Chuck Hughes

Chuck Hughes, a Canadian chef is multitalented and usually spins his magic over food to create signature Chuck Hughes Recipes. His restaurant ‘Garde Manger’ is a hot spot in Montreal, Canada.

With his rampant obsession for cooking, he got success in entertaining his fans through food and television. The highlight of Chuck Huges recipes is their simplicity. The chef himself believes that it is better to have simple and tasty food rather than having fancy but unpalatable dishes.

Love for food is quite evidently tattooed on Chuck Hughes arms. Oysters and lobsters crafted on his arms indicate infatuation of the chef with his profession.

Personal and Professional Life of Chuck Hughes

Settled in Montreal, Canada, Chuck Hughes is a happy-go-lucky man who loves to spend some fun and relaxed moments with his dog in his family cottage at Magog. He started his career with advertising and was moving quite well in that direction, but circumstances led him towards cooking. It may be his love for restaurants that inspired him to be a chef.

To build his career and to brush up his culinary skills, Chuck Hughes enrolled himself into a cookery school. Along with his training, he joined some of the best and most up-to-date kitchens in the city. His two best friends also helped him a lot in achieving his dreams as a cook and restaurateur.

The Chuck Hughes recipes presented in his restaurant are usually known as comfort recipes due to their unfussiness and minimalism. All the recipes are as unique as their creator.

Being a successful chef, Chuck Hughes has also appeared on television in food shows. Through his show, he offered some of the great Chuck Hughes recipes to the audiences.

Notable Achievements of Chuck Hughes

Chuck Hughes recipes and he himself is a great contribution to the culinary world. Some of his noteworthy achievements are as follows:

• June 2006 is the important year in the life of Chuck Hughes as he opened his first restaurant named ‘Garde Mager’ in the heart of Montreal in partnership with his two closest friends.

• Television stint – This popular Canadian chef has appeared on television though his cookery show called ‘Chuck’s Day Off’. It is a television series that showcase the expertise of the chef when he is out of his restaurant. Basically, he cooks the comfort food and amuses the audiences from his head-to toe food tattoos.

Popular Chuck Hughes Recipes

• Candy bar ganache rice pudding – This is one of the most popular recipes of Chuck Hughes. He showcases this recipe in his television show and it is quite a hit among audience. Name is lengthy, but like his other recipes this is also an easy one.

• Fried Chicken – A comfort recipe in his show during the episode “The Upstairs Neighbor”. This is actually an easiest recipe that includes chicken marinated in buttermilk. Chuck calls it ‘Canadian Comfort’.

• King Crab Bloody Caesar – This is the signature drink in ‘Grande Manger’ that is served with giant crab and fresh horseradish.

Chuck Hughes Trivia

• The greatest love of Chuck Hughes life is oyster. He regularly participates in oyster shucking contests and even shucked 1000 oysters at one such competition for charity.

• Chuck’s mother is his support at Grande manger, as she prepares all the desserts for the restaurant.