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  El Bulli Foundation

El Bulli's Restaurant will close its doors on June 30, 2011, but on the exact same day, El Bulli Foundation, the new initiative by Catalan Chef Ferran Adrià, will open.

The foundation is the new challenge of this vanguard and internationally-rewarded chef that aims to investigate cuisine from the inside. Adrià presented the main objectives of his foundation to MadridFusión. With the motto 'Freedom to create', the foundation will work with an annual budget of between 600.000 and 800.000 euros The money will be invested directly by Adrià and his partners, Juli Soler and Albert Adrià.

To change a restaurant into a foundation means changing the appearance of the famous El Bulli. The restaurant will not be destroyed, but a new building will be constructed around it. Adrià explained that 'El Bulli' will become an 'archive' where visitors will be able to check the creations of the foundation. The area will also have a space for 'brainstorming' that from time to time, will operate as a cinema too. Finally, the most important place of all will be the experimenting area, where chefs, journalists, philosophers or marketing experts will come together to explore the possibilities of the vanguard cuisine

www.bullifoundation.org