There came a time when we became aware of the need to have a space to continue to grow creatively and to innovate in parallel with the active pace of day-to-day service in the restaurant. The birth of El Somni was visualized and functioned as an embryo of La Masia in 2012, which a couple of years later, in 2014 and 2015, would host the creative and logistical development of the restaurant’s first two world tours with its entire team in conjunction with BBVA.

In this traditional Catalan house from 1898, built into a triangle without distances from Can Roca in one vertex—our past, the roots—and El Celler de Can Roca—our continuous present—we have a space that looks into the future, and which also works as a meetings center to gather projects. It has a scientific laboratory and a demo test kitchen that works as a classroom on Tuesdays to host and share master classes with the trainees, and the rest of the week for the development of new culinary projects and research. The upper floor has a reference library and a transversal creativity room for the development of new projects.

Tuesdays for the Team

On Tuesdays we share time and space with our teams at La Masia (i+R), which we conceive as a parenthesis in the hectic and precise rhythm of a restaurant of the kind. In this parenthesis, we find vital deep reflection and share training, values, dialogue and creativity with our dining room, kitchen, management and communication teams. It is an opportunity to listen to them and to take care of ourselves emotionally with the guide of an expert in emotional management for elite teams, Imma Puig, who helps us release the pressures of success and sharpen the gears and relationships of our complex human machinery. We share our experiences of the week, we present the new dishes straight out of the Roca Lab to the dining room team, teach cooking techniques, and share our philosophy. For our trainees, Tuesdays’ programming at La Masia is a complement to their practical learning in their daily activities at El Celler de Can Roca.