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Offered out of competitors on the San Sebastian Movie Competition below the title Genesis (Gènesi), the Catalan drama concerning the lifetime of world-famous chef Ferran Adrià has been acquired by Netflix in a uncommon transfer for the streamer, and can now arrive as Welcome to El Bulli on November 20, 2026 in choose areas together with the US, UK and most of Western Europe (test right here as as to if it’s coming the place you reside). Right here’s all the things we all know.
Over the previous 12 months, Netflix has regularly gotten again into the acquisition sport for its collection, after spending years specializing in productions of its personal. After a few Australian reveals and some AMC coproductions within the US, the six-episode drama initially generally known as Genesis (Gènesi) is the most recent to hitch the library. It’ll stream in a raft of territories, together with the US, the UK, Western Europe and Latin America, and the streamer may also carry the present completely on SVOD in Spain. It’s a well timed pick-up, too, with kitchen dramas like The Bear (FX/Hulu) having fun with international success.
What’s Welcome to El Bulli about?
Netflix’s synopsis for the collection reads:
The origins and rise of chef Ferran Adrià encourage this biopic collection about how he reworked El Bulli into among the best eating places on the planet.
The unique logline from 3Cat goes into extra element, revealing the present is break up throughout two timelines:
Within the Nineteen Eighties, a younger Ferran Adrià arrives at El Bulli, sparking a gastronomic revolution alongside Juli Soler that might propel the restaurant to international success. A long time later, in 2025, meals critic Glòria Canabach returns to Catalonia to reopen the household enterprise together with her niece, Lola. The 2 timelines intertwine in a narrative about obsession, resilience, and the facility of cooking to heal the injuries of the previous.
Netflix lists the collection below its Spanish, Drama and Based mostly on Actual Life classes, describing it as inspiring and tagging it as a restricted collection, so don’t count on a second season.
Who’s forged in Welcome to El Bulli?
- Enjoying chef Ferran Adrià is Miquel Fernández, who was seen in a supporting function within the 2018 Netflix film Mirage, and in each seasons of El Embarcadero, created by Cash Heist‘s Álex Pina.
- Enjoying Glòria Canabach is Mónica López, who has appeared in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s motion pictures and led the crime collection Rapa.
- Within the function of Juli Soler, co-owner and common supervisor of El Bulli, is Iván Massagué, who had supporting roles within the Netflix reveals The Gardener and The Crystal Cuckoo.
- Xavi Caudevilla and Daniel Bayona additionally obtain prime billing on Netflix’s itemizing for the collection.
- The forged is rounded out by Carlos Cuevas, Joana Vilapuig, Alex Brull, Alberto Díaz, Pere Arquillué and Mario Fuel.
Who’s behind the present?
Greenlit in 2025 to coincide with Catalonia being named a world gastronomy vacation spot, the six-episode present aired from mid-October on native channel and commissioner 3Cat, the place it delivered the broadcaster’s greatest rankings for a collection launch in three years. It was created by Eva Mor, David Pujol and Albert Val, with Pujol additionally serving as director.
What else do we all know concerning the present?
The present was produced with the energetic involvement of Ferran Adrià himself, who recreated some 80 dishes over the (foremost) course of the collection with the assistance of former elBulli cooks.
Talking to Selection forward of its screening within the Different Works part at San Sebastian, the director mentioned the present would body the eventual closure of elBulli, which got here whereas the restaurant was on the peak of its success, as a thriller.
Marco Arabit, whose firm New Regency holds the worldwide rights to the present and bought it to Netflix, advised commerce outlet C21 that the collection additionally units out to showcase the self-discipline of molecular gastronomy: “Some individuals consider gastronomy as ‘the extra refined, the higher,’ however with Genesis the reference to meals is deeper and extra significant. It reveals the viewers that meals can be a type of expression – it brings individuals collectively, evokes reminiscences and triggers feelings. It’s a narrative of legacy, household trauma, therapeutic, creativity and quite a lot of coronary heart.”
Lastly, a Guardian piece following the San Sebastian premiere famous that whereas the actual elBulli kitchen was calm and picked up, the present ups the ante with a much more frantic portrayal: “Some cooking scenes are oddly frantic, on condition that Adrià was not a shouty chef à la Gordon Ramsay, nor even barely within the rock’n’roll mode of Anthony Bourdain.”
When will Welcome to El Bulli be on Netflix?
All six episodes of Welcome to El Bulli will arrive on Netflix on Friday, November 20, 2026, simply weeks after the collection wrapped its unique run on 3Cat.
The acquisition isn’t fairly international, however the collection will probably be out there in most areas, together with the US and the UK (plus different worldwide territories).
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