The Vancouver Foodster Croissant Challenge was a great success featuring unique creations at bakeries anc cafes around Metro Vancouver. Each bakery featured their creation on their menu from June 4-28, 2020. and their customers voted for their favourites daily throughout the challenge for their People’s Choice favourites.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
{115 points}
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
2nd Place:
{107 points}
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
3rd Place (tie):
{94 points}
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
3rd Place (tie):
{94 points}
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
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Croissant Creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
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
2nd Place People’s Choice:
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
3rd Place People’s Choice:
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
Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each judge who tasted each creation with a rigorous process based on taste, originality/uniqueness and presentation/appearance.
Each media judge scored each creation with a maximum of 40 points as follows: Overall Taste 20 points, Originality and Uniqueness 10 points, Presentation and Appearance 10 points. The highest number of points a challenge creation could have been awarded is 120 points.
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Deanna Woo, David Grange and Sophia Hu
Thank you to the chefs and establishments that accepted my invitation and featured their croissants on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning places to try their Croissants creations! See the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak