That's How It Happened

...sadly include El Bulli:

"We regret not to be able to full fill your reservation request for 2008. The extraordinary demand that we has received at the first moment of our management has again surpassed our limited capacity for one season."

As per instruction, I emailed them between 12.00 a.m. and 12.01 a.m. on October 13th to request a table next June. They currently get something like 500,000 requests for 3,000 tables during their limited season so I was not surprised to be rejected. Their charmingly misspelled ungrammatical rejection email goes some way to softening the blow. My annual assault on the World's 50 Best Restaurants has completely stalled this year,