About Felix Meana
May 27th, 2009 by HHG
Felix Meana (fiancé) – I’m from a small town on the Costa Brava in Catalunya, Spain, called Roses. This is where the restaurant El Bulli is located and where I have been working as a chef de rang for the last five years. I owe a large part of my professional experience at the highest level to El Bulli. I say “part” because my initial experience in this career was 15 years earlier in this same town as a co-owner of a bar with my brother Cesar called L´Hort D´En Minguets. My desire for adventure and travel then led me down another path for 8 years to a ski resort in the Pyrenees, Pal & Arinsal, in Andorra. While at the ski resort, I was promoted to Assistant-Director of Restaurants.
Coincidentally, working in a ski resort allowed me to have the summers free to continue gaining experience in other venues of hospitality such as working in beach-side hotels, bars, and restaurants. As I gathered more and more experience, I decided it was time that I learned about fine dining and service and what better opportunity than to work in the best restaurant in the world which also happens to be in your home town? El Bulli was an amazing opportunity that I would have to take advantage of and which would eventually lead me to other great opportunities around the world such as in Madrid at La Terraza del Casino with Chef Paco Roncero for a year, or in Washington (where I met Katie and started talking about this project) with Jose Andres and Think Food Group for the last two years. I took advantage of these opportunities in the periods of time that El Bulli was closed for 6 months in the off season. The past two seasons with Think Food Group led me to make the decision to “abandon” El Bulli and commit to a full year with Think Food Group in the opening and development of The Bazaar by Jose Andres in the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA as the Director of Service. I finished my position at The Bazaar in January of 2010 and moved to Asheville, North Carolina to put all of my enthusiasm, hard work, and preparation into the much anticipated project of opening this restaurant with Liz and Katie so we can make our dreams a reality and share with others our concept and idea. I hope you will join us soon and enjoy and share your time with us.
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April 12th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I can attest to Felix’s amazing abilties as I had the opportunity to work with him closely as the Director of Catering & Events at SLS Hotel. he brought a level of umcomparable service to our restaurant.
Asheville, NC watch you are in for a real treat.
April 12th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Thank you! According to Felix the admiration is mutual. We are all thrilled to have Felix in our lives and agree that Asheville will be greatly served…..literally!