A Final Feast at elBulli

elBulli
Bobby Ghosh for TIME

Cocktails on the Terrace
Before moving to the dining room, the 51-course meal begins outdoors. Here, a server puts the finishing touch on elBulli's "gin fizz": a hot, thick, lemony foam. On the tray are the restaurant's famous spherical olives — the essence of olives reconstituted within a thin gel that pops with flavor once in the diner's mouth.

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