El Bulli Closes

 El Bulli Closes

 El Bulli Closes- "The most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet", El Bulli  was a Michelin 3-star restaurant near the town of Roses, Catalonia, Spain, run by the world's greatest chef Ferran Adria closes. The small restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay on Catalonia's Costa Brava, will mark the end of a remarkable 27 years with a special sitting for staff and their families. The restaurant is closed as of July 30 2011, to reopen as a creativity center and culinary think-tank in 2014.

The beach side restaurant has topped a renowned World's 50 Best Restaurants list a record five times by the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants produced by Restaurant magazine, based on the opinions of some 800 chefs, critics and industry experts. The restaurant, which specialised in molecular gastronomy and culinary foam, opened for only six months of the year. This resturant each year saw two million hopeful applicants for just 8,000 dinner reservations at the restaurant two hours drive from Barcelona. Despite its reputation, it never turned a profit.

On 31st July 2011, El Bulli was relaunched as the El Bulli foundation, a "gastronomic think tank" and a center of research dedicated to creativity and expanding knowledge of the pioneering culinary techniques created within the restaurant across the globe.