GIRONA, Feb 27 — The team of chefs behind El Celler de Can Roca, currently ranked the world's best restaurant according to a body of elite diners, has announced plans to take their culinary show on the road, with stops scheduled for five cities around the world.

For diners who can't travel to Girona, Spain — where the brick and mortar restaurant is located — the brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca will take their kitchen to them.

El Celler de Can Roca has nabbed the top spot on the British ranking World's 50 Best Restaurants twice, and is the current titleholder.

It's the third time the Roca brothers Joan, Josep and Jordi are packing up and touring the world. For five weeks beginning in August, the team will take 40 members of their restaurant staff on a rock star tour that will span London, Hong Kong, Phoenix, San Francisco and Santiago Chile.

At each stop, the chefs pay homage to their host city by creating menus inspired by local flavours, ingredients and culinary heritage.

During a stop in Istanbul on their world tour last year, for instance, chefs enlisted the help of young emerging talent in Turkey to help create a localised menu that reimagined familiar dishes like lamb, eggplant and cumin or sea bream in a sumak fish soup, into edible art.

The tours work in reciprocal ways: Two hospitality students are chosen and offered a coveted internship at the Girona restaurant, while the chefs will use their visit to learn about local food customs.

Since launching the tour in 2014, the brothers have visited nine countries and served 100,000 plates to 4,000 diners in Argentina, Colombia, the US, Mexico, Peru and Turkey.

The Roca brothers are the latest in a long line of fine dining chefs and restaurateurs who have been shattering the notion of fixed dining addresses by taking their kitchens on the road. Chefs Grant Achatz, Heston Blumenthal, Daniel Humm and Rene Redzepi have either hosted pop-ups in foreign cities or swapped restaurants altogether in a bid to expose new audiences to their cuisines, and redefine the traditional dining experience. — AFP-Relaxnews