After initially dropping the earth-shattering news that he would close El Bulli for a temporary hiatus in 2012, Ferran Adria has apparently changed his mind and now says that he will close El Bulli permanently in favor of replacing it with an academy for "advanced culinary study." He says he was losing a half million Euros a year with his restaurant and would rather have that money go to his new academic studies. Whoa. [Eater National, previously]
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