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'World's finest restaurant' El Bulli to close permanently
The Telegraph ^
| 2/13/2010
| Harriet Alexander
Posted on 02/13/2010 7:39:02 PM PST by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
Not that I’ve eaten there but I never understood that exalted status this guy has. Cooking with liquid nitrogen? Flavored foam? To each his own I guess.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:43:10 PM PST
by
paul544
To: bruinbirdman
To: bruinbirdman
But after two decades leading the gastronomic charge, Mr Adrià has decided to close the restaurant from the end of next year. He says it was losing half a million euros a year -aWhy not close it now and save yourself a million?
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:44:05 PM PST
by
Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
To: bruinbirdman
From what I had read somewhere, Adria made no money from the restaurant, rather from the books he sells. I guess the restaurant is now such a burden he has to close it. Perhaps local taxes are also killing the business. Spain is broke after all.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:44:58 PM PST
by
ABQHispConservative
(A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
To: bruinbirdman
Sounds like BO’s kind of food. Metrosexusl BS! Time for a bail out. This article made me hungry for a cheeseburger.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:45:13 PM PST
by
albie
To: bruinbirdman
can expect a riot of up to 30 dishes such as Parmesan marshmallows, popcorn clouds, lambs brains with sea urchins and sea grapes, and chocolate sablet with verveine and hazelnut.
interesting. but does it actually taste as good as this? :)
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:45:54 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Chris Wallace: I can tell you, Ronald Reagan would never have quit.)
To: bruinbirdman
I don’t know but something doesn’t add up? The food also sounds like crap. But then again sometimes I enjoy eating at the Waffle House, go figure.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:45:55 PM PST
by
WHBates
To: bruinbirdman
Wow. Hope-n-Change in breaking out all over.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:46:09 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: bruinbirdman
“He says it was losing half a million euros a year”
So why are they closing down?
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:48:21 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: bruinbirdman
Has he been a judge on Top Chef or a challenger on Iron Chef America? Done a throwdown with Bobby Flay?
If not, he is just bush league!!!
(lol)
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:48:23 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: bruinbirdman
how good can this place be? I didn’t see chicken fried steak with cream gravy on the menu...
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:51:37 PM PST
by
Crapgame
(What should be taught in our schools? American Exceptionalism, not cultural Marxism...)
To: WHBates
It’s like abstract art. The food may taste as bad as the art looks but all the critics go gaga over it.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:52:21 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Chris Wallace: I can tell you, Ronald Reagan would never have quit.)
To: albie
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:54:37 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Chris Wallace: I can tell you, Ronald Reagan would never have quit.)
To: bruinbirdman
I guess I’ll just have to settle for Cracker Barrel from now on.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:58:36 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
To: ari-freedom
That looks delectable! I want that.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:58:37 PM PST
by
Allegra
(It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
To: WHBates
I appreciate fine food, well prepared from the best ingredients, but a lot of this type of stuff just seems like the height of pretentiousness. Of course, a lot of people would say the same thing about some of the stuff I like. Heck, some people think Big Macs and Kraft Mac and Cheese are the height of good eating.
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posted on
02/13/2010 7:59:07 PM PST
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: bruinbirdman
This is not going to make the lamb-brain-with-sea-urchin aficionados happy...
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posted on
02/13/2010 8:00:26 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: bruinbirdman
Eh, I’ve never been big on the whole “molecular gastronomy” field that chefs like Adria embrace. There is a cleverness, even a sort of wizardry, to some of the stuff they come up with, I will admit. But for me, fine dining and great cuisine doesn’t have to be a pretentious magic show. It’s interesting that Adria developed a tobacco-blackberry crushed ice. It doesn’t mean I’m going to fawn over the dish itself and it sure doesn’t mean I’d rather have that than a plate of good Spanish paella.
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posted on
02/13/2010 8:00:58 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: albie
Sounds like BOs kind of food. Metrosexusl BS! Time for a bail out. This article made me hungry for a cheeseburger. If it aint burgers and fries or biscuits and gravy, Im not touching it.
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posted on
02/13/2010 8:01:16 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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