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How to Get Around the Wait at El Bulli

El Bulli uses a lottery to assign its six-month season of reservations—and every single one of them for 2007 has been assigned.
Lisa Abend
06.08.07
Keywords
restaurants,
spain,
europe,
lisa abend
travel + culture

One-Stop Shopping, With Tables Attached

A big trend is the combo restaurant and gourmet shop. And now the creator of one of Madrid's best Italian restaurants has gotten in on the act.
Lisa Abend
06.01.07
Keywords
restaurants,
madrid,
spain,
shopping,
italian
food + cooking

You Say Tomato, I Say What?

The most polemical news in Barcelona's newspaper La Vanguardia this week has to do not with the war in Iraq or the Sarkozy vs. Royal match-up, but with pan con tomate.
Lisa Abend
05.04.07
Keywords
lisa abend,
ingredients,
barcelona,
restaurants
food politics

What's Next? A Ban on Chorizo?

Endless articles in the Spanish press lament the passing of the Mediterranean diet.
Lisa Abend
04.30.07
Keywords
lisa abend,
health + science,
spain,
restaurants
food + cooking

Cherries on Top

Leave it to the Catalans. The same people to bring us spherification and the lollipop are now building a better cherry.
Lisa Abend
03.20.07
Keywords
ingredients,
fruit,
farming,
agriculture,
lisa abend
chefs + restaurants

Magic Moments from Madrid

Hundreds of chefs, writers, and critics turned out for Madrid Fusion, one of the most interesting get-togethers in the food world.
Lisa Abend
01.18.07
Keywords
lisa abend,
chefs,
spain,
ferran adria,
heston blumenthal