Oriol Rovira is a tornado! A forty-something man with a strong personality, both energetic and extremely kind, who identifies first and foremost as a member of the Rovira family...
... because the Roviras are an exceptional and very close-knit family – four inseparable brothers and friends who work the family farm together and eat breakfast with their mother every morning. The products that Oriol uses at his restaurant, Els Casals, are the pigs, fowl and the vegetables that his brothers raise and grow less than a kilometer away. They call it the closed circle.
The chef claims to get inspiration from the window of the kitchen where he creates his dishes while gazing onto the land where he was born and has chosen to remain. His native land, Catalonia, is the source of all things – of his desires, his ideas and his joys. Here, we are far from the molecular cuisine still captivating Spain.
Oriol Rivero’s cooking could be considered traditional. It is, in fact, a philosophy he has pushed to the extreme through natural experimentation, long before it became trendy.
