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Restaurante Botin vs Casa Lucio
Both restaurants are rated highly by experts. On balance, Restuarant Botin is preferred by most reviewers compared to Casa Lucio. Restuarant Botin scores 88 with praise from 12 reviewers like Fodor's, Zagat and Michelin Guide.
Restaurante Botin
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Insight Guides
Travel + Leisure
Zagat
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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 Lucio
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Travel + Leisure
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Calle Cava Baja, 35, 28005 Madrid
From $19 /night
Concierge
"When you want to eat nothing that's been deconstructed or otherwise engineered, when you yearn for honest Castilian food in a simple setting, there's nowhere better than Lucio BlÌÁsquez's restaurant near Plaza Mayor."
Travel + Leisure
"In 1974, restaurateur Lucio Blásquez opened this eponymous two-story restaurant specializing in Castilian cuisine prepared in a coal-fired oven, and it’s been a Madrid mainstay ever since."
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DK Eyewitness
"Casa Lucio has garnered a reputation for outstanding Spanish cuisine. House specialities include callos (tripe), its famous egg dishes and a creamy rice pudding."
Time Out
"A restaurant unsurpassed by any other in Madrid for its famous patrons: King Juan Carlos, Bill Clinton and Penélope Cruz among them."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"The menu represents quinessential Madrid dining, with a few very special touches like angulas: baby eels flash-fried in olive oil and garlic."
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