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And the Best Restaurant in the World Is...

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:41:43 CDT

After four years, El Bulli has been knocked off the pedestal: It was ranked the world's No. 2 restaurant in this year's survey of the 800 most influential chefs and critics. The new top dog? Copenhagen's Noma , which has been wooing foodies with its classic Nordic fare. Chef René Redzepi...

No Hiatus: El Bulli Will Close for Good

Will McCahill — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:41:00 CST

The chef behind the Spanish restaurant many label the world’s best now says he’ll close El Bulli in 2012, rather than just shutter it for 2 years. Ferran Adrià tells the New York Times he and his partner are losing more than $675,000 a year on the venture, which...

World's Best Restaurant, El Bulli, Takes 2-Year Break

Rob Quinn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:54:03 CST

Spanish chef Ferran Adria stunned the world of fine dining by announcing that his celebrated El Bulli restaurant will be closing for 2 years after the 2011 season. Adria—creator of dishes like squid ravioli, turtle dove with blackberry caviar, and freeze-dried foie gras—says working 15-hour days has been...

El Bulli Repeats as World's Top Restaurant

Jason Farago — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:15:04 CDT

For the third year in a row El Bulli, the restaurant-cum-chemistry lab outside of Barcelona, has been named the world's best restaurant. Feran Adrià's "gastronomic temple" got the top gong from a group of 700 chefs and critics. For Bloomberg's food writer El Bulli is "highly technically accomplished," but fundamentally...

The Bulldog Beats Out The Duck

NewsDude — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:42:22 CDT

For the second straight year, El Bulli of tiny Cala Montjoi, Spain, is No. 1 on UK-based Restaurant Magazine 's annual rankings of the world's top restaurants. The Fat Duck in Maidenhead, England, is second. Of the winners, 37 are in Europe, and 8 are in the US. Australia has...