Vancouver Foodster Sundae Challenge

Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Sundae Challenge.  Bakeries and cafes from all over the city were invited to enter their Sundae creations into this challenge. Each cafe and bakery will be featuring their Sundae creations on their menu from August 1-25, 2019.

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

Voting criteria –  some things to help you judge your favourite sundae 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 taste the different sundae creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourite

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

 

Uno Gelato

Locura Tropical

Locura Tropical

Price: $9.50

Created by: Gelaterie Maestro Andres Bermudez

Description: Inspired from a classic dessert from Colombia, this elegant version has fruit salad in the bottom mixed with homemade vanilla yogourt and mozzarella cheese, giving the perfect balance between salty and sweet with Black sour cherry sauce.  Frutto di Bosco gelato with fresh berries from the Fraser Valley topped with chocolate crisp pearls and white-dark chocolate rhombus.

Offered: All the time

Uno Gelato

2579 Broadway, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 733-5884

Web: https://www.unogelato.com/

Twitter @unogelatoyvr

Instagram @unogelato.yvr

 

Food by Fanta

WTH!? Sundea

WTH!? Sundae

Price: $15

Created by: Chef Parinya Loptson and Chef Sadapphin Phothong

Description: We started by going back to my childhood memories from Thailand with a “Ruam-Mit” shaved ice dessert that always came with a variety of toppings! We turned it into a sundae following the same ideas but we used a variety of 5 different homemade ice cream flavors with over 10 variety of flavorful toppings – all combined onto a crunchy puff pastry tray. Bring a friend!

Offered: Wednesday to Sunday 11-3 pm

Food by Fanta at BCD Academy

20542 Fraser Hwy #107, Langley

Tel: (604) 427-0166

Web: https://bcdacademy.ca/

Instagram @foodbyfanta

 

The Praguery

BR. BERRY

MR. BERRY

Price: $10

Created by: The Praguery Team

Description: Freshly baked Prague Cones filled with house-made berry filling, vanilla soft serve and topped with house-made raspberry sauce

Type: Freshly Baked Pastry & Soft serve ice cream

Offered: All the time

The Praguery Gastown Store & Food Trucks

221 Abbott Street, Vancouver

Trucks Schedule https://streetfoodapp.com/vancouver/the-praguery

Web: https://praguery.com/

Instagram @thepraguery

Facebook: thepraguery

 

Kumme Café

Cool Me Kumme Sundae

Cool Me Kumme Sundae

Price: $5.50

Created by: Heidi

Description: Summer vibes with coconut and mango ice cream topped with fresh mango cubes and coconut jelly, mango star jelly, & mango popping boba.

Offered: all the time

4)    Ingredients: Coconut and Mango ice cream, Mango star jelly, Coconut jelly, Mango popping boba

Kumme Cafe

1610 Robson Street, Unit 104

Tel: (604) 559-6600

Web: https://www.kummecafe.com/

Instagram @kummecafe

 

Welcome Parlour Ice Cream

Eton Mess Ice Cream Sundae

Eton Mess Ice Cream Sundae

Price: $8

Created by: Ian Widgery

Description: Cold, Soft, Crisp & Sweet. That’s the multi textual summer sundae this summer from Welcome Parlour. Seasonal berries, crisp fresh Meringue, sweet creme anglaise Ice Cream covered in fresh cream with a hint of vanilla.

Type: Ice cream

Offered: All the time

Welcome Parlour Ice Cream

277 8th St E, North Vancouver

Tel: (604) 408-7481

Web: http://welcomeparlour.com/

Twitter: @welcomeparlour ‏

Instagram @welcomeparlour

and

125 Victory Ship Way #126 (The Shipyards)

Twitter: @welcomeparlour 

Instagram @welcomeparlour

 

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

Deanna Woo

Blogger and Instagrammer

Instagram @deannawoo

 

Roanna Young

Instagrammer and blogger

Instagram: @foodiegramca

 

Yuki No

Blogger for Pekopekolife

Twitter: @Pekopekolife

Instagram: @pekopekolife

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Sundae Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from August 1 -25, 2019 https://vancouverfoodster.com/sundae-challenge/

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