Sobrino de Botín

Coordinates: 40°24′51″N 3°42′29″W / 40.41420°N 3.70796°W / 40.41420; -3.70796
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Sobrino de Botín
Madrid
CountrySpain
Coordinates40°24′51″N 3°42′29″W / 40.41420°N 3.70796°W / 40.41420; -3.70796
Websitewww.botin.es Edit this at Wikidata

Sobrino de Botín is a

Francisco de Goya worked in Café Botín as a waiter while waiting to get accepted into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. The restaurant is mentioned in an Ernest Hemingway novel and the book Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
(published 1886–1887). It is the oldest operating restaurant in the world.

History

The restaurant was founded in 1725 by Frenchman Jean Botin and his wife, and was originally called Casa Botín. Upon Botin's death in 1753, a nephew called Candido Remis changed the name to Sobrino de Botín, which survives to this day. Sobrino is Spanish for nephew.


Apart from using the original recipes, the restaurant has also kept the flame burning in the oven continuously, never to be extinguished.

Madrileño
revellers.

Botin Puerto Rico

In 2007, Puerto Rican actress

Braulio Castillo, hijo and Mexican singer and actor Fernando Allende.[5]

External links

  1. ^ "History and Evolution". Sobrino de Botín. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. ^ Geeslin, Ned (14 December 1987). "The World's Oldest Eatery, Casa Botin, Reigns in Spain". People. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  3. ^ Have a Seat at the Oldest Restaurant in the World, Great Big Story, 6 February 2018, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 31 March 2018
  4. ^ "Hemingway in Spain. A definitive guide to Ernest Hemingway's Spain". 3 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Von Marie y sus hijos al mando del restaurante más viejo del mundo". 4 September 2007.