Most acclaimed chefs Ferran and Albert Adria of El Bulli restaurant (in Spain) are planning to open a local in the Dominican Republic as part of the La Playita luxury development in the Bayahibe beach resort area.

Ferran Adria, who will start teaching a course in culinary physics at Harvard University beginning in fall 2010, recently announced that he will open a new nonprofit educational foundation in 2014 that will strive over the long-term to create an “exhaustive and detailed” encyclopedia of contemporary cuisine.