After his successful pop up at Hotel Cafe Royal in 2016, the famed chef Albert Adria – who built a gastronomic revolution alongside his brother, Ferran, at the legendary Michelin three-star elBulli – returns to London to launch a permanent site, ‘Cakes and Bubbles’, this November. Adria, who was voted The World's Best Pastry Chef by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, runs an empire of restaurants which range from the perpetually sold-out avant-garde tapas bar Tickets, to Hoja Santa, a modern Mexican table that was awarded a star in the 2016 Michelin guide, and his lauded latest venture, Enigma. Cakes & Bubbles marks Adria’s first bricks and mortar establishment outside Spain.
Cakes & Bubbles adds to an exciting culinary programme at Hotel Cafe Royal, which has been developing with increasing fervour over the past few years. In addition to Adria’s previous project in 2016, the Roca brothers of El Celler de Can Roca brought their famous Girona-influenced cuisine to the iconic hotel that same year. Cakes & Bubbles also joins newly opened Laurent, a 110-cover restaurant helmed by internationally renowned French chef Laurent Tourondel that debuted in June 2018.