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
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
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/