Via Sophia Cooks Relief Fund

Hi. I'm Chef Colin Clark and I have worked in kitchens since I was thirteen years old. This is my restaurant, Via Sophia, in  happier times. I am now occupied cooking staff meals for the skeleton crew running our hotel, co-homeschooling my two sons, and trying to do whatever I can to help the tireless chefs and cooks, managers and waiters, dishwashers, bussers, runners, hosts; as well as all the brilliant independent farmers and other fine food purveyors without whom there is nothing and I am lost. 

People who work in restaurants almost universally lack the "work life balance" thing. Whether by choice or necessity, and usually it's at least a little of both, we live to work and nothing is more brutal than a slow shift or a slow month or being stuck at home with a random malady.  We'venever existentially dealt with anything like this plague, and no one knows what to do, and while I don't want to kid myself that this page will be able to make a dent in the enormous financial losses literally everyone even tangentially linked to this business is suffering right now, I have to do something. For now we are trying to help some of our farms and other purveyors stay afloat by helping them start CSA box programs; over the weeks we will try to devise more ways to be helpful to the food community. We will keep you posted. Here is where I will collect "tips" on the CSA box program and donations that will go to the furloughed employees of Via Sophia.