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Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael plans to open a second El Camino taco restaurant on Clarence Street this summer.

The sister restaurant to Carmichael’s original and popular El Camino on Elgin Street near Gladstone Avenue is planned to open in June at 81 Clarence St., where the now-closed restaurant Stella Osteria was.

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“The space is a good fit,” Carmichael wrote Monday in an email. The second El Camino will feature the same menu as the Elgin Street location, which will remain open, but will also add “some unique items because of the type of equipment we can use in the bigger space,” Carmichael wrote.

Like the Elgin location, the Clarence Street El Camino will feature a take-out window for taco-eaters on the go. The location also includes a rooftop patio.

The second El Camino will be the fourth Ottawa restaurant in Carmichael’s collection, joining the original El Camino, which opened in 2013, its neighbour, the Asian small plates restaurant Datsun, which opened in late 2015, and the new, upscale it-spot Riviera on Sparks Street, which opened last summer.

According to El Camino’s Instagram page, Carmichael is holding a job fair at El Camino (380 Elgin St.) today (Monday, March 27) from 1 to 4 p.m. to hire kitchen and dining room staff for the new restaurant. Applicants can also send résumés to elcamino380@gmail.com.

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