El Bulli Announces 2 Year Closure

El Bulli Announces 2 Year Closure
Ferran Adria, widely regarded as the worlds best chef has announced he will close his 3 Michelin Star restaurant El Bulli for a period of 2 years in 2012 and 2013. The restaurant caters for 50 covers a night and is only open for 6 months of the year. The only way to make a reservation is through their website which receives a many as 2 million requsts a year.
The reason for the closure according to a press release on the El Bulli website is to radically change the concept and direction of the restaurant, "closure of one cycle and the beginning of a new phase." But Ferran stated at Madrid Fusion, the annual international culinary conference focusing on the cutting-edge in haute cousine, that he found working the 15 hour days "difficult" and "It's impossible with the current format of El Bulli to continue to create".
One thing is for sure though, the food world waits with baited breath to see what 2014 has in store at El Bulli.