Aaron interviewed Chef Carlos Raba the Owner of Clavel, Nana, and founder of Baltimore Guardians. We talked about his early childhood, moving to the USA, career path, and what he has going on now! He was the 2022 James Beard Award Semi-Finalist. This is a must-see episode!
Chef Carlos Raba was born and raised in the Mexican state of Sinaloa by his mother and her four sisters. He learned to make tortillas by hand in his uncle’s restaurant and picked up classic
Mexican recipes like cochinita pibil and lengua from his aunts and grandmother. Raba’s mother was a journalist who was critical of Mexican politicians, so fearing for their lives, she sought asylum and moved the family to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. when Raba was 17.
After he graduated from high school, Raba attended business school for a year and then began working in grocery stores. He started at the Whole Foods in Kentlands, Maryland, trying his hand at different roles—butcher, fishmonger, cheesemonger, and eventually store manager. He
then moved to Giant Foods and worked at various locations for five years. Tiring of the corporate life, his business partner Lane Harlan convinced him to use his creativity and family recipes to open Clavel in Baltimore in 2015. In a Converted American grill, Raba serves the same shrimp ceviche recipe that his familky taught him when he was 6 years old, along with other Sinaloan specialties in a relaxed, communal setting. In 2017, Raba was named “Best Chef in Baltimore” by City Paper, in 2018 Carlos Raba was name also name “Rising star chef” by Star chef publications and on 2022 Carlos Raba was a “James Beard” semifinalist.
Carlos Raba also a practitioner of Brazilian jiujitsu, hold a black belt first degree under Vicente Jr team and his passion for jiujitsu lead him to Co-found Guardian Baltimore a 501(c)3 nonprofit
martial arts gym in Remington, Baltimore that offer classes in Brazilian jiu jitsu. The gym is free for kids ages 6 – 18, and offers affordable sliding-scale memberships for adults. the space was founded on the belief that almost everyone wants to be a part of a tribe, and they work daily to
serve as a vital space for their community.
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In front of me Mr Carlo Carlos Robert what’s going on sir how you doing man thank you for having me I’m doing great busy like you say you’re a busy guy man trying to hustle yeah and you were the owner of one of the most popular spots
Clavel yes sir in the city so I’m yes I’m a partner and I’m the chef there uh yeah a great spot yeah working working a lot I have the nonprofit Guardian I have Nana coming up so yeah man trying to stay busy I love it man you’ve been
Doing so many great things I love going to the restaurant um I if people don’t know when I did the vice TV thing I was like they were like you got to pick four restaurants to go to what the four and I said got to go to your restaurant Gotta
Go toell Gotta Go there yeah you had a good time too oh we had a great time you showed us how made the the tortilla Chris oh my good and with the food was Del with Chris I know man the food was delicious we had a great The margaritas
That’s what that’s one of the things I like like going to tables like I I I don’t remember a lot of stuff like I have like my short memories not that good but I do remember a lot of conversations with people like and then it’s one of the things that I enjoy with
I I loved it I loved it man so tell us a little bit about you let’s let’s get let’s get a little bit about you where you from tell us like were you born were you raised well uh was born in uh Mexico City um my mom my mom is from caloa the
Nto Mexico but she moved to study in Mexico City uh I moved to the north when my dad uh uh got murdered uh on a home invasion and then my mom chose to move to calua where the family was so from 3: to 15 17 I moved between kakan and masan
Uh and then I came to the states as a political refugee uh with my mother so a long story she was a journalist persecuted um she never Remar a fighter um she had five sisters so that’s where like the whole food and stuff come from
Because my two of the sisters is five of them my my mom and four sisters um one of the husband uh had at a restaurant so I used to get dropped off there and and I saw my grandmother cooking and my Ants so that’s the whole food scenario but
Yeah I immigrated here on uh when I was 17 uh to the mtom County area so I went to Blair High School yeah shout out to Blair um and yeah man I hustled from there through through the industry of food with Whole Food about seven years and then Giant and other like seven
Eight and then uh adventured with with Lane to to open a little green building that that like nobody had Fate on and then uh we open I mean uh nine years almost ago really yeah man eight years it’s going to be eight nine yeah so yeah
I had my son Lucas and he was probably like nine months 10 months he had an hour like quit everything Lane was yeah let’s open like quit your job we we going to crush it I was like damn so yeah I quit everything mve the family to
The top and hustle wow so I mean there’s so many different angles we could talk have this story in the conversation I guess one thing that really sticks out to me that you said was you know your family your uncle the restaurant and you you your mom had four sisters so
Everybody cooked that’s kind of like how I was raised like not but like it was like family everybody cooked my uncles were the cooks of the family yeah man and my uncle could cook a meal at 2 o’clock in the morning with like four ingredients and just make it happen and
Like just like you know just make it happen eat for like six of us and he’d be like all right all need some chicken some rice I’ll make my gravy and he would just make a like meal is that something you like really just remember like growing up like just how you make
Meals out of nothing or uh I mean I see meals as as as great memories because my family was a family that very very weird very weird family because we were so close it was kind of weird because the sisters decided to buy five houses on a compound with a pool and I
Grew up with my cousins it was like 16 of us growing up my uncles used to have the restaurant and they used to come on Friday start like planning for Saturday carada to watch Julio SAR Chavez fight on the 80s 90s and they used to go Saturday until Sunday but they used to
Do like start with aiche then do carada kadas uh all the stuff man but I I did that eight years nine years of my life my grandparents used to come all my friends in and kakan used to join the Privada and it was amazing so all that
Is like I related with with memories I remember I remember the food but it’s like that’s that’s the beauty of food that is like most of the time probably my my dearest memories is with on a plate on a table so so that’s that’s how
I see it and then through taste I think that that you see it like oh I remember this and like you start saying what do I taste okay boom so yeah the dishes I see them like that and then time Evolution like I think I have evolve as a as a
Business owner as a person as a cook but then it’s just when you develop a little bit more of the taste and and like you making a film you’re if you listen to your podcast from 3 years like oh man what I was doing I don’t even listen to
It I I don’t even listen to anything from 100 below I won’t I won’t listen to it I I I refuse to listen but they are so important because they The Roots You know what I’m saying but they are so different because you mature as a person
On the task that you’re making so right so it’s like maturity and and I think it has it has gone a little bit I seen and I think I could see it through CL clavel when like you see the menus and what I’m doing and and the way that I go now with
The menu uh like keeping it simple keeping it traditional keeping it Mexican keep it affordable too for people to come and enjoy it so that’s is that’s one of my my drives have people enjoying it drinking eating we we’ll talk about CL in the second part we’ll
Talk we can’t give everybody the first part they got you go to listen to the next second part of it but we’ll get to clal because we’re definitely going to talk about that we’re going to talk about other things you you’re in to we’re going talk the second part but the
Other part is that when you moved here and how how hard was it for you to adjust to America when you got here oh as a as a teenager it was hard for me because I mean I had two I didn’t have any issues but I had two similar two
Personalities or like two stuff that was unique that I was a white uh Mexican okay and then that I was an immigrant as well so when I came to Blair there was no Mexicans no and he was like white people like no you’re an immigrant like and then there that happens right okay
And then Central Americans didn’t like as much Mexicans because they cross Mexico and then some horrible stuff happened so I like no look at the Mexican and I was like a skateboard kid so they like oh so it was kind of hard but I I I wrestled and I did Sports uh I
Play football a lot of football uh because I play football in Mexico I play football from my freshman to my senior and varsity I came in I started on Varsity I didn’t even know how to talk they used to play put the plates in my arms
Uh yeah man and I wrestle and and I focus I used to go to school from I don’t know 8 7:30 to two and then I used to work in Subway across the street making sandwiches for 3 hours and then I used to go back and train and I did that
For for three years wow so is that something like just going through the process you get out of high school you worked you said you worked for Whole Foods for a little bit Yeah work for Nordstroms I sold shoes in Nordstroms and I would made a lot of money that’s
Why I quit college yeah like selling women’s and kids shoes and he was like by he was by um by percent commission and it was me and my brother no kids it was just work a fulltime doing commission and and just hustle I mean I
Could sell shoes so like I will like you will come with your kids and I will tell you man there’s some beautiful hair Miss Tuesday they will look good on you you want to see them yeah bring them to me so so they to say so you hustl them
Though but I mean it’s like you have a great back day hustling mentality you knew how to make that sale you have to be I I I grew up I grew up uh very very lucky I had money they had well I didn’t have no money well my family had the
Needs they gave us everything we had and and and we didn’t never need anything that we want you know what I’m saying so when I came here I really want to steal the V of that and show my family that that I can still do it by myself and not
Be dependent of that so I mean it came with a lot of struggles I mean there were days a couple of days we homeless I live in a shelter with my mom and my brother in Detroit so there’s a lot of it’s like a book that you go to like a
Climax and then a settlement and then you go to the end I mean I don’t read a lot but my mom was a writer and told me that but uh you know what I’m saying it’s like no I love it everything is like it roughing up like and and that’s
I think the what has shaped me to that’s what I was going to ask you do you think all that from your past from working in Nordstroms quitting College working at Whole Foods giant being homeless not knowing where next meal could possibly something maybe did that shape you of
Who you are right now you think yeah I think that there are goods and bads about it you know what I’m saying not everything is positive but yeah he he he shaped me up Jiu-Jitsu has helped me a lot shaping up to my my the the way that
I see stuff because I’ve been doing like 16 years is the is the stuff that that I do you know what I’m saying so it helped me a lot age okay my family mean Claudia my kids uh uh and me getting all their on 40 men I started with cl when I was
34 3 33 yeah man I was young you were definitely young and I’m still as passionate as I was when when when I was 34 it’s different ways that the passion comes and and the way that that you see and the way that you get invested into
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He was athletic sports guy you look at right now he’s pretty cut right now um you know I feel like I gota go back to the gym looking at him right now but just talking about his trial trip relations he’s gone through as a a youth
And where he is now we talk a little bit about the famous restaurant we’re going to talk about it now because L people going to want to hear about you and about how this how did this all happen with you and Lane how did you guys meet
Like tell us about how this transition how you guys met and how the best top that one of the best restaurants in the city was born well uh uh I was working uh I was working in DC um okay with Giant Foods okay I was remodeling stores
For them and I was doing no Street and I wasn’t I wasn’t too happy how stuff were going on that field and uh and I had a cousin that had a restaurant in New York and I was like man it’ll be cool to open a a restaurant in New York kab kalaka
Cab is my my cousin and he was pretty successful man with a little 10 seater uh and I was like he’s passionate so I was like I want to do something like that and then Lane came I like I have a building it’s like I’ve been going to
This building and sitting and trying to buy the building and this guy like doesn’t want to sell it but I going to convince him and get ready because we’re going to open a mexic uh it was going to be like a bar with a with a taco place I
Like okay boom and she would like one day hey building got it when are you quitting your job come and talk to me and I came had a coffee and then um and then just quit my job and told my wife and my wife yes you’re doing it she was
Like you have to do it like you cook and how you do stuff you’ll be successful I like okay so we move and then you have to just turn it I mean you drop everything we move all the way here had to sell cars change the way the we spend
Because you don’t understand you open a restaurant that’s right um so yeah and then uh coris became clel uh with the hard work of like us it was like Lane Matthew myself and Lane’s family and and just going to work the dad doing things I’m doing things my brother sometimes
Coming and help and like then hustle people like the food and little by little keep pushing it and and evolution like I told you clavel has like probably three four different stages because everybody had one with Co you know what I’m saying so everybody had like two Transformations during Co you know what
I’m saying all restaurants I see that they had the First Transformation there was the reaction and it was the plateau that like we got it we can survive and then it was like getting ready to open up to the new people and then new people
Because not every was the same I mean we all were impacted to some kind of way in in Co so everybody that works in restaurants has gone through that and clavell did it as well too you guys I will say you had the best I don’t know
How long it took you to figure this out you had the best takeout setup like the pull up you pulled up you called or whatever it was and they were bring the bag out to you number 35 you would you didn’t have to get out your car so funny
It you know what I’m talking about right yeah because that was dope I thought it was it was funny because the the way that uh happens and I going to tell you hell this happened uh the clavel crew was in Waka uh with Lane I think before
Co they came back and she was about to come back and I think in the the Sunday all the mess happened and the Monday we started closing and I just I was like what are we going to do was like like I don’t want to serve tackles because
Tackles was in trouble as well and ATT was like a amount of money that is not enough to not have all the customers coming so what am I going to do and I swear in my life that I was never going to serve burritos and I was like damn so
I got a portion it up one for like make it bigger $ 1314 and I was like let’s start like doing burritos and and call it pisor which is uh we used to have a market in kakan in the corner they used to be called stop and run so you will
Come you will stop your car go to the garage you will tell the guy what to what he want and then you will tell them to have beer and they will put it on the cooler put ice on it and then we’ll get you snacks and whatever you need so and
Then you will go and I was like one of the things that that night was like we want to call it P cor like St wrong yeah I mean it was really efficient yeah like what I mean efficient you you would go pull your car up open the trunk open the
Trunk yeah they would Pop the trunk it would put it in and they keep on rolling like it was like the first day it was crazy it was like a lineup like at the street is like crazy because he was it was like the same stage that like as a
Business owner and all the rest of mour saw they like at the beginning every all the support was huge you know what I’m saying boom boom boom boom boom and then he dropped because we didn’t know how long this was going to be so it was a
Lot of and then this stimul checks came and boom Another highrise you know what I’m saying stul check so you was just think about the the the the stress level for everybody not only like for me but everybody on on the business it was like okay busy busy busy dead again and then
Buy bu bu then boom I remember cuz I had is was really awkward time because I had reached out to Lane and I said hey I would love to have you on the show and it was like right when Co was like weird and she was like Aon I’m sorry I can’t I
Gotta figure out how I get my employees get them paid and I was like I respect that yeah I mean and like I said I remember that that was like her number thing was like Aaron I need to get them paid I need my employees to make
Sure I Tak care of them oh yeah I mean it was a a huge uh thing is like that everybody went out and went home with a pay the people the people that uh went home uh they got they got paid for for a couple of weeks and that came out of the
Out of us and and it was just sitting down on a table and coming to to an agreement when it was like tough tough tough days very tough days you know what I’m saying and then and yeah no and I and that’s when all the the changes how
We see labor and how we we we pay people in clavel and at night so it’s like you guys weren’t take out originally were you no that’s that’s another thing you guys would never take out so yeah no we were no takeout uh that came from the
Third building because he was first he was only corkys and the the garage and then third building the third building so I remember yeah so like cuz I mean right now I mean your business right now how your takeout business is pretty big right now probably right it I mean it’s
It varies because you you want to have a balance okay you know what saying because you don’t want to have the to go affect the experience of the person eating a meal and coming to experience the building so two different things so my uhuh so my my focus is always for the
Person who comes and has the and has the seat down and and see the place and have the dream drinks and and because I mean there goes there goes effort for everything everything that the the in the decor the the Lan puts everything on the food on the drinks that the team do
We put a thought into it so it’s not is it it’s a good experience I I want people to come and enjoy the food and take it home but I really really want you to come in and enjoy this place because I’m trying to bring my love to
My country and the memories that I have to you through the plate and then laying her passion through mcal and Mexican Waka through her drinks and her team so yes Lord let let me tell you everything he’s saying right there my stomach’s growling we went there for
Vice TV we had I remember I remember this like like yesterday you had the ciche that was some fresh shrimp I think was a shrimp that you had just got no no it was the the shrimp yes that I went to so we get the shrimp I got from I got
From alata caloa which is in what and it was Rockfish also it’s yeah it’s Chile Roo which is delicious let me tell y’all something I’ll pay $100 for that thing I ain’t G say a lot anybody that’s a VJ yeah a lot of people yeah that’s
One of B in that that’s how good that that became a classic but there was so many things that like that that came as a Evolution that I from like the family food to me started evolving as a as a cook Chef as a person to doing dishes
Like that or dishes like I have now the one with camote and sweet potato that I nalized the sweet potato so you know what I’m saying there’s there’s a lot of process and it’s sometimes it’s very frustrating and then sometimes is rewarding too when people like the food
Uh I mean I I like when you guys had the crackling the pork skins and the tacos that that brought me back from my Southern Roots is nothing like having pop like just eating the taco and having the the pork skins a little in there and
And he fires me up because like you’re like you’re talking about food you know what I’m saying something that I enjoyed when I was little it was like my mom used to write a whole when you open the section the middle section of the newspaper it was my mother the whole
Thing and she used to type it Friday and Saturday and drop it off Saturday to be publicized on Sunday without being edited so she would go boom she used to be such a good writer drop it off so she used to work late night she used to drop
Me off with her grandmother and I like takas but like Street takas like like carada like tro stuff like that and right now I have like this hunger of of of of like creativity and I’m doing n of the project on Thousand okay so like it’s amazing I heard I heard we’ll talk
About let’s talk about it’s the evolution of like how you see yourself and like how you evolve into into what you want to see like right now want cre has a place that like you sit down you have a tackle and then you go like I
Used to go with my grandmother sit down like we want to wait for your mom I don’t want to cook dinner we’re going to go walk to blocks have a taco and come back you know what I’m saying and that neighborhood is like the perfect for that it’s college right college no but
It’s also to and a little I leave a I live around there and then it’s like a pocket of a city you know what I’m saying there is pretty cool there a lot of people are walking and stuff like that and and people are like are they
Excited because I used to be restaurants there and they close them so like I used to work with my mom and have a sandwich there and he’s so excited that you want to make like Mexican food I want to do with thiser chickens and stuff like that
So it’s on York Road 6901 York so it’s like the old school building ah okay so so it’s also too it’s how the responsibility as iol to what I take like the restaurant with with clavel and and what the building was very different with like um building from 1920s and
Trying to bring it back to his Beauty like he didn’t have no windows he didn’t have anything wow so I red the whole inside to a beautiful Takia that I that I that I that I enjoy you know what I’m saying it brings me memory of my Ants
Too because I did it with colors of like kakan and masan so yeah very excited about that but it goes into the same conversation they were having like Evolution like I never saw myself like expressing myself as I express myself not only through the through the restaurant and Jiu-Jitsu but also
Through like feeding people and seeing people enjoy my food let’s talk about the nonprofit talk about how they all started talk about it oh that is that just let’s talk about it cuz I think I want to bring your wife in for that one I I want to interview her for that one
But give us give give a sneak we’ll bring her in for the whole story I’ve been I’ve been training Jiu-Jitsu 16 years I’m a first degree black belt under resented Junior and um I did Jiu-Jitsu and yamasaki academy uh which is in rville and I have a really good
Friend Ben coex okay um Ben kovak believes that uh every child should have the right to do a martial art okay and it’s Jiu-Jitsu uh why because the the change that does to us that we do ji- jits for many years years and to the community that we have in Jiu-Jitsu um
With Guardian is a organic relationship because we don’t the kids they don’t pay anything we give them their geese we also feed them burritos from clavel when they when they doing good stuff um so is uh they interested about Jiu-Jitsu adults are interested they don’t have to
Commingle but they see each other coming in and out hey how you doing they see them growing I have kids that they’ve been there for three four years and is is sometimes very good seeing them grow and having Jiu-Jitsu and being able to have a safe environment for them
When there’s not a lot of places in the city that provides it so it’s very important us as a community just to not only take but also give and trying to have the evolution of my restaurant or all the community has to evolve with me and I think I’m trying to implement that
With a with a nonprofit it’s been up in 3 years and we’ve seen over 200 kids 65 kids right now um and it’s amazing if you gets to impact me the way that I am and impact the friends that I have uh and I can impact a kid since the age of
Six be it man and and that’s what Empower sometimes it’s Harden because you see that there is not a a good way out from some of the kids for through the system of the city and even if you help them a lot is is a chance that that
They will fail but also I’m creating a community where one of those kids can meet a person that is interested and say you know what let me teach you let me be your Mentor you know what I’m saying or you know what I’ve been SE here for years now we have
An organic relationship you you’re really good at Jiu-Jitsu I can roll with you I have fun with you they’re like hey man what are you interested oh video man I’m you’ve trained with the best lawyers you trained with special forces you trained with teachers you trade with
Professor from Hopkins uh you know what I’m saying the network is amazing so you can create a network for the child uh that you never know who’s going to be helping him I love I love everything about that and what I would like to do is actually set up bring the cameras to
This to this studio and we’ll sit there and just talk see the kids go at it man we we love to do that let we should we should do that we’re going to do that is a sport that puts you in positions that no other sport puts you because
Somebody’s trying to choke you uh somebody’s trying to break your arm so the way that they react and the way the brain works and the dopamines and whatever you put in the brain that helps you make the decisions they develop it and they help him make better decisions
I think that’s what it did to me we’re going have to get you want to get your wife LA on we get to talk about it and we’ll have Luda uh Luda I mean we have great teachers Luda Todd he’s one he’s one great guy that cares about kids I
Brought him from Rockville he’s been teaching kids for about 12 years okay very passionate so he a it’s a really it’s a very different Community from glavel but it’s as strong as the community of glavel so so so so it’s pretty pretty self rewarding when you
See that so you you have my word we will record there starting the 2024 we we’ll be there you’ll be welcome to come there we’ll do it told we also doing yoga uh so we do a 730 with with with with with jug inst structures because they W9 so
They donate 30% of their of their classes and what they make and then they get paid by us 70 70% of it so it’s a win-win because they also help the community with their own work so we have Justin Temple upstairs great people love I love I love that you’re giving back I
Love giv kids options to learn something new something to be a part of a family community and I love hearing that about that it’s important you have so many things so when is the restaurant in talson going to open looking I mean looking with the Lays of the historic
Building BG and and and other malfunctions uh probably in a couple of months I’m looking for two three months hopefully by the end of the year we we open uh I’m going to be doing popups because I’m starting doing the the menu so you’re going to see me in junion uh I
Going to do some CH uh desserts with the chory uh in the neighborhood so to give him a little taste and start getting my hands into it and and get ready and excited I love popups let us know maybe we can coordinate we’ll coordinate this episode with the popup maybe yeah man
Let’s do something like that and I definitely love what you do love everything thank you for your time to hanging out yeah man and where can people find you on the worldwide web I mean I have my Instagram yto ra uh also I mean uh M was around uh
Come to clavel I be there come to Guardian uh help Guardian help the program Guardian baltimore.org uh 501c3 and uh in York and uh 6901 in Nana is going to be amazing for the neighborhood in the city too in tson I love it so you
Can’t I’m not you off the hook yeah cuz we have a speed round we do a speed round all right yeah ice cream or snowballs ice cream what’s your favorite flavor strawberry strawberry okay all right do hot dogs have ketchup or mustard uh man you’re going to put me on the I
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To hang out and we really appreciate you coming on the show we’re definitely going to do something at the at the the Guardians and hang out and go just do a live show there talking with people and whatnot think it really cool is just really good div Vib understand what you
Guys have going on so we would truly appreciate what you’re doing for the community and we’re very happy that you’re over that new spot also and is sharing your culture and your flavor and your food really appreciate that thank you for allowing me thank you to the
People that com and support all right folks love peace we’re Out the I’ve been blinded by diamonds in my eyes