Sotheby's Hong Kong to auction dinner of a lifetime with El Bullistar chef Ferran Adrià

Hongkongers who missed a chance to dine at one of the world's greatest restaurants will be offered the next best thing when Sotheby's Hong Kong auctions off a meal with El Bulli star chef Ferran Adrià next month.

The dinner with Adrià will take place at his brother's restaurant, Tickets, in Barcelona.

Bids for the mouthwatering-experience will begin at an eye-watering HK$40,000 on April 3 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. Another dinner will be auctioned off on April 26 in New York.

Also going under the hammer will be some of the restaurant's extensive wine cellar, equipment and memorabilia. The 445 lots of wines being offered in Hong Kong are estimated to fetch up to HK$8 million. Three bottles alone from 1990 are expected to sell for HK$380,000.

A Michelin three-star establishment, El Bulli was based near the town of Roses, Catalonia, in Spain. It was feted with countless awards, topping the Restaurant Magazine list of the world's 50 best restaurants five times, with Adrià frequently named the world's greatest chef.