{"id":20440,"date":"2020-08-17T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2020-08-17T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:01:15","slug":"tasting-and-judging-vancouver-foodsters-iced-summer-drink-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/tasting-and-judging-vancouver-foodsters-iced-summer-drink-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasting and judging Vancouver Foodster’s Iced Summer Drink Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, there are 3 cafes over 11 locations offering their awesome creations for the Iced Summer Drink Challenge by\u00a0<\/span>Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge<\/strong>.\u00a0After you have tried these drinks at the participating establishments, you can then VOTE for your favourites.\u00a0 You can vote once per day throughout the promotion. The voting ends on September 6, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was fortunate to be selected as one of the media judges and couldn’t wait to seek out the qualities to make the drink become my most favourite: originality, creativity, uniqueness, price, value, and most importantly taste!<\/p>\n

Here are the ones that I try:<\/p>\n

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“Sparkling Matcha Raspberry”\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Whisk Matcha<\/em><\/h3>\n

39 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC V5T 3H7<\/em>
\n(604) 558-3232 or whiskmatchaxlevelv.square.site<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Whisky Matcha is a Vancouver-based matcha distributor offering first-harvest, hand-picked, stone-ground premium matcha directly from tea farms in Kyoto Japan.<\/p>\n

\""Sparkling<\/a>
“Sparkling Matcha Raspberry”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Mocha Chiller”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Delany’s Coffe House<\/em><\/h3>\n

Multiple locations (please see the bottom image)\u00a0<\/em>
\ndelanyscoffee.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The very first of Delany’s locations\u00a0on Denman has been serving the finest\u00a0coffee<\/em>\u00a0to Vancouver’s West End community since 1993. Now each of 5 locations in Vancouver Downtown and the North Shore, is positioned in a village-like area because they love being at the heart of a community, serving handcrafted coffee drinks with complex flavours.<\/p>\n

\""Mocha<\/a>
“Mocha Chiller”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Cloud 9”<\/h2>\n

Trees Cheesecake & Organic Coffee<\/em><\/h3>\n

Multiple locations (please see the bottom image)
\nfacebook.com\/treescoffee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Trees<\/em>\u00a0Cheesecake +\u00a0Organic<\/em>\u00a0Coffee serves freshly roasted\u00a0organic<\/em>\u00a0fair-trade coffee and arguably the BEST cheesecake at 7 Vancouver area locations.<\/p>\n

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Cloud 9 by Trees Coffee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are the participating cafes and their locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Try the drinks and vote here<\/strong><\/p>\n

–>\u00a0https:\/\/1.shortstack.com\/1ZcCSn<\/a><\/p>\n

And happy summer everyone!<\/p>\n

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This year, there are 3 cafes over 11 locations offering their awesome creations for the Iced Summer Drink Challenge by\u00a0Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge.\u00a0After you have tried these drinks at the participating establishments, you can then VOTE for your favourites.\u00a0 You can vote once per day throughout the promotion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[283,305,256,290,250,275,286,324,309,277,284],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_E554D14799FD-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20447,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions\/20447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}