Until September 30 the following chefs have created off the menu dishes for Richard Wolak’s, The Vancouver Foodster’s, Chefs Challenge:

PARTICIPATING CHEFS & RESTAURANTS
Vancouver
Chef Matt Repeto The Bibo 1835 W 4th Ave
Restaurant Sous Chef Brian Luptak Café Pacifica Pan Pacific Vancouver 999 Canada Place Way
Chef Ian Errington Catch 122 122 West Hastings Street
Chef A.J. Jackson Darby’s Pub 2001 Macdonald Street
Chef Dennis Huang Gramercy Grill 2685 Arbutus Street
Chef Karen McAthy Graze Restaurant 3980 Fraser Street
Chef Brian Fowke Kitsilano Daily Kitchen 1809 West 1st Avenue
Chef Siddharthas Choudhary Siddharthas Indian Kitchen 2066 Commercial Drive
Chef Grace Rerksuttisiridach Simply Thai Restaurant 1211 Hamilton Street
Chef Nourdine Majdoubi Ten Ten Tapas 1010 Beach Avenue
Chef Roy Flemming Tuc Restaurant 60 West Cordova Street
Yagger’s Restaurant & Sports Bar 433 W Pender Street 2884 West Broadway
Burnaby
Chef Dan Craig EBO Restaurant Delta Burnaby Hotel 4331 Dominion Street
Langley
Chef Adrian Beatty Seasonal 56 Restaurant Suite 201-26730 56 Avenue
Richmond
Chef Mike Gonzales American Grille Vancouver Airport Marriott 7571 Westminster Hwy

With Chefs Signature Dishes Creations  diners can visit the restaurants between September 6-30 and order the Chefs dishes creations. Customers will vote on their favourite Chefs dishes through-out the challenge.

Click here to VOTE http://bit.ly/156krz4

We previewed a few of the dishes one afternoon.

Darby’s Public House
2001 Macdonald St, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 731-0617

Web: http://www.darbyspub.ca/
Twitter: @darbys_in_kits
Signature Dish: Braised Lamb Shank with wild mushroom polenta,green beans, rosemary red wine reduction

Lamb slow cooked in a red wine rosemary sauce until is fell from the bone; tender and flavouful.  The polenta wedges were crunchy and had an earthy mushroom flavour and were a good companion and worked well to sop up the tasty sauce.  Green beans were cooked perfectly and added colour to the plate.

Price: $15.95
Offered: Dinner nightly
Chef A.J. Jackson
Type of restaurant: gourmet pub style

Kitsilano Daily Kitchen
1809 W 1st Ave, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 569-2741
Web: http://www.kitsdaily.com/
Twitter: @KitsDaily

Signature Dish: Brown Butter Broiled Organic Peace Country Beef Marrow ‘Provençal’ with fried green heirloom tomatoes, bourbon onion jam, butter potato gnocchi and chanterelle mushroom cornbread.

This impeccable dish disappeared quickly as I scooped the decadent marrow eagerly from the bone.  Toasted breadcrumbs were a carrier for this delicious fatty substance which unearthed some primal instinct in all my dining companions. We then poured a shot of bourbon down the bone to collect any remnants of marrow our slurping, licking and sucking may have missed.  The gnocchi were perfect little globes and the entire dish is something I have thought about and recommended many times since tasting.

Price: Appetizer (without the gnocchi or cornbread): $18 OR Entrée: $32
Special Add-on: A complete bone’s pour of White American Bourbon to finish your meal – $12 (bring a bib)

Chef Brian Fowke

Simply Thai Restaurant
1211 Hamilton St, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 642-0123
Web: http://www.simplythairestaurant.com/
Signature Dish: Thai Steak

Prime sirloin steak strips on a bed of steamed broccoli topped with Simply Thai’s red curry sauce. Jasmine rice topped with bell peppers, fresh basil and lime leaves complete this plate.

This colourful and nicely decorated dish was served up with genuine hospitality.  The restaurant is one of the oldest in the area.  Unfortunately we were a bit late arriving and they had prepared it ahead so it was cold by the time we tried it, but I did enjoy the richness of the Thai red curry sauce.

Price: $25
Offered: Dinner nightly

Chef Siriwan (Grace) Rerksuttisiridach
Type of restaurant: fine dining Thai

Catch 122
122 West Hastings Street
Tel: (604) 731-3474
Web: http://www.catch122.ca/
Twitter: @Catch122

Signature Dish: Pan-roasted Thiessen Farm Blue Foot Chicken Breast
house-made potato gnocchi, BC lobster mushrooms, roasted baby carrots, sage cream

We dined out at Catch 122 and had the opportunity to try this moist local chicken dish in a rich sage cream.  Very nicely crisped skin, and another winning gnocchi; pilowy soft with a crisp exterior.

Price: $25
Offered: Dinner nightly