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El Bulli, a Spanish restaurant in Spain, is considered the most famous restaurant in the world. It’s run by Chef Ferran Adria, who is considered the most famous chef in the world….and is located in Roses, Spain, and, is called a holy Mecca for food lovers. An architect of molecular gastronomy, the restaurant's 35 course menu was created and designed by Chef Adria to surprise and enchant his guests, who come from all over the world.

El Bulli only serves dinner and has less than 50 seats, and makes only one sitting. They book approximately 2,000 bookings a year and receive over 400,000 applications. Visitors can expect to pay about 150 dollars per person to eat there. El Bulli is closed from October to March and take reservations for the following year in October, which are filled in one day. The restaurant itself has operated at a loss since 2000, with operating profit coming from El Bulli-related books, and lectures from Chef Adrià. As of April 2008, the restaurant employed 42 chefs.

Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, and Albert Adrià published "A Day at elBulli" in 2008. The book describes 24 hours in the life of El Bulli in pictures, commentary and recipes. Among the recipes included in the book are melon with ham, pine nut marshmallows, steamed brioche with rose-scented mozzarella, rock mussels with seaweed and fresh herbs, and passion fruit trees.

El Bulli was founded in 1961, by Dr Hans Schilling, a German, and his wife, who wanted a restaurant for a piece of land he had purchased.. The name "El Bulli" came from the French bulldogs the Schillings owned. The first restaurant was opened in 1964. The restaurant won its first Michelin star in 1976, while under French chef Jean-Louis Neichel. Ferran Adrià joined the staff in 1984, and was put in sole charge of the kitchen in 198. In 1990, the restaurant gained its second Michelin star, and in 1997, its third.

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Ten years ago, you had to go to El Bulli to sample dishes like avocado foam or apple caviar. But that was before Ferran Adrià of El Bulli transformed the culinary landscape of Spain and the world, bringing science and a playful sensibility to food and dining. Now his experiments are re-interpreted in countless dishes spanning almost every culture.

It’s been said that a visit to El Bulli requires a willingness to suspend the reality that eating is a basic fundamental of life, something we do in order to survive. There is little about a meal here that bears any relationship to notions of eating for living. It’s an experience that will give you sensual and intellectual pleasure. Perhaps the fact that inside, you get little sense of the physical beauty, just beyond it's deliberate to make sure that you concentrate on what’s on your plate. For this is definitely food you’re meant to pay attention to.