Sobrino de Botín

Sobrino de Botín (Restaurante Botín)

Suckling pig from a wood-fired oven, roasting since 1725

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Hours

Daily 13:00-23:30 (official site, checked Oct 2026)

Budget

€45-60 per person

Address

Calle de Cuchilleros 17, just below the Arco de Cuchilleros

Guinness lists it as the oldest restaurant in the world: opened in 1725, 300 years old in 2025. A small room by the entrance holds the old wood-fired oven, and you can watch suckling pigs browning in clay dishes as you walk past. The skin cracks like a biscuit, the meat parts under a spoon. Hemingway put it in the last pages of The Sun Also Rises, so half the room is tourists, but the menu still revolves around two roasts.