For the entire month of March, many of Toronto’s top restau­rants will be offer­ing locally focused prix fixe menus for $35 or $50 per per­son with pro­ceeds going to The Stop Community Food Center. The Stop is an orga­ni­za­tion that believes that good food should be a basic human right. To that end, they work to increase access to food in a man­ner that main­tains dig­nity, builds health and com­mu­nity and chal­lenges inequality.

The Stop and Crosstown Kitchens Chefs kicked off the month long-initiative called Stop for Food with an Iron Chef type chal­lenge held at the ROM’s C5 restau­rant. The com­pe­ti­tion pit­ted chefs from Amuse Bouche, Torito, C5 and The Stop’s Chris Brown against Jamie Kennedy from Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.

Fiesta Farms pro­vided all the par­tic­i­pat­ing chefs with the gro­ceries they needed to whip up some incred­i­ble canapes. As you may know, many of Toronto’s chefs con­sider Fiesta Farms their go-to gro­cery store. We had the rare occa­sion to have a bunch of Toronto’s finest chefs in the store at once. So, we took the oppor­tu­nity to ask them about Stop for Food and Fiesta Farms.

Watch Luis Valenzuela (Torito), Ted Corrado (C5), Chris Brown (The Stop), Bertrand Alépée (Amuse Bouche) talk about The Stop and why they’re lend­ing their efforts to such a great cause.

Jason Innis (Amuse Bouche) tells us why he’s excited to buy beef heart, tripe, sweet­breads at Fiesta Farms.

Luis Valenzuela (Torito) talks about Fiesta Farms and the impor­tance of local food choices.

Ted Corrado (C5) lives right around the cor­ner and tells us why Fiesta Farms is his favourite spot to shop.