Get Your ‘Stache On to Help Raise Funds for Prostate Cancer – or – Just Go Out For Dinner

Gentlemen, have you got a 'stache going on yet? Are you getting bits of food in it? (Ladies... I don't want to know.)

There's still time to take part in Mo'vember, an annual month-long event to raise awareness of prostate cancer. Instead of wearing a ribbon, men can raise awareness of the disease by growing a moustache for the month and collecting funds for Prostate Cancer Canada.

If you can't grow a 'stache, there's still a way to participate in Mo-vember, though. For the month of November, several dishes, many of them prostate-friendly, will be added to the menu at SIR Corp.'s Signature Restaurants,  Far Niente, Four, Petit Four, reds, and The Loose Moose Tap & Grill. Proceeds from the sale of the menu items during the month of November will go to Prostate Cancer Canada, and staff at the restaurants will also be encouraged to raise funds and grow moustaches, as part of the worldwide campaign.

At Far Niente, Chef de Cuisine Frank Romano designed a dinner special of Wild Nunavut Arctic Char with roasted sun chokes, wilted spinach, soybeans, tomato compote, pomegranate and saw palmetto glaze and pumpkin seed praline ($32). According to Romano, he chose ingredients in the dish for their prostate-friendly qualities, including the fish for its Omega-3 fatty acids; soybeans for its phytoestrogens; pomegranate and tomatoes for their bright red pigment (lycopene); and pumpkin seeds for their zinc content.

At FOUR, Chef de Cuisine Matt Rosen is preparing two dishes for Movember. The first is a main course dish of Grilled Mackerel with curried cauliflower, sweet potato, kale and papaya salsa ($22). Rosen is also preparing an appetizer for the cause, Gulf Shrimp with avocado, tomato, watermelon and a lime and grapefruit vinaigrette ($13). Rosen chose the mackerel for its Omega-3 fatty acids, shrimp for its high zinc, grapefruit, papaya, tomatoes and watermelon for their lycopene content, and the cauliflower, sweet potato and kale because they’re cruciferous vegetables, part of the mustard family and are rich in nutrients considered good choices for prostate health.

At Petit Four, Executive Pastry Chef of Signature Group, Leslie Steh, is offering a delicious, prostate-friendly Cranberry, Green Bean Salad, with a mix of spinach and arugula with toasted pumpkin seeds, cranberries, green beans and quinoa ($4.95, small; $6, large).

At The Loose Moose, Executive Chef Cary Bynoe offers another Omega-3 hit with Hot Lox Salad, featuring grilled smoked salmon with mixed greens, red onion, capers, bagel chips and a cream cheese dressing ($14.99).

reds bistro & wine bar’s Executive Chef Michael Steh is serving up Roasted Loin of Flintshire Farms Rabbit, with braised rabbit chasseur, Cinderella pumpkin and creamed leeks ($32).

Fifty cents from the sale of the Petit Four Movember salad, and two dollars from every Movember dish that is sold at Far Niente, Four, The Loose Moose and reds will go to Prostate Cancer Canada.