Ferran Adrià Albert Adrià, Oriol Castro and Juli Soler

From 1997 onwards, the elBullitaller project had made great strides in the Barcelona Aquarium, where their catering firm was based. The project was being consolidated, but the catering division was growing, as was the Workshop, and they were meanwhile tackling other activities (collaborations, consultancy, books, etc.). This is why, in late 1998, they bought one of the floors of an 18th-century town house in the calle Portaferrissa. The alterations took a year, and in January 2000, they were finally able to move in. The personnel increased with the intake of a large proportion of the elBulli staff during the winter. In elBullitaller they began to combine cooking creativity for elBulli with creativity applied to their other divisions, and they formed two distinct teams.