Restaurant, the world's oldest and operating from 300 years ago "Restaurante Botín"

In Spain · Madrid, the oldest restaurant in the world that is operating in the same place and the same shop name without a break from 300 years ago "Restaurante Botín"there is. In the historical building of Restaurante Botín, the traditional Spanish cuisine, including roasted piglets, in the news mediaAJ +I am covering it.

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It was French chef Jean Bottine and Austrian wife who made Restaurante Botín. They said that they moved to Madrid to work under the nobility of the Habsburg family and started business. Restaurante Botín is the world's oldest and registered in the Guinness Book of Records as a restaurant that keeps operating without changing its name and location.


Restaurante Botín offers traditional Spanish cuisine. The picture below is where we are making "Coppinillo" of the signboard menu. Because it is made according to traditional recipe, it seems that it produces a taste that can not be eaten at other shops.


Woodwood oven in kitchen is what has been used for 300 years ago.


According to Jose Gonzalez, the present owner, it is essential to burn the fire of the wood-burning oven to make a delicious little piglet round.


Grilled chicken baked with freshly baked pork.


Restaurante Botín officially began business in 1725, and the restaurant has a history of about 300 years.


The meal space has rooms similar to general restaurants and rooms like brick dome.


Many celebrities are visiting Restaurante Botín, for example, the writer Ernesto Hemingway touches Restaurante Botín many times in the work. Therefore, it seems that Hemingway enthusiasts have visited Restaurante Botín and become a photography shooting spot. Also, a Spanish artistFrancisco de GoyaThere is a record that around 1765 he worked as a waiter at Restaurante Botín.


Inside the store, a certificate showing that Restaurante Botín is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest restaurant is displayed.


The Guinness record owned by Restaurante Botín is "It is open from the founding of 1725 without a break"


"The name of the store has not changed since its foundation"


And "Things that have not changed the location of shops since its founding" are three.


In the basement of the restaurant, there is a wine cellar that exists from old days as well as shops.


In the wine cellar, it seems that old wines of quite old age, such as dust and wine bottles wrapped with soil, are preserved.


In the following movie, you can see how to make roasted pork of a specialty menu.

Preparacion del Cochinillo - YouTube