El Bulli reopens, but NOT as a restaurant
The news had been circulating for a while, but now it has finally been confirmed: Ferran Adrià is reopening his world-famous restaurant El Bulli in the Catalan seaside town of Roses. But NOT as a restaurant.
The chef – who is considered one of the founders of molecular cooking – is sticking to his position from 2011: cooking menus day in, day out for 28 years was not conducive to his creativity. But the new project is all the more so.
Experiment
Adrià has acquired an additional plot of land to transform the former three-Michelin-starred restaurant into an ‘exhibition lab’: a workshop and exhibition space where experiments with new recipes, ingredients and techniques are carried out and subsequently shared. “I want to share all my knowledge with the new generation of chefs, but because not everyone has access to training, we are distributing the information in this way,” Adrià told the Spanish newspaper Cinco Días.
Private dinners
1846 refers to the birth year of Auguste Escoffier, one of the most famous French chefs and the founder of modern French cuisine. Does it sound like your thing? From February 2020, you can visit the former restaurant, where thousands of documents, centuries-old recipes, videos, kitchen utensils and a Bullipedia website with all kinds of facts and trivia about food and drink will also be displayed.
So is there really nothing to eat? There is hope: the chef told online food magazine Eater that they will occasionally organise private dinners and other events.
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