Best Chef Awards: Catalans win big
El Celler de Can Roca and Disfrutar restaurants win three prizes, with their cooks among the five best in the world
Catalan cooks won big on Tuesday night as Barcelona hosted the 2019 edition of the Best Chef Awards.
El Celler de Can Roca, a restaurant in Girona, and Disfrutar, in Barcelona, received three awards and had their chefs among the top five ranking.
After two years in a row leading the Top 100 list, Joan Roca was dethroned by Björn Frantzén, from Sweden, as the Best Chef of the World. David Muñoz, from Madrid, was third.
Jordi Roca, the youngest among the three Roca brothers in charge of El Celler de Can Roca, was named Best Pastry Chef and helped secure at least one prize for Catalonia’s most internationally recognized restaurant.
"We have an entire team thinking about desserts, about doing our best work every day. I want to share this prize with them," said Jordi Roca after receiving the award.