"To think of shutting down an establishment just to drink a Coke...I find it absurd." Top chef Jordi Cruz thoughtfully welcomes Bill Gates, but the web mogul continues fasting. This is a chronicle of a (failed) Michelin-starred dinner.
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The Three MICHELIN starred chef of Barcelona's ABaC restaurant, during an interview on the Planeta Calleja program – hosted by the famous Iberian mountaineer and presenter Jesús Calleja – revealed a "burning" anecdote involving the American Tycoon.
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"Have you ever received special thanks from particular customers?" asks Jesús to the chef, and here Cruz's answer takes a whole other tack. "There are people who are full of money and perpetually bored with everything, who place little value on the work of others," he begins the story. "Some time ago, Bill Gates came to the restaurant escorted by as many as 25 bodyguards: his entire entourage. He booked the whole place just for him. We had prepared our best to meet his every request. And do you know what he did? He ordered a Diet Coke and went back to his plane."
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Cruz, given the occasion, had prepared a special menu expanding on their "ordinary" €295 tasting menu, which usually ranges from whipped hazelnut butter with caviar to flame-roasted guinea fowl with corn, foie gras, sesame and black mole sauce to lollipops with strawberry kakigōri, milk chocolate and Tonka beans. The chef, visibly annoyed, continues, "To think of shutting down a fine establishment to drink a simple Cola? I find that absurd. In any case, as always, I am satisfied with the result: my team did their best."
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