history

an stablished style

1998
Los secretos de El Bulli, Los postres de El Bulli.

1998
Las 50 nuevas tapas de Ferran Adrià.

1998
The beginning of our work at the Hacienda Benazuza.

1999
Borges: the first of our consultancy services to major brands.

1999
The cover of El País Semanal.

1999
The cataloguing starts.

2000
Work starts on the elBulli General Catalogue.

2000
elBullitaller in the calle Portaferrissa.

2001
Lunchtime closing.

2001
Collaboration with industrial design.

2001
elBullicarmen.

2002
The first part of the General Catalogue is published.

2002
The retrospective year.

1999. The cataloguing starts. In 1999 the snacks, tapas, dishes, desserts and petits fours that we had created along the way were now profuse, and we had often thought that it would be useful to categorise them somehow. We had of course kept the recipes for each of them, but it had not yet occurred to us that it might be a good idea to catalogue them as well. The occasion to tackle this task arose when we were organising the menu for the Hacienda Benazuza restaurant, when we thought of offering some of elBulli’s "greatest hits" as it were. So we began to review our output year by year and started giving a number to each recipe. This task was fundamental when we decided to tackle our General Catalogue and the first evolutionary analyses.

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The menu of Hacienda Benazuza, 1999.