{"id":2077,"date":"2010-02-14T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T11:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2010-02-14T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T11:49:33","slug":"the-end-of-el-bulli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-end-of-el-bulli\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of El Bulli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/loremipsum\/842440178\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1161\/842440178_cf23889436_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/loremipsum\/842440178\/\">El Bulli 2007<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/loremipsum\/\">loremipsum<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/spain\/7231085\/Worlds-finest-restaurant-El-Bulli-to-close-permanently.html\">El Bulli will close down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it&#8217;s been rated the world&#8217;s best restaurant for several years, I&#8217;ve always had a desire to go there, but I had to contend myself with a book about it Phyllis gave me for Christmas two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it was inevitable, though.  That type of innovative cuisine can&#8217;t stay at the top forever, so they had to choose between slipping down the rankings at some point, or closing while they were still at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the academy they&#8217;re creating instead will eventually lead to even better restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Bulli 2007 Originally uploaded by loremipsum I&#8217;m sorry to read that El Bulli will close down. Given that it&#8217;s been rated the world&#8217;s best restaurant for several years, I&#8217;ve always had a desire to go there, but I had to contend myself with a book about it Phyllis gave me for Christmas two years ago. I guess it was inevitable, though. That type of innovative cuisine can&#8217;t stay at the top forever, so they had to choose between slipping down the rankings at some point, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}