Vancouver Negroni Challenge Winners

The Vancouver Foodster Negroni Challenge was a great success featuring unique creations at restaurants around Metro Vancouver.  Each restaurant featured their creation on their menu from September 9 – October 2, 2022 and their customers voted for their favourites daily throughout the challenge for their People’s Choice favourites. 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:

{114 points}

Resurrection Spirits

Il Post Pisolino Negroni [The Post Nap Negroni]

Price: $15

Created by: Shawn Bachynski

Description:  Soft coconut aromatics, with espresso undertones mixed with the bittersweet Campari, then perfectly rounded out and complimented with the blend of the herbaceous, floral, roasted notes of the Amaro, and the bittersweet notes of vanilla and orange from the Carpano Antica Vermouth. Perfect as a tasty pick me up after a pleasant afternoon nap, easing into a calm fall evening.

Ingredients: Coconut fat washed Resurrection Gin, Espresso infused Campari, Amaro Montenegro, Giuseppe Carpano Antica Vermouth

Garnish: Toasted Coconut and Espresso Beans

Available: Thursday – Saturday all day.

Resurrection Spirits

1672 Franklin Street

Tel:(604) 253-0059

Web: https://www.resurrectionspirits.ca/

Instagram @resurrectionspirits

2nd Place:

{99 points}

Stock & Supply

The Butterfly Effect

Price: $19.50

Created by: William Wong

Description: We wanted to feature an exciting take on a Negroni by using our house-made butterfly pea syrup to display a vibrant hue of purple. It has bright and delicate floral notes that emphasizes the flavors of Gin.

 Ingredients: Long Table London Gin, Martini Bianco, Martini Dry, Grapefruit infused Butterfly Pea Flower Syrup

Available: Daily 3pm until 11pm

Stock & Supply

(inside the Delta by Marriott Vancouver Suites Hotel)

550 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Tel: (604) 899-3049

Web:https://stockandsupplyvancouver.com/

Instagram @stockandsupplyvan

3rd Place:

{98 points}

16 West Restaurant

Negroni Bastardo

Price: $13

Created by: Created by John Morris (goes by Morris)

Description: The style and character of the Caparinet with the playfulness and humour of the Sbagliato!

Ingredients: London Dry Gin, Campari, Vermouth Rosso, Vermouth Bianco, Prosecco, Orange Bitters, Orange, lemon

Available: Tuesday – Sunday from 4-10pm

16 West Restaurant

140 16th St W, North Vancouver

Tel: (604) 988-7561

Web: https://www.16westrestaurant.com/

Instagram @16westrestaurant

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

The Winners are:

1st Place People’s Choice:

Diva at the Met

Negroni Blues

Price: $19

Created by: bartender Karolina Sliwinska

The Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver is proud to offer the Negroni Blues, crafted with Canadian-made, butterfly pea blossom infused, Empress 1908 Gin to create colour and softness, Aperol to add an herbal touch, and finished with white Vermouth for balance.

Ingredients: Empress Gin, Aperol, Bianco vermouth, sugar cube, blueberries, blueberry bitters

Garnish: sugared blueberries, Lemon twist

Available: all the time.

Diva at the Met

(inside the Metropolitan Hotel)

645 Howe St, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 602-7788

Web: https://www.opentable.ca/r/diva-at-the-met-metropolitan-hotel-vancouver

Instagram @diva_met

2nd Place People’s Choice (tie):

16 West Restaurant

Negroni Bastardo

Price: $13

Created by: Created by John Morris (goes by Morris)

Description: The style and character of the Caparinet with the playfulness and humour of the Sbagliato!

Ingredients: London Dry Gin, Campari, Vermouth Rosso, Vermouth Bianco, Prosecco, Orange Bitters, Orange, lemon

Available: Tuesday – Sunday from 4-10pm

16 West Restaurant

140 16th St W, North Vancouver

Tel: (604) 988-7561

Web: https://www.16westrestaurant.com/

Instagram @16westrestaurant

2nd Place People’s Choice (tie):

Resurrection Spirits

Il Post Pisolino Negroni [The Post Nap Negroni]

Price: $15

Created by: Shawn Bachynski

Description:  Soft coconut aromatics, with espresso undertones mixed with the bittersweet Campari, then perfectly rounded out and complimented with the blend of the herbaceous, floral, roasted notes of the Amaro, and the bittersweet notes of vanilla and orange from the Carpano Antica Vermouth. Perfect as a tasty pick me up after a pleasant afternoon nap, easing into a calm fall evening.

Ingredients: Coconut fat washed Resurrection Gin, Espresso infused Campari, Amaro Montenegro, Giuseppe Carpano Antica Vermouth

Garnish: Toasted Coconut and Espresso Beans

Available: Thursday – Saturday all day.

Resurrection Spirits

1672 Franklin Street

Tel:(604) 253-0059

Web: https://www.resurrectionspirits.ca/

Instagram @resurrectionspirits

3rd Place People’s Choice:

Stock & Supply

The Butterfly Effect

Price: $19.50

Created by: William Wong

Description: We wanted to feature an exciting take on a Negroni by using our house-made butterfly pea syrup to display a vibrant hue of purple. It has bright and delicate floral notes that emphasizes the flavors of Gin.

 Ingredients: Long Table London Gin, Martini Bianco, Martini Dry, Grapefruit infused Butterfly Pea Flower Syrup

Available: Daily 3pm until 11pm

Stock & Supply

(inside the Delta by Marriott Vancouver Suites Hotel)

550 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Tel: (604) 899-3049

Web:https://stockandsupplyvancouver.com/

Instagram @stockandsupplyvan

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: Maggi Mei, Shelley Hayashi and Yuki No.

Thank you to all the chefs, bartenders and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured the Negroni Challenge creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.

I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Negroni creations!

By: Richard Wolak