Not long after the Miami episode of Netflix’s hit show “’Street Food: USA” dropped, its Emmy-nominated director Mariano Carranza received an Instagram message. It was from Gastón Acurio, Peru’s preeminent chef-restaurateur of Astrid & Gastón fame, but Carranza thought it was a prank. It turned out to be the man himself. His request: “Could Carranza …
The Drinks Business
01 March 2021 By Alice Liang
Jordi Roca, the famed pastry chef of the three-Michelin-star El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, is launching a pop-up chocolate shop in Hong Kong.
Opened last year in Girona, Spain, Casa Cacao is a luxury chocolatier owned by chef Roca, who won the inaugural ‘World’s Best Pastry Chef’ award from The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards in 2014.
The shop combines a chocolate factory, shop and café with the Hotel Casa Cacao on its upper floors, directed by another member of the Roca family, Anna Payet.
Adopting a bean-to-bar philosophy that echoes the farm-to-table movement, chef Roca and his team source selected cacao beans from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, the Dominican Republic and India.