Dinner For $23K With Spanish Chef Ferran Adria
Chef Ferran Adria
Someone paid $23K just to have dinner and spend time with world-renown Spanish restaurateur Ferran Adria. Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong revealed that a bidding on Wednesday to dine with Adria reached 180,000 Hong Kong dollars or $23,200.
Ferran Adria used to own the now-closed restaurant elBulli, rated as the world’s best five times by British magazine The Restaurant.
Ferran Adrià is the most inspirational and revolutionary chef of our time, a totally original mind in contemporary gastronomic history. He brings Science and Cooking together in an exciting embrace, an untiring explorer into the realms of taste, combining raw curiosity with academic rigour and all the senses with emotion.
The proceeds of the auction will go to the elBulli Foundation. The restaurant was not enough for this exceptional man and the elBullifoundation will advance further, going to the heart of gastronomic creativity, nursing culinary ideas and bringing them to fruition.
Another ticket to the dinner will be auctioned off April 26 in New York. You can bid here.