This summer, Somerset House will host a major retrospective exhibition on a
global icon of gastronomy, Ferran Adrià, and the restaurant he built to become the world’s best, elBulli. In partnership with Estrella Damm, elBulli: Ferran Adrià and The Art of Food is the world’s first exhibition dedicated to a chef and his restaurant. The retrospective will showcase the art of cuisine and cuisine as art by taking a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary laboratory and kitchen of the internationally renowned restaurant, which delighted diners in Cala Montjoi, a small picturesque bay on the Catalan coast near Roses, for over 50 years.
In total, the elBulli team invented 1,846 dishes and in doing so, they led the culinary revolution which has inspired and influenced a generation of chefs including Heston Blumenthal, René Redzepi, Joan Roca, Andoni Aduriz, Massimo Bottura and Grant Achatz. Under Adrià’s leadership and creative direction, elBulli was voted the world’s best restaurant five times by
Restaurant magazine and the restaurant received over 2 million reservation enquiries for each summer season that it was open.
Embankment Galleries West, Somerset House, London
5 July – 29 September 2013
Tickets on sale now at £10 available online from somersethouse.org.uk
Opening Hours: 10am – 6pm, Daily.
Late night openings on Thursdays until 9pm.
Transport: Temple, Embankment