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It’s amazing to think that this restaurant was established in 1725. It is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest eatery in the world. The artist Francisco de Goya worked here as a waiter while waiting to get accepted into the “Royal Academy of Fine Arts”.

Botin and its speciality of cochinillo asado (roast suckling pig, which we had) are mentioned in the closing pages of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises. It was Hemingway’s favorite restaurant in Spain.