Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Croissant Challenge. Bakeries and cafes from all over the city were invited to enter their Croissant creations into this challenge. Each bakery and cafe will be featuring their croissant creations on their menu from June 4-28, 2020.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the croissant creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best croissant creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Social media share your photos and messages by instagram, twitter, facebook, tiktok and other platforms throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #CroissantChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your social sharing during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite croissant creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Remember to VOTE for your favourites during the challenge.
Here are the Croissant creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Mon Paris Patisserie
Rubylicious
Price: $5.99
Created by: Elena Krasnova
Description: Freshly baked croissant garnished with mascarpone dipped ganache as fresh local strawberry gel. Dipped in Ruby chocolate.
Offered: Tuesday – Sunday 9am – 5pm (closed Monday’s) –NOTE: For orders of 6 or more please call to pre-order one day in advance,
Mon Paris Patisserie
4396 Beresford Street, Burnaby
Phone: (604) 564-5665
Instagram @monparis.ca
Italia Bakery
The Siciliano
Price: $5.99
Created by: Sam Pero
Description: Our handcrafted all butter croissant filled with our very own pistachio frangipane. Our freshly roasted pistachio our from the Bronte region in Sicily. We spread our frangipane on both halves of the croissant with fresh raspberries between. Top with more frangipane, whole pistachios and double baked to a perfect blend of bitter…sweet…..crunch!! Drizzled in 70% pictachio cream and dusted with icing sugar !
Offered: All the time
Italia Bakery
2828 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604.251.6800
Web: http://www.italiabakery.ca/
Twitter: @italiabakery
Instagram @italiabakery
Daily Delicious
Seafood Shell
Prices: $5.99 each (6 pack price will be $32.32 and 12 pack price will be $61.00)
Created by: the team
Description: Who doesn’t like seafood!? :-). BC is abundant in seafood. So we knew immediately we wanted to use seafood in the croissant. In addition, the croissant has to have spicy flavor. Therefore we came up with the idea of having assorted seafood including snow crab meat, shrimp and salmon etc. in the house made spicy sauce and sitting on the house made mashed potato (to mimic the sands) and in the round shape to represent the shell from the sea.
Offered: on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Daily Delicious
110 – 2811 Number 3 Road, Richmond
Phone: (236) 858-5545
Instagram @dailydeliciousbakery
Small Victory Bread & Coffee
Buckwheat Pain au Chocolat
Price: $6.25
Created by: Small Victory pastry team
Description: Freshly milled buckwheat croissants rolled with Valrhona dark chocolate bannetons.
Offered: All day, everyday
Small Victory Bread & Coffee
1088 Homer Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-899-8892
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram: @sv_bakery
And
Small Victory Bread & Coffee
3077 Granville Street
Phone: (604) 742-1737
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
Make sure you check out the Croissant Challenge postcards which will be either at the bakeries and cafes. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at https://vancouverfoodster.com/croissant-challenge/
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Deanna Woo
Blogger and Instagrammer
Instagram @deannawoo
David Grange
Blogger for BCFoodieBlogger
Twitter: @BCfoodieblogger
Instagram: @BCfoodieblogger
Sophia Hu
Instagramer and Influencer
Instagram @sopheats