Vancouver 9th Annual Burger Challenge

Welcome to the 9th Annual Vancouver Foodster Best Burger Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their burger creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their Burger creations on their menu from November 3-27, 2022.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the burger creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best burger creation for the People’s Choice award winners.

Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #BurgerChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.

Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite burger creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.

How to VOTE :

Look for our Burger challenge posters in each of the participating restaurants.
Scan the QR code and Vote for your favourites from November 3-27, 2022

Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to taste the different burger creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites between November 3-27, 2022.

Here are the Burger creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us

C Prime Modern Italian Steakhouse & Wine Bar

Un-Foiegettable Burger

Price: $32.00

Created by: Chef Behshad Zolnasr

Description: Grilled ½ lb. Patty with bacon, Cheese, Caramelized onion, with a torchon of foie gras, and a brioche bun and crispy onions.

Ingredients: Caramelized onions, Wisconsin Cheddar, Bacon, Crispy onions, Demi-glace, 63-Acre 1/2 lb Burger patty, Mayo, Brioche bun, Rouge A Foie Gras- Whiskey Cured

.Offered: Daily 12pm – 10pm

Available: Dine-in only.

C Prime Modern Italian Steakhouse & Wine Bar

1015 Burrard Street

Tel: 604-684-3474

Web: https://www.cprime.ca/

Instagram @cprimesteak

Stock & Supply

The Stocked Smash Burger

Price: $22

Created by: Lucas Rosenberg

Description: This burger is stocked full of flavor. Hand-made smashed beef patty topped with delicious pork belly to give it a nice crisp. Extra flavor from the curried zucchini pickles and a touch of sweet and smoky from the Smoked Chili Remoulade. Don’t forget about the cheese!

Simple made Awesome!

Ingredients: Smashed Beef Patty, House Pork Belly Crisp, Curry Zucchini Pickles, Smoked Chili Remoulade, Crispy Onions, Sharp Cheddar, Shredded Lettuce

Offered: Lunch + Dinner Monday to Friday 11 am – 10 pm, Saturday & Sunday 3pm – 10 pm

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

Black Kettle Brewing

Drunken Kettle Smash Burger

Price: $14.50

Created by: Peter Allen

Description: A melt in your mouth burger and beer pairing all in one.

Ingredients: 5oz chuck patty, smoked white cheddar, bacon, lights out stout braised

mushrooms and onions

Offered: All the time

Available for dine in and take out

Black Kettle Brewing

720 Copping St, North Vancouver

Tel: (604) 969-1501

Web:http://www.blackkettlebrewing.com/

Instagram @blackkettlebrewing

The Peri Peri Shack

Original Fire Grilled Chicken Sandwich

Price: $15.50

Created by: the team

Description: Flamed grilled boneless chicken breast topped with peri peri mayo, red onions, crisp shredded lettuce & slice of tomato on a brioche bun.

Offered: all the time

The Peri Peri Shack

724 Kingsway, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 875-1651

Web: https://theperiperishack.com/

Instagram @theperiperishack

And

The Peri Peri Shack

6691 Hastings Street, Burnaby

Tel: (604) 294-1064

Web: https://theperiperishack.com/

Instagram @theperiperishack

Win Win Chick-N

Fried Chicken Tenders Burger Sandwich

Price: $8.99 + tax marinated with our secret sauce hand breaded with our in house spices, try it it’s simply delicious

Created by: the team

Description: We are serving our team recipe Win Win Chick-n hand breaded chicken tenders served on a brioche bun with our special sauce it’s simple and delicious with a choice upgrade for an additional $4.50 small side of our fresh hand cut french fries.

Offered: all the time

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

Holt’s Cafe

Bistek Burger

Price: $ 21 with a choice of side

Created by: Alen Villaluz

Description: Inspired by his Filipino roots, I challenged a team member to create a burger for this challenge. He came up with the Bistek Burger. Bistek is made of thinly sliced sirloin braised in a mixture of citrus(Calamansi), soy sauce, onions, and garlic.

Ingredients: 6oz 80/20 Ground Chuck, Soy & Calamansi Glaze, Grilled Onions, Bacon & Tomato Marmalade, Mayo, Shredded Iceberg Lettuce, Brioche

Offered: All the time

Available for dine-in and takeout

Holt’s Cafe

(inside Holt Renfrew)

737 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver

Tel: 604-681-3121

Web: www.holtrenfrew.com

Instagram @holtscafe

Parallel 49 Brewing Street Kitchen

Sweet ‘n Spam

Price: $16

Created by: Chefs Mike Brace and Julianna Holt

Description: all beef smash patty, chili & beer glazed grilled pineapple, sweet & spicy rubbed spam, pickled slaw, togarashi mayo, toasted brioche bun

Ingredient List: beef, pineapple, thai chili, P49 Craft Pilsner, chili flakes, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, salt, togarashi, cabbage, onion, white wine vinegar, sugar (note: brioche bun contains egg/dairy and togarashi contains sesame)

Availability: all-day everyday during Street Kitchen hours (Sun-Mon 11am-12am and Fri-Sat 11am-1am)

Parallel 49 Brewing Street Kitchen

1950 Triumph Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 558-2739

Web:http://parallel49brewing.com/

Instagram @parallel49beer

Chef Ron Restaurant & Bar

Chef Ron’s Serious Burger Lover

Price: $20

Created by: Chef Ron

Description: Homestyle two hundred grams angus certified, juicy, flavourful, mouthwatering burger patty, served on fresh burger bun with a spread of Chef Ron’s special aioli

Ingredients:

Offered: all the time

Chef Ron Restaurant & Bar

1037 Denman Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 336-9994

Web: https://chefron.ca/

Instagram @chefronrestaurant

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

Tara Lee

Writer for Montechristo Magazine and other publications.

Twitter: @VanGlutton

Instagram @vanglutton