Consistent with the name of Enigma, Albert Adrià keeps mysteries, not about the reopening date, which will be June 7thbut about the content. The last of the greats to return, in a return expected by ‘gourmetism’.
On Thursday they revealed the reservation process and in just six hours 500 people asked for a place: “Someday we already have a waiting list”.
Adrià is afraid to say ‘adrianadas’, that is, to tell something that seems valid today and will expire in a month, so he sticks to what he is sure of at the moment: “There will be two services: food at noon and cocktails in the evening.” afternoon [‘tardeo’, escriben en la web] with plates. I no longer want to go home at one in the morning & rdquor ;. He points out: in an “eat and drink” schedule; in the other “drink and eat”. And they will give El Bulli cocktails movement: “Silly for not having done it before & rdquor ;.
The facility is designed quirky, labyrinthine, architectural, which in the previous stage conditioned the service: the places were visited as if they were little chapels. The intention now is freedom of movement, and of choice: There will no longer be a tasting menu, or ‘disgust menu’.
On the web they write about ‘fun dining’ (fun food) instead of ‘fine dining’ (haute cuisine), even if we lower the soufflé: they will be one and the other, “with an average bill of about 150 euros & rdquor ;.
In the absence of specifying what-exactly-will-be-eaten, he proposes an equation: “What I am going to do is Enigma + 41º + Tickets”. That is to say, techno-emotional cuisine + cocktails (41º was the cocktail bar) + high altitude tapas. “And well-known dishes & rdquor ;. What does that mean? “A pizza, a hamburger and a ‘nigiri’, with acquaintances? Although it does not mean that I am going to do ‘nigiris’, eh & rdquor ;. Wait for new chairs to expand seats, changes in lights so that midday is different from the evening-night…
That will be in June and for July, another novelty, a coffee shop without a name (with the experience acquired in La Dolça, which was the sweet part of Tickets, and Cake & Bubbles, in London), located in Diagonal with Enric Granados: “There will be coffee and two cakes: one chocolate. We want to dignify the work of barista”. If it is not ready for the beginning of summer, the opening will take place in September.
The collapse of the El Barri group resulted in sales and transformations: Tickets is now Teatro, managed by the Iglesias brothers; Hoja Santa is Come, directed by Paco Méndez, and Bodega 1900 is closed after a short time as Bodega Lito, a time that ended due to the illness of its owner.
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