The Basque Culinary Centre is the first university of Spanish cuisine. Located in the Miramon Technology Park, just a few minutes’ bus ride from the centre of San Sebastian, it was opened in September 2011 and is currently the main training centre for the future talents of haute cuisine, hospitality and the Spanish food industry. Some of the best chefs in the world, such as Alex Atala, Gastón Acurio, Heston Blumenthal, René Redzepi, Massimo Bottura, Michel Bras, Dan Barber, Yukio Hattori and Ferran Adrià, are on its International Advisory Board and are, in fact, its 'ambassadors' in and out of Spain. The five-storey and 15,000 square metre buildi

Very brave you have to be to compete with your culinary skills in a region of good eating and good drinking like Valladolid. For a few days in November, the Castilian capital further enhances its offer with the best of haute cuisine in miniature, as the centre for the National Competition of Kebabs and Bites, receiving only the most talented and imaginative. People able to recreate the planet Mars with egg dumplings and mushrooms or dress a vertical salad. The flavours in Spain (and the rest of the planet) concentrate in one place. Professionals come from around the country who usually serve in their bars. Besides choosing three winners, the best concept is valued, the most avant-gar