Ferran Adrià crowned the world's best chef

Ferran Adria and Albert Adria at the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant awards on 20 April 2009.

ElBulli Chef Ferran Adrià, author of A Day at elBulli: An insight into the ideas, methods and creativity of Ferran Adrià, has won The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2009 award, topping a worldwide poll of 806 chefs, critics and industry experts for the fourth year in a row.

This highly prestigious world-renowned award was announced by Restaurant Magazine at the Freemasons’ Hall in London on the evening of 20 April 2009. As Paul Wootton, Editor of Restaurant Magazine says “The 50 restaurants, according to our panel of more than 800 experts, offer the greatest dining experiences on the planet”.

Situated on a remote beach on the northeast coast of Spain, elBulli is famous for being the ultimate pilgrimage site for food-lovers, and a reservation that is nearly impossible to obtain.  Each year elBulli is open for just six months, and receives more than 2 million requests for only 8,000 seats.

Revealing for the first time the creative process, innovative philosophy and extraordinary techniques of elBulli and its legendary head chef Ferran Adrià, A Day at elBulli: An insight into the ideas, methods and creativity of Ferran Adrià presents a journey through a full working day at the restaurant — from a shopping trip at sunrise to the markets to the meticulous preparations of ingredients, from inside Adria’s secret workshop to last-minute creative sessions, and from cocktails on the veranda at dusk until the last late-night guests leave. It is generously-illustrated over 600-pages, and features over 1,000 photographs, menus, recipes and diagrams.

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Join Juli Soler, co-author of A Day at elBulli at a lecture and booksigning of the Italian edition of the book:

6pm, Thursday 7th May 09
Istituto Cervantes
via Nazario Sauro, 23
Napoli, Italy

For more information go to: Cervantes