Ferran Adrià

I love this article from the LA Times, which quotes various reviews from individuals who have eaten at El Bulli, supposedly the best restaurant in the world, which is located north of Barcelona, Spain. It sounds like quite the experience. Some sample reviews:

• "You come out thinking 'what do I do now?'" -Anthony Bourdain (Travel Channel)

• "It might not have been the best meal I've ever eaten, but it was the best something. I just don't know what" -Tim Savinar (San Francisco Attorney)

• "Going to El Bulli is like going to an amusement park. I like to go once a year to an amusement park. If someone goes every day to an amusement park, though, they have a psychological problem." -Carlo Petrini (Friend of Ferran Adria)

• "It's like the black stone of Mecca, Mona Lisa's smile, the nucleus of the atom, the bank vault, the oval office of the White House, love and sex . . ." -Pau Arenos (Barcelona journalist)

• "I had a reaction similar to mourning, as if I had been allowed into an enchanted garden for one evening and had then seen the iron gate close irrevocably behind me when I left." -Andreas Viestad (Washington Post)

• "When we tasted a delicious mackerel, my wife told me that she tasted something strongly unpleasant, which I couldn't taste. Shortly after, feeling ill, she went outside and didn't finish her meal. She spent the night violently ill." - Francois Audouze (French collector of wines)

To be fair, the article points out that, to date, nobody has died as a result of Ferran's molecular cuisine.