Bye bye Bulli
After shocking the world of culinary fashionistas a few weeks ago by announcing that his restaurant El Bulli would close for 2 years, Ferran Adria drove the nail in a little harder this weekend by telling The Wall Street Journal that actually the restaurant would be closing permanently. To many people this seemed almost as bizarre as the culinary creations which Ferran is famous for but as he admitted to the WSJ unfortunately he wasn’t making any money. Now lets just examine this for a moment. Voted the best restaurant in the world, that’s worth repeating, the best restaurant in the world! Fully booked for every meal service that it is open and not only fully booked but a waiting list of wannabe diners of TWO MILLION every year and he can’t make a profit? I’m no rocket scientist but it seems to me that something is wrong here! Either Ferran is not much of a businessman, or he is being driven along to the gates of hell by the food writers, critics inter alia or someone has got bloody rocks in their head! On Friday he said he decided to close the restaurant for good because he and…
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