Spanish celebrity chef Ferran Adria is to reopen his once world-famous elBulli venture next year – but not to serve food.
The former three-Michelin-star restaurant on the shores of Catalonia’s Costa Brava, once considered the world’s best for four years in a row, will instead house a laboratory and museum of culinary innovation, Adria said on Jan 28. “The mission of ‘elBulli1846’ is ... to create quality knowledge of restaurant gastronomy and everything that surrounds it,” the 56-year-old Catalan said before going on stage at the Madrid Fusion gastronomic congress.