Learn Modernist Spanish Cuisine in Girona

Honest level: Intermediate -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Joan Roca
• Jordi Roca

Schools in Girona

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• El Celler de Can Roca (stage program)
  Internship / stage at El Celler de Can Roca (incl. BBVA scholarship intake)
  The Roca brothers' three-Michelin-star restaurant in Girona hosts paid stages, including a BBVA scholarship cohort that adds accommodation, meals and University of Barcelona-backed coursework on chocolate, caviar and team management. Honest note: this is a competitive restaurant stage you apply for, not an open course you can book — listed for the lineage, not as a class.
  https://cellercanroca.com/en/
• Escola d'Hostaleria i Turisme de Girona
  FP Cuina i Gastronomia / professional cooking certificates
  Catalonia's first catering school, opened in 1965 in Girona, runs full professional cooking and pastry programs and operates a student-run restaurant, with alumni who have earned some 20 Michelin stars.
  https://agora.xtec.cat/ehtg/

The credential

A completed stage in an elBulli-lineage avant-garde kitchen / BCC Master in Culinary Arts · Certifying body: elBullifoundation legacy / Basque Culinary Center (no single formal body — restaurant stage lineage)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Modernist Spanish Cuisine

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.