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:
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:
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