Architects Design Restaurant That Cooks Food with Volcano's Heat (Video)

A Restaurant Built on a Volcano Uses it For Cooking (Video)

treehugger.com 23 Feb '12, 10am

Architects Design Restaurant That Cooks Food with Volcano's Heat (Video)

Operating a restaurant on a volcano sounds like an insane thing to do, but that's what local notable architect Cesar Manrique has been doing with El Diablo, a restaurant that's been in business -- cooking food using volcanic heat -- since 1970. Located in Timanfaya National Park, on Lanzarote, a Spanish island northwest of Morocco, the restaurant's main draw is its volcanic cooking, on a large grill that uses the heat of the volcano to cook meat and fish for its patrons. Thankfully, it's not the type of active volcano with lava flows oozing out; rather, it's dormant, but the smoldering heat from deep within the earth is still enough to cook food. According to Oddity Central , the restaurant's customized grill was a bit of an architectural feat: in order to bypass the problem of not being able to build conventional foundations due to the heat underground, architects Eduardo...

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@GRHCna » 23 Feb '12, 12pm
This would be cooler if they were grilling vegetables grown on a green roof "Restaurant Cooks Food with Volcano heat [link]