Montserrat Fontané and her sons

Montse, Roca Brother's mother, started working in the family business, Can Batista, when she was 13. Shortly after, she moved to Barcelona, where she learned to cook in her elder sister's restaurant. It was there that she fell in love with Josep, a man everyone knew and liked, and they got married not long after. At that stage, they could never have imagined that their children would not only follow in their footsteps in the restaurant business, but that they would go on to achieve worldwide recognition.