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    Canada’s ‘50 best’ awarded restaurant gives guests the chance to secure the rarer cuts of meat with this immersive theatre-style experience

    Yakitoria-style restaurant, Shokunin (www.shokuninyyc.ca), headed up by the acclaimed Chef Darren MacLean, has launched a new Yakitori Omakase Experience, the first of its kind in the city of Calgary. The new Yakitori Omakase Experience offers guests the only opportunity to guarantee some of the rarer cuts of chicken, including Chicken Ass and Chicken Oysters. Shokunin only butchers 25-30 fresh chickens a day, and it often sells out of the premium skewers in minutes.

    Canada’s 50 best restaurateur and tv personality, Chef Darren Maclean, to host a plethora of global culinary talent in Calgary, Canada

    Critically acclaimed Chef, Darren MacLean, and founder of three of Canada’s Top 100 Best Restaurants – Shokunin, EIGHT and NUPO – is gearing up to welcome leading culinary talent from across the world to collaborate in its annual International Chef Exchange, hosted in Calgary, Canada. The exchange seeks to actively promote Alberta’s and Canada’s culinary background and cross-cultural character around the globe, while learning about other country’s cooking styles and practices.

    Canada’s 50 best restauranteur and TV personality, Chef Darren Maclean, hosts UK's Michelin-Starred Chef Andrew Wong in Calgary, Canada

    Critically acclaimed Chef, Darren MacLean, and founder of three of Canada’s Top 100 Best Restaurants – Shokunin, EIGHT and NUPO – is gearing up to welcome London’s leading culinary talent Andrew Wong to collaborate in his International Chef Exchange, hosted in Calgary, Canada. The exchange seeks to actively promote Alberta’s and Canada’s culinary background and cross-cultural character around the globe, while learning about other country’s cooking styles and practices.