Carme Ruscalleda i Serra is a famous Catalan chef of restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona. She also manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.
Ruscalleda was raised in a family of farmers and began cooking as a girl. She studied Charcuterie technics, as well as Commerce, and after marrying a grocery owner, Toni Balam, in 1975 convinced him to open a restaurant. Sant Pau opened in 1988, in 1991 it had obtained its first ...
more
Carme Ruscalleda i Serra is a famous Catalan chef of restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona. She also manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.
Ruscalleda was raised in a family of farmers and began cooking as a girl. She studied Charcuterie technics, as well as Commerce, and after marrying a grocery owner, Toni Balam, in 1975 convinced him to open a restaurant. Sant Pau opened in 1988, in 1991 it had obtained its first Michelin Guide star and obtained its third Michelin Guide star in 2006. Today she has five Michelin Guide stars, three in her restaurant in Catalonia and two for the one in Tokyo. The restaurant in Sant Pol de Mar has also obtained the maximum qualification, three suns, of the Campsa Guide in 1999.
Her cuisine is strongly based on Catalan tradition and nevertheless open to world influences, and focuses on quality and seasonal products and adding poetry to cooking. She often relates the dishes served to a leitmotif explained in the menu,...
less
