Vancouver Sandwich Challenge

Welcome to the next Vancouver Sandwich Challenge.  Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their Sandwich creations into this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring one special Sandwich creations on their menu from September 25 – October 19, 2025.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the sandwich creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best sandwich 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 #SandwichChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets, instagram stories, posts and other social shares during the challenge.

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

How to VOTE :

  1. Look for our Sandwich challenge posters in each of the participating eateries
  2. Scan the QR code and Vote for your favourites from September 25 – October 19, 2025

Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to taste the different sandwich creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourite

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

Those Indian Guys

Chicken Naanwich

Price: $14 (optional: add salad for extra $1.50)

Created by: Vinnie

Description: Pulled chicken tikka with cucumber raita sauce, shredded lettuce, pickled onions, on a toasted naan.

Ingredients: House made naan, pulled chicken tikka, cucumber raita, shredded lettuce, pickled onions.

Offered: Daily 11am – 2pm

Available: Takeout and delivery.

Delivery: uberEats, Doordash.

Those Indian Guys

120-1881 152 street. Surrey BC

Tel: 778-512-9556

Website: www.thoseindianguys.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/those_indian_guys/

The Saigonville

Saigon Banh Mi

Price: $9.50

Created by: Chef Kevin

Description: Our banh mi features Vietnamese ham, curing pork, smoked ham, cucumber, pickled daikon and carrot, pate, egg, mayonnaise, soy sauce, and cilantro. We do it with our respect to show everyone the real Banh Mi in Saigon where one of the popular Banh Mi is in Vietnam.

Offered: All the time (closed on Wednesday’s).

Available: Dine-in

The Saigonville

2129 E Hastings St, Vancouver

Web:https://www.thesaigonville.ca/

Instagram @thesaigonville

Maizal RMF

(the torta – details to come)

Price: $

Created by: Rodrigo Vela

Description:

Ingredients:

Offered: all the time for dine-in and take-out

Maizal RMF

2815 Main Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 709-0813

Web: https://www.maizalrestaurant.ca/

Instagram: @maizal_rmf

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

Joyce Lam

Food Blogger for her own Vanfoodies

Instagram: @vanfoodies

TikTok @vanfoodies

Rick Green

Freelance writer for BC Brews and other publications

Instagram @b.c.beerblog .

Tara Lee

Writer for Montechristo Magazine and other publications.

Instagram @vanglutton