In "The Sun Also Rises," he wrote: "We lunched up-stairs at Botin ... restaurant in the world. Narrator: Madrid was little more than a village of 20,000 people when this place first started ...
Botín is the oldest restaurant in the world. Located in Madrid, it was founded in 1725 and has been operating ever since. Its most famous dish is "cochinillo," or roasted suckling pig.