The Vancouver Foodster Poutine Challenge was a success featuring creations from restaurants from around metro Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their poutine creation from February 8 – March 3, 2024.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
{105 points}
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
Double Duck Poutine
Price: $19
Created by: The kitchen team
Description: Crispy golden fries topped with duck confit, pickled garlic scape, cheese curds, salted duck yolk and duck gravy.
Ingredients: fries, duck confit, cheese curds, pickled garlic scape, salted duck yolk and duck gravy
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
{100 points}
Cockney Kings Fish & Chips
The Bill Murray (Curry Poutine)
Price: $12.95
Created by: the Cockney Kings Kitsilano team, with credit to Raj from our New Westminster location for creating our house made Curry sauce recipe!
Description: Fun fact: The traditional Cockney slang term for curry is Ruby Murray! Heard of her? Neither have we! Our curry poutine for the modern age is named for the chip bandit himself, Bill Murray, and combines classic cheese curds, our homemade curry sauce, a drizzle of our signature ‘What-What’ sauce, and is topped with a sprinkle of green onions and ‘scraps’ (that’s what we call crispy batter bits)! On the menu just in time for Groundhog Day, we promise you’re going to want to relive this experience over and over and over!
Ingredients:
- Kennebec Potatoes (fried in Beef Tallow)
- What-What Sauce Drizzle (Ranch + Hot Sauce)
- Curry Sauce (Tomato + Onion base w/ Indian Spices, Garlic, Ginger, and more)
- Batter ’Scraps’ (Flour based batter bits, fried)
- Green Onions
Offered: Monday-Sunday, 12pm-9pm. Available for delivery on DoorDash & UberEats. Exclusive to our Kitsilano location only!
Cockney Kings Fish & Chips
1935 Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 566-3474
Instagram @cockneykings
3rd Place
{98 points}
Hopcott Meats
Beef Bourguignon Poutine
Price: $14.49
Created by: Chef Evan Nice
Description: It’s a hearty poutine, made from Hopcott’s own Blade Steak, and slow cooked to perfection, finished off with a red wine reduction gravy.
Ingredients: House Cut Kennebec Fries, Birchwood Dairy Cheese Curds, House Made Red Wine Reduction Gravy, Hopcott’s Own Blade Steak, Bacon, Onions, Mushrooms, Garlic, Thyme & Parsley
Offered: All the time
Available for dine-in and take-out.
Hopcott Meats
18385 Old Dewdney Trunk Road, Pitt Meadows
Tel: 604.465.7799
Web: http://www.hopcottmeats.ca/
Twitter @HopcottFarms
Instagram @hopcottfarms
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Poutine creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Vivace on the Drive
Il Piatto Vincitore
Price: $18
Created by: Chef Rory Byrne
Description: The poutine was made to utilise as many leftover ingredients from our other dishes in order maximise gain and minimise waste. The bisque is made from the shells of our shellfish as well as the bones from our striped bass so that no part of the animal is wasted. At Vivace on The Drive, before any ingredient is used, any bi-products or otherwise waste products of ingredients need to be found a use whenever possible to prevent food waste and this poutine is the perfect example of that.
Ingredients: Beer Battered Scallops, Seafood Bisque, Kennebec Fries, Feta Cheese, Bonito Flakes
Offered: Thursday – Monday from 5pm until close
Available: Dine in only
Vivace on the Drive
1728 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Tel: 604) 253-0888
Web: https://vivaceonthedrive.ca/
Instagram @vivaceonthedrive
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Stanley’s Bar & Grill
Double Duck Poutine
Price: $19
Created by: The kitchen team
Description: Crispy golden fries topped with duck confit, pickled garlic scape, cheese curds, salted duck yolk and duck gravy.
Ingredients: fries, duck confit, cheese curds, pickled garlic scape, salted duck yolk and duck gravy
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/
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Cockney Kings Fish & Chips
The Bill Murray (Curry Poutine)
Price: $12.95
Created by: the Cockney Kings Kitsilano team, with credit to Raj from our New Westminster location for creating our house made Curry sauce recipe!
Description: Fun fact: The traditional Cockney slang term for curry is Ruby Murray! Heard of her? Neither have we! Our curry poutine for the modern age is named for the chip bandit himself, Bill Murray, and combines classic cheese curds, our homemade curry sauce, a drizzle of our signature ‘What-What’ sauce, and is topped with a sprinkle of green onions and ‘scraps’ (that’s what we call crispy batter bits)! On the menu just in time for Groundhog Day, we promise you’re going to want to relive this experience over and over and over!
Ingredients:
- Kennebec Potatoes (fried in Beef Tallow)
- What-What Sauce Drizzle (Ranch + Hot Sauce)
- Curry Sauce (Tomato + Onion base w/ Indian Spices, Garlic, Ginger, and more)
- Batter ’Scraps’ (Flour based batter bits, fried)
- Green Onions
Offered: Monday-Sunday, 12pm-9pm. Available for delivery on DoorDash & UberEats. Exclusive to our Kitsilano location only!
Cockney Kings Fish & Chips
1935 Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 566-3474
Instagram @cockneykings
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.
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Ray Lee, Maggi Mei, and Tara Lee.
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 Poutine creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning places to try their Poutine creations! See the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak