Chef and food educator. She is an international leader in avant-garde Catalan cuisine. In her home town, Sant Pol de Mar, she ran the Sant Pau restaurant from 1988 until 2018, when she decided to close it and move onto a new stage. Her work as head chef at Sant Pau was recognised with three stars in the Michelin Guide. Last year, her son, Raül Balam, reopened the restaurant under the name of Cuina Sant Pau. Despite the closure of Sant Pau, Ruscalleda runs two more restaurants: the Sant Pau restaurant in Tokyo, which has been open since 2004 and has one Michelin star, and Moments de Barcelona, which has two. In 1998 she received the National Gastronomy Award and in 2004 she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (St George’s Cross) by the Catalan Government in recognition of her career. Parc de Joan Miró is very close to the L3 Tarragona stop. Before it became a park, it was the site of the city's old slaughterhouse.
An internationally renowned chef, her restaurant Sant Pau has earned three Michelin stars. She currently has one star for her Sant Pau restaurant in Tokyo and two for the restaurant in Barcelona's Moments.