Chef Paolo Casagrande, associated with the three-Michelin-starred Lasarte restaurant in Barcelona, ​​will head the new establishment replacing Teatro Kitchen & Bar, located on Barcelona's Paral·lel Avenue. Teatro Kitchen revolutionized Catalan gastronomy by offering a creative menu designed to be eaten with just two fingers. In fact, the restaurant, run by Oliver Peña, earned its first Michelin star in just two years. Chef Paolo Casagrande, who will be in charge of the culinary direction of its successor, says that the new restaurant, which will belong to the Orobianco group, will offer a tasting menu as well as other options.

I interview chef Òliver Peña (Rubí, 1981) before lunchtime at the restaurant he advises, Can Bo, located inside Barcelona's Grand Hotel Central (Via Laietana, 30), which has a very unusual history: the hotel had been the private residence of politician Francesc Cambó. It's a noucentista building, designed at the beginning of the 20th century, very innovative, where Cambó based his stays on the upper floors because he installed an elevator—the first in the city, I'm told at the Grand Hotel.