Becoming a Chef: Julián Otero Inside the World’s Most Provocative Kitchen

🎙️ EP150 - Julián Otero isn’t here to make you comfortable. As creative chef of Mugaritz, he serves ideas disguised as food—sometimes brilliant, sometimes brutal, never safe. At the most controversial restaurant in the world, the dish isn’t finished until you eat it.

🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:

🎙️ Intro – Meet Juliano Otero, creative chef of Mugaritz

🤳 Gastro Cringe – calling out bathtub tiramisus & clueless critics

📚 From librarian dreams to kitchen life

💡 El Bulli ambitions & rejection from Basque Culinary Center

👨‍🍳 Inside El Bulli Foundation & working with Ferran Adrià

🤝 Learning from Oriol, Eduard & Mateu at Disfrutar’s roots

🎓 Teaching at Basque Culinary Center at 24 years old

🍽️ Breaking into Mugaritz – skipping t ...