Casa Fuster hotel, beautiful modernist headquarters, will open on Tuesday the Panot restaurant, a tribute to Catalan cuisine created by the contributions of Indians, bourgeois, workers and peasants.

The old dining room of the noble floor of the Fuster family, hosts the new Panot, a place chosen deliberately for its gastronomic link with the first owners, and for having one of the best Paseo de Gracia views, which ends its 1,300 meter journey at the hotel foot.

Marc Ribas will be in charge of the kitchen, well known in the Catalan gastronomic environment for being the host of the cooking program "Juegos de Cartas" (Catalonia TV)", and winner of a Michelin star in the Capricho restaurant, from Terrassa.

Ribas seeks to extract the mysticism of high-flying gastronomy. He introduces himself as a chef "because he can not do anything else", and he assures that Catalan cuisine is a mestizo product, with worker, agricultural and bourgeois roots.

This cuisine, he explains, was nourished by the arrival of ingredients and American recipes brought from Indians who returned from the Caribbean with great fortunes under their arms or from immigrants who only had their arms to try their luck. "Ours is a great "charnega" cuisine," he declares.