Is El Camino Still Open? You Gotta Eat Here! Update (Ottawa, ON)
Current status
As of October 2026, El Camino is listed open on eatelcamino.com, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
Last verified
What the source shows: The restaurant's own website lists Elgin Street hours, reservation and delivery links, and a menu file whose name carries the date 2026-08-19.
- Season / episode Season 4, Episode 8
- Original air date
- Address 380 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9
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What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?
Season 4, episode 8 of You Gotta Eat Here! (aired 2015-03-20) had host John Catucci eating tacos at El Camino in downtown Ottawa, according to TVmaze's episode summary. The Elgin Street restaurant opened in 2013 and serves tacos filled with pork, beef and ox tongue, according to a Centretown News article dated 2017-04-11 on the Capital Current archive. That article reported that chef Matthew Carmichael owns the restaurant and that a second El Camino would open that June on Clarence Street in the ByWard Market, in the former Stella Osteria space, with a take-out window and dishes beyond tacos. The restaurant's own website, which bills it as Tacos & Raw Bar, lists hours for both the Elgin Street address (380 Elgin) and the Clarence Street address (81A Clarence), links reservations through OpenTable and delivery through Uber Eats, and links a menu file whose name carries the date 2026-08-19 (eatelcamino.com).
Featured on You Gotta Eat Here!
- Show
- You Gotta Eat Here!
- Original air date
- Episode title
- El Camino, Two Guys and a Pizza Place, The Huntsman Tavern
- What was featured
- Tacos at the original Elgin Street restaurant in downtown Ottawa
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- El Camino
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Visit info
- Address
- 380 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9
- Venue type
- restaurant
- Official website
- eatelcamino.com
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Sources
- tvmaze.com — https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/710714/you-gotta-eat-here-4x08-el-camino-two-guys-and-a-pizza-place-the-huntsman-tavern
- capitalcurrent.ca — https://capitalcurrent.ca/archive/centretownnews/taco-spot-expands-to-market/
- eatelcamino.com — http://eatelcamino.com/
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