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 liable 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 advised 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 provide is a partnership with Airbnb, which introduced the main points of the ultra-exclusive keep this week. In keeping with the itemizing, this expertise at a “legendary area that sparked a culinary revolution” is barely obtainable for one evening, and people looking for to guide the keep should enter a lottery to be chosen for the privilege. Airbnb isn’t charging for the keep, however they’ll should 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 keeping with an Airbnb spokesperson, the one that enters for the possibility to attain the free evening at El Bulli 1846 should be a minimum of 18 years previous, have an lively Airbnb profile, and “a superb observe document on the platform.” Nonetheless, I’ve many different questions, listed under so as of significance.
What the hell is happening with this mattress?
Whenever 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 high of a serviette. Are these pillows constructed from wooden?
Why isn’t Ferran Adrià cooking dinner for his Airbnb visitors?
The El Bulli 1846 expertise doesn’t truly embrace dinner cooked by Ferran Adrià. On the one-night keep, visitors will journey to an unnamed close by restaurant that’s apparently a favourite of the chef’s, which appears ridiculous while you’re already sitting inside a temple of contemporary gastronomy. The following day, visitors 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 best way 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 keeping with the itemizing, the keep at El Bulli 1846 shall be a barely smelly one, as a result of there are not any bathe amenities on the property. That is sensible, as a result of this can be a museum that was once a restaurant, however absolutely there’s a close-by resort outfitted with bathing amenities? You imply to inform me that the hypothetical winner goes to be compelled to satisfy Ferran Adrià, and sleep inside one of many fanciest eating places on the earth, whereas smelling like stale airplane peanuts? Brutal. (The itemizing does observe that visitors shall be supplied with a “private care package” 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 if that’s the 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 become s’mores by some deranged chef who’s uninterested in cooking for bratty, boring hyper-elites. As such, I cannot be signing as much as put my physique onto what’s clearly only a human-sized plate.