Vancouver Iced Summer Drink Challenge Winners 2022

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 7 – 31, 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.

The Winners are: 

1st Place:

{112 points}

Aiyaohno Cafe

Iced Sencha Tea with Kinome and Guava

Price: $7.50

Created by: Greg Uyeda & Bev Tsang

Description: Cold brewed sencha green tea shaken with lightly salted fresh guava puree and topped with a foamed kinome infusion. Kinome are the young leaves of the Japanese sansho pepper tree and they have a very distinctive herbal/citrusy aroma.

Aiyaohno Cafe

425 Carrall St. (visit us at the takeout window), Vancouver

Web: www.aiyaohno.com

Instagram @aiyaohno.cafe

2nd Place:

{99 points}

Trees Cheesecake & Organic Coffee

Grand Berry Frappe

Price: $6.15

Created by: Amigo Wang

Description: The Grand Berry Frappe is a simple recipe, taking a lot of fun takes on blended coffee. The perfect balance of raspberry and chocolate, with a unique coffee flavour, this Iced Summer Drink combines everything for a smooth coffee aftertaste. Presentation speaks for itself and makes the drink even more special.

Ingredients:- Milk, Ice, Dark Chocolate sauce, Raspberry and Hazelnut syrup, single-shot espresso

Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee

450 Granville Street

Phone (604) 684-5022

1160 Davie Street |

Phone (604) 633-0121

930 Burrard St

Phone:

5078 Joyce St

Phone:

Web: https://treescoffee.com

Twitter: @TreesOrganic

Instagram: @treescoffee

3rd Place:

{97 points}

Kits Beach Coffee Co.

Sea Salted Caramel Cold Brew

Price: $5.50

Created by: James Boileau

Description: The perfect caffeinated sweet, salty and cold drink for your sunny beach day.

Ingredients: Cold Brew coffee (we make our own), housemade salted caramel sauce, housemade vanilla bean cold foam (Oat milk alt), topped with Maldon Sea Salt

Kits Beach Coffee Co.

1945 Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver

Tel:

Web: https://www.kitsbeachcoffee.com/

Instagram @kitsbeachcoffee

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

Grand Berry Frappe

Price: $6.15

Created by: Amigo Wang

Description: The Grand Berry Frappe is a simple recipe, taking a lot of fun takes on blended coffee. The perfect balance of raspberry and chocolate, with a unique coffee flavour, this Iced Summer Drink combines everything for a smooth coffee aftertaste. Presentation speaks for itself and makes the drink even more special.

Ingredients:- Milk, Ice, Dark Chocolate sauce, Raspberry and Hazelnut syrup, single-shot espresso

Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee

450 Granville Street

Phone (604) 684-5022

1160 Davie Street |

Phone (604) 633-0121

930 Burrard St

Phone:

5078 Joyce St

Phone:

Web: https://treescoffee.com

Twitter: @TreesOrganic

Instagram: @treescoffee

2nd Place People’s Choice (tie):

Delany’s Coffee House

Salted Caramel Chiller

Price: 12 oz: $4.95.  20oz : $5.45

Created by: Medha Bhatt-Manager of their Lynn Valley location.

Description: A sweet hit of summer. The Salted Caramel Chiller is a blended refreshment with our Delanys espresso, sweet notes of caramel and topped off with our famous chocolate whipcream.

Ingredients: Milk, Espresso, Ice, Salted Caramel, Caramel sauce,  Secret recipe of Chocolate whipcream.

Delany’s Coffee House

1105 Denman Street, Vancouver

3099 Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver

169-1277 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver

2424 Marine Drive, West Vancouver

Web: https://www.delanyscoffee.com/

Instagram @delanyscoffee

2nd Place People’s Choice (tie):

Kits Beach Coffee Co.

Sea Salted Caramel Cold Brew

Price: $5.50

Created by: James Boileau

Description: The perfect caffeinated sweet, salty and cold drink for your sunny beach day.

Ingredients: Cold Brew coffee (we make our own), housemade salted caramel sauce, housemade vanilla bean cold foam (Oat milk alt), topped with Maldon Sea Salt

Offered: all the time

Kits Beach Coffee Co.

1945 Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver

Tel:

Web: https://www.kitsbeachcoffee.com/

Instagram @kitsbeachcoffee

3rd Place People’s Choice:

Aiyaohno Cafe

Iced Sencha Tea with Kinome and Guava

Price: $7.50

Created by: Greg Uyeda & Bev Tsang

Description: Cold brewed sencha green tea shaken with lightly salted fresh guava puree and topped with a foamed kinome infusion. Kinome are the young leaves of the Japanese sansho pepper tree and they have a very distinctive herbal/citrusy aroma.

Aiyaohno Cafe

425 Carrall St. (visit us at the takeout window), Vancouver

Web: www.aiyaohno.com

Instagram @aiyaohno.cafe

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: Corey Lee, Hanson Do and Karina Pangilinan

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