[Chef Diana Dávila] has a plan to help to get through the next few months. She’s teaming up with DishRoulette Kitchen, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, and a number of Chicago’s biggest chefs to provide 1,000 free meals to the community through an effort called Todos Ponen (roughly, “everyone puts in,” the restaurant’s mantra).
“Instead of closing for the winter, we came up with this project,” says Dávila. “The Logan Square Neighborhood Association provides so many resources for undocumented people, working families and working mothers. We’ll provide food that they are familiar with, food that they know, from one mom to another mom.”
She notes that this project will allow her to keep a kitchen staff employed, while also helping those in need. A few of the chefs she’s teaming up with include Eric Williams (Virtue), Darnell Reed (Luella’s Southern Kitchen), Won Kim (Kimski), Jonathon Zaragoza (El Oso) and Daniel Espinoza (Santa Masa Tamaleria). You can donate to the project here.
“I feel like I’m an optimist by nature,” says Dávila, “so I have that going for me.”