elBulli to close for two years

The internet is flooded with the latest news from the land of gastronomy. Ferran Adrià has announced he will be taking a sabbatical in 2012-2013 and that El Bulli will not be opening for either season. So the world’s number one restaurant will be closed for two years.
During a speech at the international culinary congress Madrid Fusion Summit, Adrià outlined his plan for the years 2010 to 2020.
The internationally renowned chef said he and manager Juli Soler had decided to commemorate the 50th anniversary in 2012 of ElBulli’s conception with the “closure of one cycle and the beginning of a new phase in which a radical approach to the creative process and the pursuit of a new challenges”.
Under the plans ElBulli will open this year from June 15 to December 20. The opening calendar for next year will be released this September. In 2012 and 2013 the restaurant will be closed to the public and reopen in 2014.
In the Guardian’s ‘word of mouth’ blog, the author suggests that the closure is “the logical conclusion of its highly studied exclusivity. At present it is only open for around six months out of every 12, and only for one sitting at dinner. Two million people have applied for the 8,000 spaces available for each season over the past few years. Being realistic, therefore, the likelihood of you actually being able to eat there has been close to zero for a long while. By closing the restaurant Adrià will achieve a kind of perfection. It will now be so exclusive that absolutely nobody will get to eat there.”
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