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(CNN) -- Since the closing of what was the world's best restaurant for many years, life has been busy for Albert Adria.
Known as the not-so-secret secret weapon behind the imaginative, acclaimed elBulli on the Catalan coast in Spain, the younger Adria brother was the creator of many of the restaurant's deconstructivist dishes that haunted the ambitions of young chefs around the world.
It's difficult to overstate the influence of his work at elBulli under the leadership of his older brother Ferran.
"Picture an armada without a flagship, a solar system without a sun, and that is what high-end Spanish cuisine will look like in the absence of El Bulli," was how the New York Times mourned the 2011 closing of "the world's most influential restaurant."
Coming out of the kitchen shadows in the years since, Adria is generating buzz and critical acclaim with the whimsical bars and restaurants he has opened in Barcelona -- cocktail bar41ºExperience, tapas bar Tickets, Japanese-Peruvian restaurantPakta and Bodega 1900, a casual vermouth bar.
Time Magazine highlighted him as "The Magician of the Moment" in the magazine's roundup of the most influential people in the gastronomy world.
In November, he received a Michelin star for Tickets and another one for 41ºExperience.
We caught up with the starred chef in Hong Kong as he prepared for a special dinner featuring his iconic dishes at Catalunya Hong Kong.
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