Sobrino de Botín
While in transit at the Frankfurt Airport I met up with a friend of mine who told me to try out a restaurant in Madrid called Sobrino de Botín. The place is the oldest restaurant in the world, established back in 1725! So I passed by tonight and had dinner there. The place is pretty cool, I didn’t like the food but that was my fault, should have gone with the seafood. The idea the restaurant existed 500 nearly 300 years ago is just crazy.
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Mar 10, 2009
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1. il3thman | March 11th, 2009 at 1:06 am
REALLY wanna check this place out!!!!
2. jose | March 11th, 2009 at 2:05 am
yeah next to plaza mayor.. the food is horrible. next to your hotel there is a place called cardamomo which has amazing flamenco, which happens to be next to the lomo store. Go to the chuecca area, they have great restaurants there and cool boutique stores. Spanish food is generally horrible.
3. Touché | March 11th, 2009 at 2:13 am
284 years ago :)
4. jarrah al-failkawy | March 11th, 2009 at 2:46 am
if it was established in 1725 that means it was around 284 years ago not 500
5. Miss-Informed | March 11th, 2009 at 6:05 am
I’d love to visit that place :D
6. liliuokalani | March 11th, 2009 at 6:13 am
wait…established 1725 and it is 500 years old…………….something doesn’t add up here…..hmmmmmmmmmmm.
7. q8tidude79 | March 11th, 2009 at 8:12 am
liliuokalani , maby its the Duff talking here ;)
8. Mabrook | March 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg is the oldest restaurant, dating back to 803 AD in the time of Charlemagne.
9. Abid | March 11th, 2009 at 9:51 am
“established back in 1725! [...] The idea the restaurant existed 500 years ago is just crazy.”
1725+500 = 2225 AD
Are you living in 2225 AD?
10. Giggles | March 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sobrino de Botin in Madrid, Spain, is the oldest restaurant in existence today. It opened in 1725. Another claim to be the world’s oldest restaurant is made by Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg, which has been in existence since 803 AD, since the time of emperor Charlemagne.
11. Giggles | March 11th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Supposedly founded 1153 AD. Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House is located in Kaifang, China
12. W | March 11th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’ve been there..they have THE BEST lamb dish EVER! and at night they have the spanish guitar singers that walk around people singing old spanish songs..great atmosphere.!
13. Mark | March 11th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Actually true if it was established in 1725 how is it over 500 years old. I just checked and I have no clue where I read 500 years!
14. Mark | March 11th, 2009 at 10:47 am
According to the guiness book of records, botin is the oldest.
15. Holla | March 11th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Cool place but I would be really tempted to leave a lit ciggy under one of their curtains or something ;)
16. indiancurry | March 11th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
According to folklore, the Kerala Restaurant on the moon is the oldest. Started by someone, I forgot whom, who flew on the Calicut Express Meteor which crashed on the moon somewhere in the 9th Century. It’s been serving only chaya & paya with poori & chapathis ever since
17. Tarek | March 11th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Mark you have to eat chorros fro Ghenes, you will like it
I was there 10 days ago in Madrid, still amazing as ever !!!
18. vampire | March 11th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
looks like ur enjoying ur time there
be safe
19. cheetah | March 12th, 2009 at 3:21 am
try to find a place that serves empanadas! ur gonna love them
20. teach | March 12th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Fantastic decor. Try looking for a bar called ‘No se lo dice nadie’. We used to frequent it at about 2 am. The Madrilenos are interesting people- they get up early for work, come home and have a siesta and eat around 9 or 10 pm, then hit the streets until about 3.Not unlike Kuwait, but without the sangria.
21. Tituca | March 13th, 2009 at 10:33 am
To the comment made by Jose back on March 11th….(Spanish food is generally horrible)….I can only say that you urgently need to check your taste buds with the doctor…run…
I guess you haven’t really tried our food and that you are one of the tourist who skips the really Spanish restaurants and go only to eat to McDonalds. Or maybe you haven’t spent enough time in Spain to really enjoy the variety of our cuisine.
In any case, I obviously disagree with you. Spanish food is one of the best of the world and our diet doesn’t make you fat (unless you pig out of course…but that would happen with any food)
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