The Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge was a success featuring creations from cafes and restaurants around Vancouver. Each spot featured their creation from July 9 – August 1, 2021. 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.
The Winners are:
1st Place (tie):
{99 points}
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
1st Place (tie):
{99 points}
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
2nd Place:
{98 points}
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
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Iced Summer Drink Creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
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
2nd Place People’s Choice:
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
3rd Place People’s Choice:
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
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: Jay Minter, Shelley Hayashi and Hanson Do.
Thank you to all the cafes that accepted my invitation and featured the Iced Summer Drink Challenge creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning cafes to try their Iced Summer Drink creations! See all the Iced Summer Drink Challenge Entries Here.
By: Richard Wolak