He personally was named ‘The World’s Best Chef in 2017’ & 2018 by the ‘Best Chefs Awards’, and he is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, supporting sustainable development programmes across the planet.He works with the flavours of traditional cuisine, evolving them through pioneering techniques in a stunning, poetic modern cuisine that evokes intense emotions. Joan Roca has been a decisive contributor and developer of modern cooking techniques. The meticulous and masterful development of sous-vide cooking, as well as the distillation of foods and liquids at low temperature and in a vacuum (Rotaval), has been pivotal. Besides The Roca brothers have 4 more restaurants, 2 hotels, an artisan chocolate factory, an astonishing 80,000-bottle wine cellar, a distillery and a creative ice cream boutique.