The restaurant El Celler de Can Roca turns 40 this 2026, and Josep Roca is thinking about the song To pave the way Borja Penalva's poem (based on a poem by Maria Mercè Marçal) serves as a metaphor for everything they've experienced. The story begins in 1986, when the brothers opened what was their dream. They weren't far from their family's support; they were right next door, adjacent to their parents' restaurant, the Can Roca of old, as the people of Girona call it. They've told the anecdotes from those early days countless times. There were few diners, or none at all, during the first services. They spent hours playing foosball, the legendary foosball table, and some days they even convinced friends to come for lunch.