-Our Beginning-

Every story has a beginning, and for us it starts with looking for amazing and delicious food. When Défi Cuisine opened, it was done based around using wonderful local ingredients. Working With local farms is a great start, but we wanted more. We carefully seek out the best farms with the ideals of sustainability, organics, multi-cropping, and crop rotation in mind. We are proud to partner with farms that we feel are helping make for a better tasting future! 

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-Our Philosophy- 

Cooking and eating is one of the original concept of humanity and helped guide humanity  in the development of society. As ways of cooking and eating evolved society did as well up until about 380 years ago with the invention of the restaurant. It was at this point people slowly started giving up the roll of cooking, relinquishing the gastronomic duty to restaurants. The concept of restaurants truly hasn't changed as an idea in all these years. In short, you (the guest) orders food, someone lets the cook/chef know what you'd like, that person behind some wall or in a basement makes your food, and it is brought to you. We are here to challenge that! We want to develop relationships with our guests and chefs, we want our guests to know where their food is coming from and why it was chosen, we want our guests to taste the difference between fresh, local, amazing food, and food that was shipped from around the world. Are you ready to change the way you look at food?   

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-Our work with Farms-

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"You are what you eat", more than likely you've heard this old adage and never truly thought about it. Lets try this, the next time you go to a farmers market, try to find a local truly organic carrot, ask the farmer all about the carrot (or some other vegetable or fruit that is in season), how it was raised and where is came from (note, carrots are best in September). Then stop by your grocery store and pick up a regular carrot... Go home, wash them, and taste them side by side for which one has more flavor! It's the local carrot, not because its form heirloom seed or some magic carrot, it grew up in better soil, it has more nutrition to offer us and thus tastes better to us. Our tastes reward better nutrition for the most part! The carrot got what it needed from its food making it easier for you to do the same. That is the basic idea behind what we are trying to do!

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