taco fries.

Created by: the team

Offered: All the time

Donnellan’s Chipper

1224 Granville Street, Vancouver

Tel:

Web: https://www.facebook.com/donnellanschipper/

Instagram @donnellanschipper

 

BCD Academy

Coco-Frites

Price: $12

Created by: Chef Parinya Loptson and Chef Sadapphin Phothong

Description: Long, coconut fries topped with salted coconut caramel sauce garnish with chocolate net and serve along side with avocado ice cream.

Offered: Lunch only.

Bcd Academy

20542 Fraser Hwy #107

Langley

Tel: (778) 242-1344

Web: https://bcdacademy.ca/

Instagram @bcdacademy

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Fries 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:

Tara Lee

Writer for Inside Vancouver and other publications.

Twitter: @VanGlutton

Instagram: @VanGlutton

 

Josh Boettcher

Blogger for https://josheats.com/

Twitter: @josheatstweets

Instagram @itsjosheats

 

Deanna Woo

Blogger and Instagrammer

Instagram @deannawoo