The Vancouver Foodster 10th Annual Best Burger Challenge was a success featuring creations from restaurants around greater Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their burger creation from October 5-29, 2023. 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:
{108 points}
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
The Royal Huntsman
Price: $27
Created by: The kitchen team
Description: Our delicious bison burger is house-made and comes topped with Royal Blue Stilton cheese, thick cut slices of Cajun spiced hickory smoked wild boar bacon, apple chips, butter lettuce, heirloom tomato and our 40 Creek BBQ aioli. This is all held together with our very own sesame topped charcoal brioche bun. Served with French fries.
Main Protein Ingredient: Bison
Offered: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m Wednesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays and Tuesday)
Available: Dine-in and Takeout
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
610 Pipeline Rd (inside Stanley Park), Vancouver
Tel: (604) 602-3088
Web: https://stanleysbargrill.com/
Instagram @stanleysbargrill
2nd Place:
{101 points}
C Prime Modern Italian Steakhouse & Wine Bar
The Bone Marrow Burger
Price: $32
Created by: Chef Behshad Zolnasr and Chef Jo Hognestad
Description: 1/2 lb burger patty with roasted bone marrow, burnt tomato jam, caramelized onion and a herb salad.
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: Daily 5pm – 10pm
Available: Dine-in only.
C Prime Modern Italian Steakhouse & Wine Bar
1015 Burrard Street
Tel: 604-684-3474
Instagram @cprimesteak
3rd Place (TIE):
{100 points}
BRGR BRGR
TRKDCKN BRGR
Price: $24
Created by: Seamus Dixon
Description: Our version of a turducken: ground chicken and turkey patty, (white bbq sauce and smoked bourbon salt), pickled coleslaw, stuffing, raclette Swiss cheese, top with duck confit, Carolina gold mustard bbq sauce served on a toasted pretzel bun, served with yam fries and small Quebec style gravy
Main Protein Ingredient: Chicken and Turkey
Offered: Daily, all the time
BRGR BRGR at The Cordova Bar
136 Cordova Street, Vancouver
Tel; (604) 558-0400
Web: https://brgrbrgr.ca/menu-gastown/
Instagram @brgrbrgrbeers
3rd Place (TIE):
{100 points}
The One Sixty Wine Bar & Cafe
The Big Nap
Price: $26
Created by: Laurie Horvath & Preston Hamilton
Description: The little butcher’s smashed patty topped with crispy Truffle Mac & cheese croquettes served on a toasted sesame bun with house accompaniments.
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: Tuesday-Sunday
Available: Dine in only
The One Sixty Wine Bar & Cafe
3141 Murray St, Port Moody
Tel: (604) 492-1010
Web: https://www.theonesixty.com/
Instagram @theonesixtyportmoody
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Burger creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
The Royal Huntsman
Price: $27
Created by: The kitchen team
Description: Our delicious bison burger is house-made and comes topped with Royal Blue Stilton cheese, thick cut slices of Cajun spiced hickory smoked wild boar bacon, apple chips, butter lettuce, heirloom tomato and our 40 Creek BBQ aioli. This is all held together with our very own sesame topped charcoal brioche bun. Served with French fries.
Main Protein Ingredient: Bison
Offered: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m Wednesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays and Tuesday)
Available: Dine-in and Takeout
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
610 Pipeline Rd (inside Stanley Park), Vancouver
Tel: (604) 602-3088
Web: https://stanleysbargrill.com/
Instagram @stanleysbargrill
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Win Win Chick-N
Fried Chicken Tenders Burger Sandwich
Price: $8.99 + tax
Created by: the team
Description: fresh chicken tenders marinated in house afterwards hand breaded and pressure fried to keep the moisture and flavor of the tenders partnered with a soft brioche buns! we have two new sauces to enjoy spicy volcano sauce and spicy soy garlic it’s simply delicious! We are serving our team recipe Win Win Chick-n hand breaded chicken tenders 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.
Main Protein Ingredient: Chicken
Offered: all the time
Win Win Chick-N
12160 First Ave, Richmond
Tel: 778 297 5818
Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/
Instagram @winwinchickn2018
3rd Place People’s Choice:
The One Sixty Wine Bar & Cafe
The Big Nap
Price: $26
Created by: Laurie Horvath & Preston Hamilton
Description: The little butcher’s smashed patty topped with crispy Truffle Mac & cheese croquettes served on a toasted sesame bun with house accompaniments.
Main Protein Ingredient: Beef
Offered: Tuesday-Sunday
Available: Dine in only
The One Sixty Wine Bar & Cafe
3141 Murray St, Port Moody
Tel: (604) 492-1010
Web: https://www.theonesixty.com/
Instagram @theonesixtyportmoody
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Jacqueline Chui, Hanson Do and Yuki No.
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 cake creation could earn is 120 points.
Thank you to the chefs and establishments that accepted my invitation and featured their burgers on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning places to try their burger creations! See the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak