Madrid's Botín celebrates its 300th anniversary: Inside the world’s oldest restaurant
Madrid’s Botín, the world’s oldest restaurant according to Guinness World Records, is celebrating 300 years of continuous service. Founded in 1725, it’s famed for its wood-fire oven and was immortalised by Ernest Hemingway.
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Madrid’s Botín, the world’s oldest restaurant according to Guinness World Records, is celebrating 300 years of continuous service. Founded in 1725, it’s famed for its wood-fire oven and was immortalised by Ernest Hemingway.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/21/madrids-botin-celebrates-its-300th-anniversary-inside-the-worlds-oldest-restaurant
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00:00It is the most ancient world because it says the Guinness of Records
00:17based on four conditions.
00:22The first, having been working uninterruptedly.
00:26The second, in the same location.
00:28The third, with the same name.
00:30And the fourth, with the same activity.
00:32The second, with the same grain!
00:38The second, in the same name.
00:42The last hundred, with the same amount of electricity.
00:46The third, with the same temperature.
00:50The 75% of tourists are tourists, but they are attracted to the history, and I also want to understand that in the time, because this has been a book-a-oreja,
01:07it is impressive that we have 60 years with it, we have never done publicity, we have never done publicity,
01:13nor we have the walls decorated with the famous photos that have been taken over here, like in many places.
01:23In the 1920s, there is a international projection of the building, thanks to the inclusion of the restaurant in the works of Hemingway.
01:32Hemingway recoge two works, Fiesta and Muerte en la tarde.
01:37In Fiesta, he says, in the mouth of the American journalist, Jackie Blake,
01:44he says, it is the best restaurant in the world.