Sobrino de Botín

**Status:** Open. **Literary passage:** Hemingway called [Botín](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobrino_de_Bot%C3%ADn)) “one of the [best restaurants in the world](https://apnews.com/article/906304a89d6d09c23012c40e846a0eb1?utm_source=openai)).” **Why it matters:** In the Madrid close of *The Sun Also Rises*, Botín represents continuity after exhaustion: old dishes, old rooms, old rituals, and the worldly competence Jake still trusts. The restaurant's roast suckling pig is part of that effect. There is also a useful historical wrinkle: scholarship cited on the restaurant's page notes that Hemingway's own visits were probably to the older Antigua Casa Botín in Plaza de Herradores, even though the literary association now clusters around Sobrino de Botín on Calle de Cuchilleros.

Madrid, Madrid, Spain