In 1870 in Vilafranca del Penedes, the Quer family started a factory making pasta and cannelloni under the brand "La Teresita".

In 2001, 131 years later, Martí Quer, Miyuki Hamano and Bernard Franco returned to Vilafranca del Penedes from New York where they had been living for many years and transformed the town's historical pasta factory into a restaurant and named it La Fabrica as a tribute to the pasta making factory.

They have been offering a Japanese - Mediterranean fusion cuisine since then.