

THE BEST DESSERT
WHAT IS IT ?
International competition created in 2007 with an unequivocally international vocation.
It was born with the purpose of publicizing and promoting a new trade: THE RESTAURANT PASTRY with new techniques, ingredients and tools that in turn need new Concepts and Vocabulary such as:
- THE IMMEDIATE
- THE DYNAMISM
- THE EPHIMER
ESPAISUCRE tries to respond to all these needs through THE ESPAISUCRE METHOD.
PHILOSOPHY
<p class="p3"The intention of the TheBestDessert-ESPAISUCRE contest is consistent with our vocation to promote restaurant patisserie, carried out since 2000 by our ESPAISUCRE school-restaurant for desserts in Barcelona.
This contest fits perfectly with our intention to publicize a new discipline, different and little known as restaurant pastry.
OBJECTIVES
The TheBestDessert-ESPAISUCRE contest was born with an international vocation, and with the long-term objective of becoming a WORLD REFERENCE in the field of restaurant pastry.
We also care about and motivate the fact of influencing the dissemination and transmission of traditional pastry, always taking into account the new parameters that govern restaurant pastry.
THE RESTAURANT DESSERT. CONCEPT
We would like the contestants of TheBestDessert-ESPAISUCRE to have as a philosophy and model when creating their desserts The DECALOGUE of THE ESPAISUCRE:
1. Taste is the top priority.
2. The sugar monopoly is over. The range of flavor is expanded.
3. Take advantage of the best of tradition and innovation.
4. Montage as a variable that manipulates flavor.
5. Immediacy gives us more alternatives when designing a restaurant dessert.
6. Dynamism presides over everything.
7. Restaurant patisserie is ephemeral by definition.
8. The dessert has earned its emancipation: it is an
autonomous preparation on the menu.
9. Synergies between sweet and salty dessert.
10. New trade. New rules. Dessert is a concept.
COMPETITION RULES
INFORMATION
Here you can download the rules for the VIII edition ESPAISUCREthebestdessert23, which will take place on November, 6, at the Gastronomic Forum – Fira de Barcelona venue.
INSCRIPTION
Send an email to espaisucrethebestdessert@espaisucre.com and we will send you the registration form
Previous editions
First edition – 2007

Pierre Gagnaire
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Rafa Delgado
Winner
Second edition – 2009

Michel Bras
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Vicente Saint-Yves Carvalho
Winner

Pierre François Roelofs
Winner
Third edition – 2011

Paco Torreblanca
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Ana Lucía Jarquín Cáceres
Winner

Víctor Trochi
Winner
Fourth edition (Mexico) – 2014

Pierre HermÉ
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Elsa Judith Olmos Huerta
Winner
fifth edition – 2019

Albert Adrià
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Daniel Rosado Gallardo
Winner

Víctor Gonzalo Pérez
Winner
sixth edition – 2021

Frédéric Bau
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Mariana Rey
Winner
Premio ESPAISUCREthebestdessert21 al Mejor Pastelero de Restaurante

Ausiàs Signes
Winner
Premios SOSA al Mejor postre Creativo y VALRHONA al Mejor Postre de Chocolate
Seventh edition – 2022

Oriol Balaguer
Pierre Gagnaire Award

Omar Quiliano
Winner
ESPAISUCREthebestdessert22 Award to the best restaurant pastry chef

Arnau Casanovas
Winner
VALRHONA Award to the best chocolate dessert

Pau Jamàs
Winner
SOSA Award to the best creative dessert
eighth EDItioN – 2023

MARTÍN BERASATEGUI
Pierre Gagnaire Award