Welcome to the 5th 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 4-28, 2019.
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 4-28, 2019.
Here are the Pizza creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Firecrust Neapolitan Pizzeria

Bacon Mac and Cheese Pizza
Bacon Mac and Cheese Pizza
Price: $13.95
Created by: the Firecrust team
Description: Hand stretched, authentic Neapolitan style crust made with “00” Caputo flour, mixed with some comfort food! Crispy bacon, baked Macaroni and Cheese topped with more shredded cheddar cheese. Served with a side of coleslaw.
Ingredients: bacon, cheese, macaroni
Offered: All the time
Firecrust Neapolitan Pizzeria
808 Davie Street, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 379-9646
Web: https://www.firecrustpizzeria.com/
Twitter @firecrustdavie
Instagram @firecrustdavie
Mordimi Bite of Italy

Boscaiola
Boscaiola
Price: $20
Created by: Chef Luca Colasanti
Description: A walk in the Italian Forest
Ingredients: Italian Black truffle, potatoes, mushrooms, Asiago cheese and fior di latte. Garnish with rosemary and pea shoots.
Offered: all the time Tuesday – Sunday.
Mordimi Bite of Italy
2638 E Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 253-0765
Web: http://mordimi.ca/
Instagram @mordimibiteofitaly
AJ’s Brooklyn Pizza Joint

Detroit Red Top
Detroit Red Top
Price: $33
Created by: Chef Anthony Caridi
Description: Detroit-style pizza was invented in the 1940s by Gus Guerra, the owner of Buddy’s Rendezvous. It’s rectangular, thick, and fluffy like a Sicilian pizza and is framed by a border of crispy golden brown cheese that tastes like the best part of a grilled cheese sandwich — the stuff that leaks out of the edge and gets toasted in the pan.
What makes this style unique are the two cheeses, white cheddar and mozza, which are piled extra high up the sides of the pan to encourage that charred effect; the butter used to grease the pan; and the pan itself. Legend has it that Gus came up with the idea of using heavy, square blue-steel pans originally designed to clean the oil from tools in high-pressure gas ovens in factories. How Motor City is that?
Ingredients: AJS ground tomato sauce ( Sauce is applied after the pizza is cooked), Pinch of fine sea salt, Pinch of dried oregano, 7 ounces Mozza Cheese, shredded, 7 ounces white cheddar cheese, Grated Pecorino Romano cheese, for dusting, Dried oregano, for dusting, Garlic oil for drizzling, Pepperoni Cups to top it off.
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
Backcountry Brewing

I pity the Falafool
I pity the Falafool
Price: $17
Created by: Chef Artie McGee
Description: Inspired by the classic falafel sandwich, roasted garlic tahini sauce, falafel feta, halloumi cheese, pickled vegetables, mint yogurt
Ingredients: Roasted garlic tahini: tahini sauce, roasted garlic cilantro, cream, Feta, Halloumi, Pickled vegetable: champagne vinegar, tomato, red onion, cucumber, sugar, Mint yogurt: greek yogurt, mint, lemon, Falafel: English peas, chic peas, parsley, lemon, garlic, cilantro, cumin, smoke paprika. Garnish: toasted sesame seeds and mint
Offered: All the time
Backcountry Brewing
405-1201 Commercial Way, Squamish
Web: https://www.backcountrybrewing.com/
Tel:(604) 567-2739
Twitter @Backcountry604
Instagram @backcountrybrewing
Manoush’eh

Manoush’eh Pizza
Manoush’eh Pizza
Price: $14.99
Created by: Chef George
Description: Middle Eastern inspired 12 inch pizza with our House pizza sauce, topped with mozzarella cheese, green peppers, fresh mushroom, black olives, fresh Roma tomatoes slices and a signature of home made Akkawi cheese.
Ingredients: House pizza sauce (tomatoes fresh mushrooms oregano olive oil black pepper and small pieces of fresh onion) mozzarella cheese green peppers fresh mushroom black olives fresh Roma tomatoes slices and a signature of home made Akkawi cheese
Offered: All the time
Manoush’eh
620 Davie Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 440-4402
Web: https://www.manousheh.ca/
Instagram @manoushehbc
Il Posto

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
Price: $19
Created by: Chef Terry Pichor
Description: A glorious Italian pizza pie with our signature meatball on top of the red sauce base pizza that has been topped off with sliced meatballs, caramelized onion, caciocavallo, pecorino, basil, oregano, finished with garlic focaccia crumb.
Ingredients: red sauce, sliced meatballs, caramelized onion, caciocavallo, pecorino, basil, oregano, finished with garlic focaccia crumb.
Offered: Tuesday – Sunday dinner only.
Il Posto
4866 Delta Street, Ladner
Tel: (604) 946-1300
Web: https://www.ilpostoresto.com/
Instagram @ilpostoresto
Piva Modern Italian

Rustic Italian
Rustic Italian
Price: $20
Created by: Executive Chef, Subraaz Abdullah
Description: A pizza that brings the Rusticness of Italy into the Moderness of Piva.
Ingredients: Ricotta, Caramelized Onion, Wild Boar Meatball, Blue cheese, Arugula, Mushroom
Offered: To be enjoyed at lunch and dinner.
Piva Modern Italian
787 Columbia Street, New Westminster
Phone: (604) 522-0221
Web: https://pivarestaurant.ca/
Twitter: @PivaRestaurant
Instagram: @pivamodernitalian
Sopra Sotto Pizzeria

Contadina
Contadina
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Enrico Fratoni
Description:
Ingredients:Taleggio cheese, smoked pancetta, cherry tomatoes, mixed mushrooms and green onions.
Offered: Every day during lunch and dinner
Sopra Sotto Pizzeria
1510 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Phone: (604) 251-7586
Web: http://www.soprasottovancouver.com/
Instagram @soprasotto.vancouver
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Sopra Sotto Pizzeria
4022 Hastings Street, Burnaby
Tel: (604) 423-3310
Web: http://www.soprasottovancouver.com/
Instagram @soprasotto.vancouver
Pizza Carano

Leek with Saffron Cream Pizza
Leek with Saffron Cream Pizza
Price: $20
Created by: Chef Trevor Hagenbuch
Description: Our White Sauce base of Grana Padano and Mascarpone Cheese mixed with the addition of a Saffron Tea, match-sticked roasted Leeks, Gelderman Farms Bacon, Calabrese Peppers, and topped with fresh Dill.
Ingredients: White Sauce base of Grana Padano, Mascarpone Cheese, a Saffron Tea, match-sticked roasted Leeks, Gelderman Farms Bacon, Calabrese Peppers, fresh Dill.
Offered: Daily 5-10pm
Pizza Carano
4241 Fraser St, Vancouver
Tel: 604-877-1270
Web: http://www.pizzacarano.com/
Twitter: @PizzaCarano
Instagram @PizzaCarano
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
Andrew Chan
Blogger and Photographer
Twitter: @eatwithmao
Instagram: @eatwithmao
Maggi Mei
Blogger and Instagrammer
Twitter: @mag_mei
Instagram: @magmei