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 :
- Look for our Sandwich challenge posters in each of the participating eateries
- 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