Vancouver Chicken Wings Challenge 2022 Winners

The  Vancouver Foodster Chicken Wings Challenge was another success featuring chicken wings creations from restaurants around Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their chicken wings creation from June 8 – July 3, 2022. 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.

Each media judge will have scored the creation with a maximum of 40 points as follows: Overall Taste 20 points, Originality and Uniqueness 10 points, Presentation and Appearance 10 points). The total number of points a chicken wings creation could earn is 120 points.

The Winners are: 

1st Place:

{102 points}

The Copper Coil

Smoked Hot Blonde Chicken Wings

Price $19.88

Created by: Marcie Brenton

Description: Cold smoked BC wings, tossed in our Hot Blonde sauce, crudite and house jalapeno ranch.

Ingredients: hot sc, blue cheese, roasted garlic. Ranch: sour cream, mayo, garlic, tarragon, dill, grainy mustard and jalapenos.

The Copper Coil

37996 Cleaveland Avenue, Squamish

Tel:(604) 892-0646

Web:https://www.thecoppercoil.com/

Instagram @thecoppercoil

2nd Place:

{92 points}

Backcountry Brewing

Maple Glaze Wings

Price: $17

Created by: The Backcountry Kitchen Team

Description: Take flight with our house-made, twice-cooked, beer-brined wings, tossed in a savoury Maple Ginger glaze made from scratch with authentic Quebec maple syrup and fresh ginger, garnished with green onion & sesame seeds.

Ingredients: Brined chicken wings, Quebec Maple Syrup, white onion, crushed fresh ginger, green onion and sesame.

Backcountry Brewing

405-1201 Commercial Way, Squamish

Tel:(604) 567-2739

Web: https://www.backcountrybrewing.com/

Twitter @Backcountry604

Instagram @backcountrybrewing

3rd Place:

{68 points}

Win Win Chick-N

BBQ Wings

Price: $12.99 (make it a meal add $4.50 plus tax comes with one side of our Filipino sweet style macaroni pasta or our hand cut double fried french fries)

Created by: the team

Description: mix of 8 – 10 pcs. wingettes and drumettes marinated with our secret sauce hand breaded with our in house spices, we toss it on our new Southern Style barbecue sauce mix try it it’s simply delicious.

Win Win Chick-N

12160 First Ave, Richmond

Tel: 778 297 5818

Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/

Instagram @winwinchickn2018

And

Win Win Chick-N

8197 Main Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 423-4818

Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/

Instagram @winwinchickn2018

In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Chicken Wings creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.

The Winners are:

1st Place People’s Choice:

Win Win Chick-N

BBQ Wings

Price: $12.99 (make it a meal add $4.50 plus tax comes with one side of our Filipino sweet style macaroni pasta or our hand cut double fried french fries)

Created by: the team

Description: mix of 8 – 10 pcs. wingettes and drumettes marinated with our secret sauce hand breaded with our in house spices, we toss it on our new Southern Style barbecue sauce mix try it it’s simply delicious.

Win Win Chick-N

12160 First Ave, Richmond

Tel: 778 297 5818

Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/

Instagram @winwinchickn2018

And

Win Win Chick-N

8197 Main Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 423-4818

Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/

Instagram @winwinchickn2018

2nd Place People’s Choice:

The Copper Coil

Smoked Hot Blonde Chicken Wings

Price $19.88

Created by: Marcie Brenton

Description: Cold smoked BC wings, tossed in our Hot Blonde sauce, crudite and house jalapeno ranch.

Ingredients: hot sc, blue cheese, roasted garlic. Ranch: sour cream, mayo, garlic, tarragon, dill, grainy mustard and jalapenos.

The Copper Coil

37996 Cleaveland Avenue, Squamish

Tel:(604) 892-0646

Web:https://www.thecoppercoil.com/

Instagram @thecoppercoil

3rd Place People’s Choice:

Backcountry Brewing

Maple Glaze Wings

Price: $17

Created by: The Backcountry Kitchen Team

Description: Take flight with our house-made, twice-cooked, beer-brined wings, tossed in a savoury Maple Ginger glaze made from scratch with authentic Quebec maple syrup and fresh ginger, garnished with green onion & sesame seeds.

Ingredients: Brined chicken wings, Quebec Maple Syrup, white onion, crushed fresh ginger, green onion and sesame

Backcountry Brewing

405-1201 Commercial Way, Squamish

Tel:(604) 567-2739

Web: https://www.backcountrybrewing.com/

Twitter @Backcountry604

Instagram @backcountrybrewing

Our Media judges for this challenge were  David Grange, Maggi Mei, and Yuki No.

Thank you to the chefs, restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their chicken wings on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.

I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Chicken Wings creations! See all the Chicken Wings creations here.

By: Richard Wolak