Richard Wolak has another challenge for you all. I’ll head out next week to try a few! Let me know where you go and what you like too! I’ll be following the #CheesecakeChallenge hashtag.
Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Cheesecake Challenge.
How Does this all Work? Well, this is a public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the cheesecakes in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best cheesecake creation.e created a special cheesecake just for this challenge. Each restaurant, café and bakery will be featuring their cheesecake on their menu from March 7-28, 2013.
Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter address is@vanfoodster and the hashtag is #CheesecakeChallenge please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the event.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite cheesecake’s – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to share and taste the different cheesecakes or go solo or with a friend – just remember to VOTE for your favourites between March 26 – March 31.
Here are the 12 Cheesecakes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Dunns Famous
Dunn’s Famous Strawberry Cheese Cake
Dunn’s Famous Strawberry Cheese Cake
Description- Original Montreal recipe baked in house and fresh strawberries, glazed with strawberry sauce
Price- $7.99
Ingredients- secret recipe from Dunn’s Famous since 1927
Offered: All day, everyday
Dunns Famous
827 Seymour Street,Vancouver
Tel: 604-682-8938
Twitter: @DunnsFamousBC
Web: http://www.dunnsfamousbc.com
Satori Factory
Vanilla Bean Apple Pie Cheesecake
Vanilla Bean Apple Pie Cheesecake (Gluten free)
Ingredients:
Crust: Almonds, garbanzo flour, tapioca flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, fava flour, sugar, butter, free range egg, organic sugar, cinnamon, salt
Filling: cream cheese, goat cheese, vanilla bean, cream, sour cream, free range eggs, corn starch, organic sugar
Topping: organic green apples, organic sugar
Ginger cinnamon crisp garnish: corn starch, fava flour, garbanzo flour, tapioca flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, organic sugar, canola oil, ginger, cinnamon, salt
Finished with fresh orange zest
Price: $4.50
Created by: Chef Sandra Lee
Offered: Daily
Satori Factory
5054 Victoria Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 569-0420
Twitter: @mysatorifactory
Web: www.satorifactory.ca
Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House
Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake
Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake
Description: Light & creamy cheesecake with whole raspberries and white chocolate on a graham crumb base, served with a drizzle of raspberry coulis
Price: $6.99
Offered: All day, everyday
Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House
450 Granville Street, Vancouver
321 Water Street, Vancouver
1391 Richards Street, Vancouver
2655 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
Twitter: @TreesOrganic
Web: http://www.treescoffee.com/
Fets Bar and Grill
Banana Bacon Cheesecake
Banana Bacon Cheesecake with a whiskey maple caramel
Description: This rich house made baked creation has a bacon graham crust and is topped with a Canadian whiskey maple caramel and garnished with candied bacon
Price $9
Ingredients: Canadian Bacon, Real maple syrup, Canadian Whiskey, Bananas, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Graham Wafers, Secret ingredients
Created by our Sous Chef Travis Fergie
Offered: At Lunch, Dinner & Weekend Brunch
Fets Bar and Grill
1230 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Tel: 604-255-7771
Twitter: @FetsGrill
Darby’s Pub
Triple Chocolate Stout Cheesecake
Triple Chocolate Stout Cheesecake
Description: Chewy chocolate crust, dark chocolate stout cheesecake, caramel syrup, milk chocolate sauce
Price: $4.95
Created by: Executive Chef A.J. Jackson
Offered: 11am – Midnight
Darby’s Pub
2001 Macdonald Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-731-0617
Twitter: @Darbys_In_Kits
Bella Gelateria
Amalfli Coast Limoncello Cheesecake gelato with sorrento lemon zest.
Amalfli Coast Limoncello Cheesecake gelato with sorrento lemon zest.
Description: Infusing a Sorrento lemon zest with the deep warm limoncello liquer from the Amalfi Coast of Southern Italy, then blended with a classic cream cheese, our cheesecake will take you to the warmth of the sun in Naples when you close your eyes.
Price:
$5.50 single size
$6.70 double size
$7.80 Triple size
Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Limoncello, Cream cheese, Sorrento Lemon zest
Created by: Gelaterie Maestro James Coleridge
Offered: All day, everyday
Bella Gelateria
1001 W Cordova St, Vancouver
Tel: 604-569-1010
Twitter: @bellagelateria
Web: http://www.bellagelateria.com/
Tarts Bakery
Triple Threat: Hot Fudge Brownie Cheesecake Tart
Triple Threat: Hot Fudge Brownie Cheesecake Tart
Description: Three desserts in one. A layer of homemade chocolate fudge sauce, covered with a creamy cheesecake filling and studded with rich chocolate brownie pieces, all nestled in our signature flaky, all-butter pie crust. Garnished with two chunks of brownie, served warm and drizzled with hot fudge. Enjoy this decadent dessert that gives a whole new delicious meaning to the phrase “Triple Threat”!
Price: $6.99
Ingredients:
Crust: Flour, Unsalted Butter, Egg, Lemon Juice, Salt; Brownie Pieces: Semisweet Chocolate, Flour, Sugar, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Baking Powder, Salt; Chocolate Fudge: Whipping Cream, Sugar, Cocoa Powder, Unsalted Butter, Coffee Extract; Cheesecake Filling: Cream Cheese, Sugar, Eggs, Pure Vanilla, Salt.
Created by: Sara Subramani and Lisa Coan.
Offered: All day, everyday
Tarts Bakery
1509 West Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: 604-737-8278
Twitter: @TartsBakery
Web: www.tartsbakery.ca/
Fable Kitchen
Gorgonzola Cheesecake
Gorgonzola Cheesecake
Description: Gorgonzola Cheesecake with Maple glazed pear balls, dulce de leche pear puree, vanilla cinnamon jelly sheet, mascarpone cream.
Price: $10
Ingredients: Gorganzola cheese, cream cheese, eggs, mascarpone, sugar, salt, cream, vanilla, cinnamon, greek yogurt, condensed milk.
Created by: Chef Curtis Luck
Offered: Mon-Saturday at dinner, 5:30 to close.
Fable Kitchen
1944 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver
Twitter: @FableKitchen
Web: http://fablekitchen.ca/
Gramercy Grill
Strawberry Cheese Cake
Strawberry Cheese Cake
Description: Baked Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake with Graham Wafer Crust
Price: $7.50
Ingredients: Cream Cheese, Milk, Sugar, Flour, Orange Zest, Lemon Zest, Strawberry, Eggs , Vanilla Bean, Butter, Graham Crackers
Offered: during all business hours – Mon thru Sat 11am to last seating 9pm and Sun 10am to last seating 9pm
Created by: Chef Dennis Huang
Gramercy Grill
2685 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-730-5666
Twitter: @gramercygrill
Web: http://www.gramercygrill.ca/
Salontea
Salontea Tea-infused Cheesecake
Salontea Tea-infused Cheesecake
Description: Our Salontea Vanilla Chai tea-infused cheesecake is made with a flourless brownie and hazelnut base, with a hint of orange zest. It is topped with Salontea Dancer tea-poached fresh blueberries. Our cheesecake creation is gluten free and served individually-sized.
Price $5.95
Ingredients: Cream Cheese, orange zest, eggs, sugar, flourless brownie mixture, ground hazelnuts, wild blueberries, Salontea Dancer and Vanilla Chai teas
Created by… our secret.
Offered: M-F 9-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5
3010 Granville Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604.569.1198
Twitter: @SalonteaCanada
Web: http://salontea.com/locations.php
Max’s Burgers
Price:
Description:
Created by: Chef Travis Redpath
Offered: All the time.
Max’s Burgers
521 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: 604-873-6297
Twitter: @MaxsBurgersVan
Pier 7
Price:
Description:
Created by: the Team at Pier 7
Offered:
Pier 7 Restaurant
25 Wallace Mews Rd, North Vancouver
Tel: 604-929-7437
Twitter: @pier7restaurant
Web: http://pierseven.ca/
Make sure you pick up one of the Cheesecake Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourite cheesecake creations. Remember to Vote for your favourites from March 26-31 at http://vancouverfoodster.com/cheesecake-challenge/
