Restaurante Botín in Madrid
This item appears on page 34 of the June 2017 issue.
Returning from Morocco with family members in October 2016 (March ’17, pg. 14), we stopped over for three nights in Madrid, Spain, where, in addition to seeing the usual tourist attractions, I looked forward to having paella (a dish of rice, meat and vegetables) at least once and returning to what the Guinness Book of World Records considers the world’s oldest continually operating restaurant, Restaurante Botín (C/Cuchilleros, 17, 28005, Madrid, Spain; phone +34 913 664 217, www.botin.es/en), which opened in 1725.
I treated our party to dinner there. Three of us ordered lamb and suckling pig, each main dish costing €24-€25. One of us ordered steak, which cost a few euros more, and another had partridge. Three salads, which were very large, cost €13-€14 apiece, and we had a bottle of red wine from Navarre.
Our dinner was enjoyable, and the bill for all five of us came to €207 ($226 on my credit card statement).
ROBERT A. SIEBERT
Jamaica, NY