Welcome to the next Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge. I have invited cafes from all over the city to enter their Iced Summer Drink creations into this challenge, some have entered their most popular creation from their menu and others created a special Iced Summer Drink creation just for this challenge. Each cafe will be featuring their special creation on their menu from July 9 – August 1, 2021.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the Iced Summer Drink creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best Ice Summer Drink creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Social share by tweeting, instagraming or snapchating your photos throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #IcedSummerDrinkChallengeYVR
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite iced summer drink creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to taste the different drink creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the Iced Summer Drink creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Bambu
Hawaiian Kylee
Price: $6.50
Created by: Kylee
Description: Hawaiian Basil fresh fruit tea
Ingredients: Jasmine green tea, basil seeds, passion fruit juice, pineapple juice, fresh strawberry/kiwi/mango chunks, fresh orange slices, ice
Offered: All the time
Available: UberEats/ Skipthedishes/doordash/Fantuan
Bambu
1090 Kingsway, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 336-9009
Web:https://bambuvancouver.com/
Instagram @bambuvancouver
Craft Café
Salted Caramel Mocha Float
Price: $7.50
Created by: Mariia Vernigorova and Anna Choi
Description: Beat the heat and let us “float” you away to the caramel sunsets and fresh ocean breezes of South America
Ingredients: Coco salted caramel bean to bar chocolate, single-origin espresso from The Barn, whole milk, vanilla ice cream, raspberries
Offered: all the time
Available: for dine-in and take-out only.
Craft Cafe
960 Quayside Dr Unit 115, New Westminster
Tel:778-655-8305
Web:https://www.craftcafe.ca/
Instagram @craftcafe.ca
Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee
The Refresher
Price: $4
Created by: Barista, Amigo Wang
Description: Beat the heat with this seriously chill cold brew tea. We love this recipe because it’s got a strong tea flavour without being bitter. This refreshing drink combines two summer favourites: Honeybush and Peppermint. This tea holds all the tasty secrets of the mint and the honey-like smell from the Honeybush.
Offered: all the time
Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee
450 Granville Street | Phone (604) 684-5022
1160 Davie Street | Phone (604) 633-0121
970 George Street |604-215-1846
321 Water Street | Phone (604) 633-3880
738 Granville Street |Phone (604) 688-0388
2655 Arbutus Street | Phone (604) 732-0092
1598 West Broadway | Phone 778- 379-4050
Twitter: @TreesOrganic
Instagram: @treescoffee
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Instagram @jminter
Shelley Hayashi
Influencer/Concierge Les Clefs d’Or Concierge
Twitter: @shelleyhayashi
Instagram: @shelleyhayashi
Hanson Do
Blogger for his own Nosh and Nibble blog
Twitter: @hansondee
Instagram @noshandnibble
Make sure you pick up one of the Iced Summer Drink Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from July 9 – August 1, 2021 at https://vancouverfoodster.com/iced-summer-drink-challenge/