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ElBulli groupies will have to wait until 2014 to get their fill of sea-urchin foam.
Ferran Adrià announced Tuesday that he will be closing his mecca of molecular gastronomy in Roses, on the northeastern coast of Spain, for all of 2012 and 2013.
"No meals will be served in elBulli in 2012 and 2013," Adrià said. "But elBulli is not closing down. These are not two years on sabbatical. I need time to decide how 2014 is going to be. We want the year 2014 to stand out and I know that when I return it will not be the same.
"With a format like the current one, it is impossible to keep creating," Adrià told reporters at Madrid Fusion, Spain's annual culinary conference. "In 2014, we will serve food somehow. I don't know if it will be for one guest or 1,000."
"Restaurant Magazine" has crowned elBulli five times as the "World's Best Restaurant." The restaurant also holds three-Michelin stars.
While reservation requests for 2010 are no longer being accepted, information regarding reservations in 2011 will be posted in December. The restaurant is only open six months (June to December in 2010) -- Adrià and his staff spend the other half of the year developing recipes and new techniques in the restaurant's Barcelona laboratory.
For Ferran Adrià's complete action plan for the years 2010 through 2020, read the official elBulli press release.
[via AFP]
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1-28-2010 @7:48PM gobo said... People who eat at the best restaurant in the world are "pricks"? What does that make you, Larry, a douche for judging people based on their taste in food? Yep.
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1-28-2010 @8:26PM mary said... I'm not a foodie but I find this incredibly interesting. Fascinating someone could close up shop for 2 yrs to come back revamped with new ideas and products, not caring if it will reach 1 or 1000 people. Thin line between genius and madness.
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2-01-2010 @9:22AM chef rob said... If you have read about or studied Adria's food at all then you should understand that the restaurant closing is major news, but whenever he gathers ideas for two years and reopens it will be huge news and change fine dining restaurants all over the world. The man is a genious whose mind knows no boundaries. In 2014 Adria will move past changing food and change the entire restaurant world.
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