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Casa Botín

  • Calle Cuchilleros 17 Map It
  • La Latina
  • Spanish

Known for

  • World's oldest restaurant
  • Roast lamb and suckling pig
  • Roving traditional musical groups

Published 08/20/2018

Fodor's Review

According to Guinness World Records, Madrid is home to the world’s oldest restaurant, Botín, established in 1725 and a favorite of Ernest Hemingway (the final scene of The Sun Also Rises is set in this very place). A menu must, by all accounts, is the cochinillo asado (suckling pig), which is stuffed with aromatics, doused with wine, and crisped in the original wood-burning oven. There are four floors of tile and wood-beam dining rooms, and, if you're seated upstairs, you'll pass the centuries-old ovens. Musical groups called tunas (mostly made up of students dressed in medieval costume) rove between tables. It's rumored Goya washed dishes here before he made it as a painter.

Spanish
Historical
Lively
Lunch
Dinner
$$$

Restaurant Information

Address:

Calle Cuchilleros 17, Madrid, Madrid, 28005, Spain

Map It

Phone:

91-366–4217

Website: www.botin.es

Published 08/20/2018

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