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Restaurante Botin vs Casa Alberto
Both Restuarant Botin and Casa Alberto are recommended by travel writers. On balance, Restuarant Botin is the choice of most writers compared to Casa Alberto. Restuarant Botin has a TripExpert Score of 88 with positive reviews from 12 reviews including Zagat, Lonely Planet and Time Out.
Restaurante Botin
Concierge
Insight Guides
Travel + Leisure
Zagat
BlackBook
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Calle Cuchilleros 17, 28005 Madrid
From $0 /night
Concierge
"This is a meat eater's paradise, and you'll be greeted at the door by shelves of piglets in clay dishes awaiting their fate in the oven."
Insight Guides
"Botín claims to be world’s oldest continuously running restaurant, having opened in 1725 – the date their magnificence wood-fired oven was built."
Travel + Leisure
"The world’s oldest operating restaurant, founded in 1725, Restaurante Botín still roasts suckling pig and lamb in the original oak-fired, cast-iron oven."
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Zagat
3.8
"“Go for” the “succulent” roast pig and other “phenomenal”, “traditional” dishes at this “authentic” Castilian “classic” off Plaza Mayor."
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BlackBook
"Ever wanted to dine in the oldest restaurant in the world, or where Goya supposedly washed dishes in the kitchen, or Hemmingway’s favorite restaurant?"
Casa Alberto
Frommer's
Travel + Leisure
Time Out
Rough Guide
Let's Go
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C/ Huertas, 18, Madrid
From $25 /night
Frommer's
"One of the oldest tascas in the neighborhood, Casa Alberto first opened its doors in 1827 and has thrived ever since."
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Travel + Leisure
"Order the saucy albóndigas with a glass of vermú de (vermouth on tap) slid across the antique onyx counter at Casa Alberto, in a building where Cervantes once wrote."
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Time Out
"One of the city's most evocative old tabernas, hung with oil paintings and presided over since its opening by Segovians."
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Rough Guide
"Traditional tasca that has resisted the passage of time since it was founded back in 1827."
Let's Go
"Feeling even more daring? Eat a pig’s ear. Damn, still hungry? How about snails and lamb hands? Your insatiable hunger howls for more. Have some beef cheek. Congratulations, you are a winner."
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