Spain's financial crisis is eating bitter national upscale restaurant scene, top up with another owner said he would have to close at the end of August.
Barcelona's famous outside the restaurant's website published a statement is blunt: "The Can Fabes say goodbye."
Fabes' closure is the latest in a small but growing list that has seen the famous eateries such as El Bulli, it was named the world's best restaurant five times magazine restaurant disappear until it served its last supper in July 2011 among the reports, this is too expensive to run.
Spaniards are very proud of their food - well-prepared food is almost a national obsession - top chef is a celebrity among all classes. But Spain's economy has been in dire straits because of the collapse of the construction industry in 2008. Unemployment rate is 27.2%, more and more people are willing to spend their hard-earned money on luxuries such as fine dining.
Are expensive upscale restaurants to eat, but they are also expensive to run, often associated with the number of employees is equal to customers sitting at tables.
Since 2011, at least six famous Spanish restaurant shocked the public by shutting down or declare them in doing so the edges. This includes three institutions about two dozen of the famous Michelin Guide in Spain has been awarded a highly coveted two or three-star status.
To Alberto Le Hermogenes, edit, Spain's most famous restaurant guide, which is a "supersonic" the loss of one of the country's high-end restaurant, he expects the financial crisis in the coming months consume more. "End the crisis, the most high-end concept has changed, too," he said.
Of Can Fabes has been a huge hit when it's founder and renowned chef, Santi Santamaria, who died in February 2011, while in a restaurant kitchen at the helm, he had just opened a heart attack in Singapore .
Santa Maria's death and Spain combined with economic problems, seems to have proved too big an obstacle to overcome by the chef and his wife and partner, Angel Sierra carefully designed business model.
Founded in 1981 as an informal bistro in his ancestral home village, 53 km northeast of Barcelona (33 miles), Sant Celoni self-taught Santa Maria Can Fabes 7 years after winning its first one Michelin star.
Chef's uncompromising insistence using only the finest ingredients, his deep respect for the Catalan regional production soon lead to greater recognition and saw him win and maintain an almost unattainable Michelin three-star state from 1994 to 2011, continuous.
Santa Maria's death heralded the first question, the loss of one star. At this stage, his empire has burgeoned, including restaurants in Barcelona, ??Madrid and Toledo in Spain, as well as in Dubai and Singapore, apart from the original one.
Chef's family - his wife, his son Paul and daughter Regina - trying to get Maria's legacy alive, hired chef Xavier Pellicer and re Frenchman Jerome Bondaz's. However, one by one, they lose restaurant, the original tavern, and in August 31 must be closed, they said.
"The crisis has affected us badly," Maria's daughter told the Associated Press reporter on Saturday. "While we still retain a tiny hope, financial backers will come forward to invest in this dream, we must accept, cuisine, at this level for a huge operating costs."
, Metropolis restaurant guide editors, Le Hermogenes said, "I'm sure, El Bulli's lost money, and Madrid's most upscale hotels are battered and survive only because they succeeded in attracting about 90% foreign customers.
"I went to Santa Maria's restaurant recently only two tables occupied."
Three-star restaurant for very little money, on their own, says restaurant critic 维克多德拉塞 Nadu, for decades has been written under a pseudonym Fernando point. "They need to support activities - cheap branches, advertising contracts, catering, publishing - to make a profit," he said. "These are slashed in a steep recession, and go to the famous restaurant."
DE LA Serna said it was "miraculous", a list of top restaurants have been in Spain after six years of recession such as this short, "Now."
Agency specializing in avant-garde cuisine is particularly difficult position. Spain epitome of avant-garde revolution by the Ferran Adria of "molecular gastronomy", which includes striking foam injected nitrogen tidbits and deconstruction omelettes.
"Avant-garde movement, driven by easy money because cheap credit, said:" Without it, I doubt that El Bulli or any of these top restaurants will make Gerry Dawes, New York Film Critics website "Publish Insider's Guide to Spanish food, wine , culture and tourism. "
Dawes forecast, there are few top restaurants likely to survive the financial crisis in Spain. "People go there to the prestige that they will try the food," he said. "
Chef Sergi Arola illustrated how serious the recession has reached the luxury restaurants, trade, when he announced last month that his two-star restaurant in Madrid, stomach, will have to close because the tax debt of 150,000 euros ($ 197,000) . Other recent collapse shocked Spain, including the highly rated restaurants, such as horse racing, Balzac and clubs 31.
Many of Spain's top chefs latest news of casualties hedonism expressed disappointment.
"The Can Fabes world cuisine made history, said:" Salvador de Can Roca Seiler, "restaurant" magazine the current rate, the world's best restaurant, chef Joan Roca. "Off indicates that the crisis is so unfair."
 



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