Chef William Tse Launches New Menu Items At BC Place

Saturday marked the start of football season in Vancouver with the BC Lions going up against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and Michael and I were invited to watch the game while enjoying some treats from the new BC Place Menu. While the game didn’t turn out in our favour, the food definitely scored points with us.

It was great to see Chef William Tse, the Executive Chef at BC Place, as we’ve met many times over the years at a variety of different venues, and I’d just commented on a recent post of his on Instagram to congratulate him on his son graduating! His son, Brandon, is now working at BC Place and is the gentlemen in the picture below. Extra cool as Chef Tse’s Dad was also a chef.

When you think of going out to the game, foot long hotdogs, popcorn and burgers come to mind, and they’re certainly available, should you wish, but along with the usual game fare, there’s some items that will certainly surprised you. Chef William Tse’s newest concession, Beast on Fire, was especially interesting, with items such as a Slow Roasted Prime Rib, with the beef having been marinated in fresh herbs and garlic, and served with horseradish mayonnaise, and braised onions, the Chicken & Waffle Sandwich, aa Liege waffle, with roasted chicken thigh, chipotle mayo, arugula, cheddar cheese, and the Bacon Wrapped Footlong Hot Dog, with double smoked bacon, an all-beef hot dog, caramelized onion and pepper, atop a soft bite bun.

We started with a couple small samples and, once again, enjoyed the Korean chicken rice bowl from Boom Kitchen; Michael had had the full version when we went to the Whitecaps game earlier in the year.

The carved prime rib sandwich was full of tender beef and the Beyond meat burger was, well, the Beyond meat burger. I prefer real meat, over this variation, but Michael quite likes it and I know there’s lots of vegetarians out there who are very happy to have an alternative. I must admit the texture is very good, a ton better than soggy, tasteless versions of veggie burgers I’ve had in the best. 

Upstairs there was a buffet set up as though we were royalty, we were extremely spoiled that night.

Sushi is made fresh onsite and the servers seemed super happy, and super hospitable the whole night. Nice to see some smiles and be treated so kindly.

Charcuterie from a local producer

Made to order Chicken/Shrimp/Prime rib Tacos

The Outrageous Burger, which is, outrageous with 3 house-formed beef patties, 3 chicken strips, 6 strips bacon, 3 slices cheddar cheese, hot dog wiener, french fries, and house recipe sauce. This picture is from earlier in the year as we had mini ones, and I must admit I actually really do like this one, despite it’s overkill, although I could never even eat the whole thing, even of the mini-versions we had.

Chicken and waffles. Didn’t sample these, so can’t report, perhaps next time

I’d had the butter chicken poutine before as well and it is something I would have gone for again if I had room.

Chicken Tenders, which I’m very found of as they’re perfectly crunchy and the meat is very tender.

D-original little devils

A little later in the game they made Floats, but there was no room for anything more at the point! Definitely fun though.

 

I’ve not been to many games, but I was super impressed with the whole experience of, not just the actual football, but the whole multimedia presentations on the big screens, the choice of music (lots of old school) and even the cheerleaders! It was father’s day the following day, so the Felions, as they’re called, performed a song with their Dads, super sweet.

We had a little visit from some BC Lions, Travis Lulay and Jamie Taras and they were happy to take a couple selfies and pose for a picture. Pretty darn special night, unfortunate that the game wasn’t better attended, as perhaps that would have been the tipping point to push the Lions to a win. We hope to see more people out as the season goes on, if nothing else, you know you’ll be well fed!