I went to Shuck wanting to love it. Expecting to love it, frankly. But I didn’t. It’s a good restaurant, but even with the creativity and rare-in-Halifax modernist point of view that chef Luis Clavel brings to the table, and as much as it tries to innovate, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel in a way […]
Luis Clavel
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Luis Clavel welcomes you to The Table
When Halifax chef Luis Clavel wants comfort food, it’s usually his mom’s pupusas he’s craving. The traditional Salvadoran dish is “like a flapjack stuffed with cheese and then pan-fried,” he explains. Clavel—the chef at Shuck Seafood + Raw Bar— was born in Puerto Rico and raised in El Salvador and Guatamala before immigrating to Nova […]
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Culinary champs
Nova Scotia has often been lucky when it comes to food. There’s a certain remarkable quality to the food here that’s hard to find anywhere else in Canada. Culinary Team Canada obviously gets it; they’ve selected two Nova Scotian chefs, Luis Clavel and Peter Dewar, to be part of the team. Culinary Team Canada is […]
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Luis Clavel lands at Cafe 101
A stainless steel battleground, the kitchen stadium is a fixture of The Iron Chef, the television show where culinary masters face off, hoping to burnish their golden reputations as celebrity chefs. Outside of the glow of that limelight, there is another world of cooking competitions, a world the public isn’t really privy to, where food […]