Sobrino de Botín is a Spanish

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in Madrid, The artist 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

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(published 1886–1887). It is the oldest 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. The cellar is from 1590 and is older than the restaurant. Apart from using the original recipes, the restaurant has also kept the flame burning in the oven continuously, never to be extinguished. The restaurant and its speciality of ''

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'' (roast suckling pig) are mentioned in the closing pages of Ernest Hemingway's

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'' The Sun Also Rises''. Its other signature dish is ''

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'' (an egg, poached in chicken broth, and laced with sherry and garlic): a favorite pick-me-up with

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revellers.

Botin Puerto Rico

In 2007, Puerto Rican actress Von Marie Mendez and her husband, Dr. Vicente Sanchez, in association with Sobrino de Botin, opened a restaurant in Ponce, Puerto Rico, named "Botin". The opening of the Puerto Rican location was attended by several well known celebrities, including former governor of Puerto Rico

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and then current governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, actor Braulio Castillo, hijo and Mexican singer and actor Fernando Allende.

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