Creaking wooden staircases and tiled cellar rooms make it feel like stepping into old Madrid. The roast is genuinely good, but the dining room runs on tourist throughput, not intimacy.
Recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest restaurant, open continuously since 1725 and using its original wood-fired oven; it marked its 300th anniversary in 2025. · guinnessworldrecords.com
Its signature cochinillo asado (roast suckling pig) features in the closing pages of Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'. · en.wikipedia.org