Within the mid-2000s, Ferran Adrià’s restaurant El Bulli reigned supreme among the many pioneers of modernist delicacies. When the restaurant, which is partly chargeable for placing gelees and foams and spherified issues on pretentious menus in every single place, closed in 2011, Adrià turned it into El Bulli 1846, a museum that was “designed to be the best ecosystem for creativity,” as he instructed Eater in 2017. Now, he’s turning that museum into… an Airbnb, for one evening solely.
Two very fortunate restaurant obsessives will get the “once-in-a-lifetime” alternative to sleep inside El Bulli 1846, atop a plate-shaped mattress. The supply is a partnership with Airbnb, which introduced the small print of the ultra-exclusive keep this week. In accordance with the itemizing, this expertise at a “legendary area that sparked a culinary revolution” is just accessible for one evening, and people in search of to e book the keep must enter a lottery to be chosen for the privilege. Airbnb isn’t charging for the keep, however they’ll must get themselves to Roses, the tiny Spanish city the place El Bulli 1846 is positioned (automotive service from a close-by airport to the cliffside constructing shall be offered).
In accordance with an Airbnb spokesperson, the one who enters for the possibility to attain the free evening at El Bulli 1846 should be at the least 18 years previous, have an energetic Airbnb profile, and “a great observe file on the platform.” Nonetheless, I’ve many different questions, listed under so as of significance.
What the hell is happening with this mattress?
Once you’re sleeping inside El Bulli 1846, an area that encourages guests to “mirror on the themes of gastronomy and innovation,” per the web site, it’s cheap to anticipate that the mattress goes to be bizarre. However this “plated mattress,” allegedly impressed by the restaurant’s well-known liquefied olive dish, goes far past bizarre. Based mostly on the image included with the press launch, it seems to be like a 1700s horsehair mattress sitting on prime of a serviette. Are these pillows constructed from wooden?
Why isn’t Ferran Adrià cooking dinner for his Airbnb company?
The El Bulli 1846 expertise doesn’t truly embody dinner cooked by Ferran Adrià. On the one-night keep, company will journey to an unnamed close by restaurant that’s apparently a favourite of the chef’s, which appears ridiculous if you’re already sitting inside a temple of contemporary gastronomy. The subsequent day, company are invited to Enigma, the Barcelona restaurant from Albert Adrià, Ferran’s brother and a fellow big-deal chef. But when I’m touring all the way in which to Spain to sleep inside at El Bulli 1846, one thing higher be getting spherified or poofed right into a foam inside these 4 partitions.
Why isn’t there a bathe?
In accordance with the itemizing, the keep at El Bulli 1846 shall be a barely smelly one, as a result of there are not any bathe services on the property. That is smart, as a result of this can be a museum that was once a restaurant, however certainly there’s a close-by lodge outfitted with bathing services? You imply to inform me that the hypothetical winner goes to be compelled to fulfill Ferran Adrià, and sleep inside one of many fanciest eating places on this planet, whereas smelling like stale airplane peanuts? Brutal. (The itemizing does notice that company shall be supplied with a “private care equipment” to make sure their consolation. And but, I’m not tremendous comforted by that.)
No, significantly, what’s up with this mattress?
Why is the underside so ruffly? What’s its weight capability? Will there be a blanket (there isn’t one pictured) and in that case, will or not it’s edible?
Is that this simply going to be The Menu: The Actuality Present?
There’s something ominous about this itemizing. I’m not making an attempt to finish up being became s’mores by some deranged chef who’s uninterested in cooking for bratty, boring hyper-elites. As such, I can’t be signing as much as put my physique onto what’s clearly only a human-sized plate.
