Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Pasta Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their pasta dishes into this challenge, some of the restaurants have created a special pasta creation just for this challenge and others have entered their top choice off their existing menu. Each restaurant will be featuring their pasta creation on their menu from October 8-31, 2020.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the pasta creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best pasta 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 #PastaChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite pasta creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Please VOTE for your favourites between October 8-31, 2020.
Here are the Pasta creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Casereccio Foods
West Coast Nonna’s Ravioli
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Alex
Description: Handmade spinach ravioli stuffed with BC wild sockeye salmon and creamy mascarpone cheese, served on a bed of velvety caviar cream.
Ingredients: Spinach (For the Pasta Sheets); BC Wild Sockeye Salmon; Mascarpone Cheese; Whipping cream, Caviar, Parmigiano.
Available: Lunch and Dinner daily
Casereccio Foods
2480 Vine Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-734-4440
Instagram @casereccio_foods
Doppio Zero Pizza
Gnocchi in
Price: $19
Created by: the team
Description: Gnocchi in Gorgonzola truffle sauce with guanciale (pork cheeks)
Available: Lunch and Dinner, Tuesday – Sunday
Doppio Zero Pizza
1655 Como Lake Ave, Coquitlam
Tel: (778) 355-5333
Web: http://doppiozeropizza.ca/
Instagram @doppiozeropizza00
Artusi Restaurant
Tagliatelle Dolce Forte
Price: $21
Created by: Chef Delbert Cirfera
Description: Tagliatelle Dolce Forte is handmade cacao pasta with wild boar & dark chocolate sauce, Parmigiano cream, pine nuts, chestnuts and fresh rosemary.
Origins of the traditional recipe date back to the Court of Medici, during the Renaissance (16th Century) – the dish being an original personal inspiration to Chef Delbert Cirfera of Artusi. This pasta changed minds wirth artistic flavour creativity, during a time when the world was hungry for beauty and illumination. Wild boar is fried to caramelize, then slow-braised for tender richness. Dolceforte Sauce is traditionally flavoured with juice of the cooked boar, vegetables, spices and red wine – then finished with nuts and dark bitter chocolate. We have given this centuries-old idea a new contemporary design, during a time when restoration of inspiration is needed once again.
Chef Cirfera has not only prepared sauce with delectable dark chocolate, but has also hand-made luxurious cacao noodles! Satisfyingly sweet and strong flavours are perfect cool weather comfort, with robust textures and an uncommonly delicious combination of ingredients.
Available: Tuesday – Sunday for dinner for dine-in, takeout and delivery
Artusi Restaurant
412 6th Street, New Westminster
Tel: (604) 553-9922
Website: http://www.artusirestaurant.com/
Twitter: @ArtusiNewWest
Instagram @artusirestaurant
Robba Da Matti
Pasta Ritorna alla Norma
Price: Lunch $18 and dinner $22
Created by: The team
Description: Autumn harvest roasted veg with a blush of tomato and shaved ricotta salata
Available: Lunch and Dinner (Yaletown) and Dinner only (Westend), also available for takeout.
Robba Da Matti
1127 Mainland Street, Vancouver
Phone:
Web: http://www.robbadamatti.com/
Twitter: @Robba_daMatti
Instagram: @robba_damatti
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Robba Da Matti
1906 Haro Street, Vancouver
Phone: 604-423-3553
Twitter: @Robba_daMatti
Instagram: @robba_damatti
Orto Artisan Pasta
Fall in Newfoundland
Price: $32
Created by: The team
Description: crab and lobster penne gratin, lobster bisque
Available: Lunch and Dinner, Tuesday – Saturday
Orto Artisan Pasta
1600 Mackay Rd, North Vancouver
Phone: (604) 929-0203
Web: http://ortoartisanpasta.com/
Instagram @ortoartisanpasta
Make sure you pick up one of the Pasta Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from October 8-31 2020 https://vancouverfoodster.com/pasta-challenge/
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Jacqueline Chui
Food and Travel Blogger
Twitter @jacquelinechui
Instagram @jacquelinechui
Rose Lin
Instagramer and Influencer
Instagram @with.rose.love
Yuki No
Blogger for Pekopekolife
Twitter: @Pekopekolife
Instagram: @pekopekolife