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El Camino opening today, May 28th, 2013!

In our second interview of this week we actually had 3 guests in studio. We recorded the interview at HUB Ottawa. The guests were Chef Michael Carmichael from the new El Camino restaurant opening on Elgin street and Mike Grigoriev and Sharif Virani, the founders of Creative Mornings Ottawa (On Twitter @Ottawa_CM).

The music was provided from NDMA who just recently launched his new 505 EP. He will be at the Ottawa Bluesfest on Saturday, July 6th.

A big thank you to Kichesippi Breweries for providing the refreshments this week. The drink is Harvey and Verns soda which will be launched across Ottawa on April 29th. The two sodas now would be a Ginger Beer and a Cream Soda.

We started with the lads from Creative Mornings Ottawa, we spoke about:
– how it is an exciting time in Ottawa for creativity
– What Mike studied in school
– The app he developed
– The idea of social capital and building trends in Ottawa
– What Creative Mornings is all about
– What is HUB Ottawa?
– Past guests on Creative Mornings
– The April 5th charity event

After the break we spoke with the award winning Matt Carmichael, he has a great new restaurant coming soon to Elgin Street, we spoke more about:
– Where he was raised and how he came about to settling in Ottawa
– He wanted to be a phys ed teacher
– How he got into cooking, moving to Toronto to learn then coming back
– The growing restaurant scene in Ottawa
– The new restaurant, who he wants to cook for, what he wants it to look like
– Ironwood Café used to have the best guacamole, this is a main feature of El Camino
– The importance of lighting in restaurants
– High end food in super casual way

We finish with the song Champion from NDMA.