Will Ferran Adrià's new restaurant make number one?

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Will Ferran Adrià’s new restaurant make number one?

Friday, March 4th, 2011

World-renowned chef, Ferran Adrià, whose restaurant, El Bulli, spent four years at the top of the rankings for the world’s best restaurant, has opened a new restaurant in Barcelona. The venture, in partnership with Adrià’s brother Albert, a renowned pâtissier, comprises a tapas bar called Tickets, and a cocktail bar called 41º.

Situated in the old theatre district of Barcelona, both establishments are sprinkled with a touch of the theatrical. With six separate areas, Tickets is nothing short of a culinary theme park. In the avant garde area, for example, guests will be served bite-size portions of “hedgehog with avocado and mint jelly, baby cuttlefish with onion in ink and almond pasta” and “Manchego cheese ice cream”. Another mysterious area is designated for “swines and rogues”, where, according to the whimsical press release, guests will be greeted by servers who “will make flattering comments, as Romeo to Juliet”. Brother Albert’s sweet section meanwhile, is decorated with “a big top and cotton candy machines”, where diners with a sweet tooth can indulge in wafers stuffed with praline and nougat ice cream, honey syrup and homemade ice cream from old ice cream carts.

41º is described in equally hyperbolic terms, as “a magnificent volcano of creativity, ideas and hopes.” The cocktail bar will serve both traditional cocktails, and more avant garde ones. “We think that the world of cocktails is increasingly present in Barcelona”, say the brothers.

If the success of soon-to-be closing El Bulli is anything to go by, their popularity will soon be going up even further: the waiting list for Adrià’s previous establishment was an entire calendar year.

Image courtesy of Flickr.com.