Spanish celebrity chef Ferran Adrià is to close his three-Michelin-starred restaurant El Bulli for good.
Adrià announced plans to temporarily close the iconic restaurant for two years from 2012-2013 at Spanish chef conference Madrid Fusion last month.
Rumours were rife following the surprise announcement, with some spectators suggesting the chef would retire and hand over the reigns to his team.
However, in an interview today Adrià announced that he will be closing El Bulli for good replacing it with an academy for advanced culinary studies.
The Catalan chef, who has lead the way in haute cusine for almost 20 years, told the New York Times that he has made the decision to shut El Bulli permanently because he and his partner, Juli Soler, had been losing €500,000 (£435,000) a year on the restaurant and their cooking workshop in Barcelona.
"We had planned to use the two years to see how El Bulli could evolve,'' Adrià said. "We've been looking at many options, but yesterday we decided that the foundation would be the most satisfying.''
It's a sad day for the culinary world. But perhaps the start of something new and exciting.
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