The GOODS from Bittered Sling

Vancouver, BC | The Bittered Sling Bistro food and cocktail-pairing competition began in 2011. The bistro is Vancouver’s longest-running and largest competition of its kind. Each event blends featured spirits and sumptuous, seasonal cuisine with a special guest bartender who guides the guests through an informative spirit-tasting session and creates custom cocktails to accompany each dishes. Guests are asked to rate each host bartender’s presentation and pairing skills and at the end of each season, the top-scoring bartenders compete for a coveted grand prize. The season three finale is being held at Uva Wine Bar at 900 Seymour Street, Vancouver on Sunday November 24th from 8-11PM. Six of Vancouver’s best bartenders will be put behind bar against each other in a showcase showdown.

Jay Jones (The Blackbird Public House and Oyster Bar), Evelyn Chick (Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar), Justin Taylor (Yew at the Four Seasons), Grant Sceney (Fairmont Pacific Rim), Jean-Sebastian “J.S.” Dupuis (Homer Street Café), and Robyn Gray (PiDGiN) will mix, sling and spin inspired creations and vie for bartender bragging rights as well as a one-of-a-kind brand of “bartender bitters” to be created in their honour by Bittered Sling. Details after the jump…

Sponsored by Charton-Hobbs, the Bittered Sling Bistro finale is billed as the “European Invasion”, as each bartender will be tasked to create a unique cocktail inspired by and using featured spirits Hennessy Cognac, Ardbeg and Glenmorangie single-malt Scotch Whiskies and Belvedere vodka. Guests will have the opportunity to sample each competitor’s cocktail and delicious bites from the Uva kitchen.

Only a limited number of tickets to the Bittered Sling Bistro finale are available for $30. To purchase tickets, visit www.eventbrite.ca/event/9185842101.

Details

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The People Who Make It Happen

Co-proprietor, Sommelier/Mixologist: Lauren Mote
Co-proprietor, Chef: Jonathan Chovancek

About Bittered Sling

Bittered Sling celebrates the collaboration of chef Jonathan Chovancek and mixologist and sommelier Lauren Mote, who have contributed a combined 30 years of professional experience, knowledge and innovation to the Canadian food and beverage industry.

In 2010, Mote and Chovancek launched Vancouver-based boutique catering and events company Kale & Nori Culinary Arts — the predecessor to Bittered Sling — and quickly carved out a niche both locally and internationally for their unique products, dynamic and diverse cuisine and specialty cocktail creations. In 2013, Kale & Nori was singled out as Producer/Supplier of the Year at the 24th Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards for its brand of Bittered Sling Extracts.

Bittered Sling Extracts is a retail line of high-quality, small-batch bitters and extracts that provides palate, plate and potion with a subtle-yet-exciting fusion of homegrown ingredients and flavours. With aromatic labels such as Orange and Juniper, Plum and Rootbeer and Clingstone Peach, Bittered Sling underscores a singular and delicious irony that while all of their bitters are extracts, not all of their extracts are bitter. By the dash or the drop, each creation offers an intricate range of complex flavours that perfectly accentuates food, spirits and even sparkling water.

Twice a month over a six-month span, Mote and Chovancek host their popular and perennially sold-out Bittered Sling Bistro events at the Legacy Liquor Store in Olympic Village. A friendly competition between some of the region’s best bartenders now heading into its fourth season, each edition of the Bistro offers guests a feature spirit tasting accented by Bittered Sling Extracts and an indulgent three-course menu inspired by each particular spirit’s wide range of notes and character.