Finkle Street Tap and Grill to Burger it Forward for third straight year

Finkle Street Tap and Grill's featured burger, a truffle-infused mushroom burger, will give back to Canada Food Banks, as Canada Beef will donate a meal for each burger sold as part of Burger It Forward this February. (Jenny Peace-Hall photo)

Emily Stewart, Echo Correspondent

Stop by Finkle Street Tap and Grill and chow down on their feature burger of the month to support Canada Food Banks and the local agricultural industry.

Finkle Street Tap and Grill is participating in the Canadian Beef Burger It Forward Campaign for the third consecutive year. It is an initiative where restaurants from all over Canada create a special burger for the month of February. For every feature burger sold at participating restaurants, Canadian Beef will donate the equivalent of one meal towards Canada Food Banks across the country, and up to the equivalent of 20,000 meals.

"It's a great cause,” said Finkle Street Tap and Grill owner Jenny Peace-Hall. “People can come out have a delicious burger, fill their belly but know in turn, they're helping to feed bellies of hungry people in our community and around the nation."

The restaurant at the corner of Simcoe and Finkle Streets created the truffle-infused mushroom burger for Burger It Forward. It features an Ontario-beef patty from Woodward Meats, wild mushrooms grown locally, gruyere cheese from Cambridge’s Edesia Fine Foods, pickles, lettuce, tomato, and red onion on a brioche bun.

"It's more popular at lunch than dinner but we're definitely selling quite a bit of them,” Peace-Hall said.

Trying the truffle-infused mushroom burger also supports local agriculture. Finkle Street Tap and Grill is known for featuring ingredients from local producers and farmers within 100 kilometres. Peace-Hall said that the tariff threats from the United States weren’t too concerning knowing that her restaurant features as much Canadian-made ingredients as possible.

"To support the community, it's really important to do what we can to support as locally as possible and that goes from all the services and suppliers that we use,” she said. “Even for some of the allied services, we use Canadian companies as well.”

She explained it does take a bit more work to do the research and see what you can get locally.

“But in the long run it definitely pays off and you're supporting the community in which you live and the people there."

More information about Burger It Forward, including other participating restaurants can be found by visiting burgeritforward.ca.