Luxury dining is guaranteed at a Costa Brava eatery that has just been awarded the title of the best restaurant in the world for the third consecutive year.

Ferran Adria and his Roses restaurant El Bulli have been given the top award in the 2008 San Pellegrino world’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, organised by Restaurant magazine.

Adria’s unique style of laboratory cooking in which parmesan cheese is shaped like spaghetti and carrots served as foam has boasted Spain’s ratings in the global gastronomic hierarchy.

Paul Wootton, editor of Restaurant magazine, Farron Adria deserved the award for the third successive year. “He offers such an extraordinary eating experience in his restaurant and what is also important the service and the setting are top notch.”

El Bulli’s constantly evolving menu has been described as “the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet”.

Spain also features highly in the top ten with Andoni Luis Adruriz and his Mugaritz restaurant in San Sebastian in fourth position.

Votes for this year’s award winners were cast by some 700 top chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and restaurant critics.

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