It’s strange…The world’s best restaurant – voted as such for four years in a row- is set to close in two years!  El Bulli, a Spanish restaurant owned by Ferran Adriá, will be closing its doors as a normal restaurant and will be turning into a private foundation.

This announcement was made at the Santiago Gastronomic Forum on Monday, shocking food lovers and restaurant critics alike. The new foundation, according to Adriá, will be a non-profit venture and futhermore, he’d like to create a new encyclopaedia, dealing with the advances in cuisine over the past 15 to 20 years.  Whatsmore, he’ll be holding congresses and will introduce 25 scholarships for chefs and waiter every year.

It’s great news for food lovers, the once incredibly exclusive “best food of the world” is now diffusing through the levels and those who can’t get on the infamously long waiting list for El Bulli (nor afford the steep (to say the least!) prices) will maybe get the chance to eat at the restaurant of a Adriá-trained chef – which isn’t too bad!

Ferran Adriá’s food isn’t necessarily typically Spanish food.  He works a lot with molecular-gastronomy – working with science to give foods new flavours, new textures and potencialise their richness.  In fact, in his new Gastro-University, there’s even a lab to work on these processes!

Beautiful Spanish food

Though we mustn’t forget that Spanish food is some of the best in the world! The ham, the cheese, the paella… It’s for this reason Mester Spanish school include a cookery class in their activity programme.  Here you can learn how to make some of the best Spanish food for when you’ve finished your Spanish course and are back home missing the pinchos!