Vancouver Foodster 8th Taco Challenge

Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Taco Challenge. Restaurants and food trucks from all over the city were invited to enter their taco creations into this challenge, most have created a special taco creation just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their tacos on their menu from May 6-30, 2021.

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

Voting criteria –  some things to help you judge your favourite taco creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.

Just remember to VOTE for your favourites

NOTE: Due to the current Covid-19 inside dining restaurant restrictions, the taco creations in this challenge will be offered by Patio dining (where applicable), Takeout and Delivery as noted. (Once the governments dining restrictions change the taco challenge dining will be adjusted).

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

La Cerveceria Astilleros

Beef Barbacoa Taco

Price: $5.00

Created by: Chef TJ Conwi

Description: guajillo pepper slow-braised beef short ribs finished with our “Acan Chufa Horchata Porter”

Ingredients: Pulled beef, Horchata Porter beer, shredded cabbage, diced tomatoes, diced onions, salsa roja, and pickled jalapeno.

Offered: all the time

Available for patio dining and take-out orders (dine-in will resume once the government restrictions end)

La Cerveceria Astilleros

226 Esplanade E, North Vancouver

Tel:

Web: https://www.cerveceria-astilleros.com/menu

Instagram @lacerveceriaastilleros

Baja’s Food

Surf and Turf Taco Duo

Price: $15

Created by: Chef Luis Ponce

Description: Braised Pork Belly taco with Baja’s Food’s curated dry rub: black pepper, oregano, cumin and epazote. Braised. Finished with a roasted tomatillo verde puree. Corn tortilla, chicharron dust, cilantro, red onion and cucumber pickle. Red chile morita orange coulis.

And the Bajas’s Fish Taco a deep-fried battered red snapper. Corn or flour tortilla, coleslaw, mango pico de gallo, red onion, and cucumber pickle. Red chile morita orange coulis, and avocado crema.

Ingredients:

Pork Belly Taco: pork belly, salt, oregano, epazote, black pepper, tomatillo, garlic, onion, pork lard.

Fish taco:  red snapper, salt, pepper, flour, carbonated water, mustard, baking powder, oregano, garlic and onion powder, cumin, avocados, lime.

Offered: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm

Available: takeout and delivery by uber eat and doordash.

Baja’s Food

302 Industrial Avenue (Pickup location)

Tel:778-926-7089

Web:https://bajasfood.com/

Instagram @bajasfoodcom

Lucha Libre Truck

Chilorio Especial

Price: $4.50

Created by: Esteban Cuevas

Description: It’s a 4-inch tortilla made in a comal with a bed of cheese and chilorio (Pulled pork cooked in adobo cooked for 7 hours) topped with mermelada (red salsa with chile de Arbol and chile Morita) and us Jardin (cilantro and onion).

Ingredients:

Offered: Lunch and dinner on the days the truck is operating

Available: Takeout only

Lucha Libre Truck

(rotates locations)

Web:https://luchalibretruck.ca/

Instagram @luchalibretruck

Little Mexico Cantina

El Pulpo

Price: $6

Created by: Chef Bruno Prada

Description: El Pulpo (the octopus) is a unique taco with the tastes of the seas. Created in Steveston village by the water, the natural habitat of this authentic species of the sea. El pulpo with his long tentacles is inviting everyone to little mexico cantina to join a lovely experience.

Ingredients: Soft corn tortilla topped with chipotle mayo, smoke paprika octopus, dry chorizo, corn salsa, pickle onion and cilantro.

Offered: all the time

Available: Takeout and delivery

Little Mexico Cantina

3131 Chatham St #150, Richmond

Tel:(604) 272-5123

Web:https://www.littlemexicocantina.ca/

Instagram: @littlemexicocantina

Guacamole Mexican Grill

Rajas Taco

Price: $14 (order of 3) or $4.66 each

Created by: the team

Description: The Rajas taco is a traditional home favorite, simple in composition yet full of flavor.  It’s main ingredient is the Poblano Chile which can be known to be spicy but more often than not mild. So the flavor varies from taco to taco. The taco is a traditional Mexican Recipe

Ingredients Smoked Poblano Chile, corn, Cream base sauce, Premium Mozzarella cheese.

Offered: Takeout – Monday to Wed 4 PM to 8PM, Fri 4 PM to 8PM, Sat and Sun 11:30 AM to 8 PM

Guacamole Mexican Grill

13646 Grosvenor Rd, Surrey

Tel: (604) 580-0840

Web: www.guacmexgrill.ca

Instagram @guacmexgrill

Hugo’s Churros & Tacos

(photo and details to come)

Price:

Created by: Dan Garcia

Description:

Offered: All the time

Hugo’s Churros

7899 Templeton Station Rd, Richmond

Web: http://hugoschurros.com/

Twitter: @Hugoschurros

Instagram: hugoschurros

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

Tara Lee

Writer for Inside Vancouver and other publications.

Twitter: @VanGlutton

Instagram @vanglutton

Shelley Hayashi

Influencer/Concierge Les Clefs d’Or Concierge

Twitter: @shelleyhayashi

Instagram: @shelleyhayashi

Yuki No

Blogger for Pekopekolife

Twitter: @Pekopekolife

Instagram: @pekopekolife

Make sure you check out the Taco Challenge postcards which will be at the restaurants and food truck. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at https://vancouverfoodster.com/taco-challenge/

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