History on a plate

Food and Wine , Journalism , Spain , Travel Mar 29, 2014 No Comments

It is Saturday night in Madrid and Plaza Mayor is thronged with people despite the chill breeze of mid­winter. We weave through the bodies in their winter coats past the statue of Philip III in his brocaded one and duck under the porticos that line the square, where a waiter tries to lure us into one of the tourist restaurants with the promise of a wonderful meal.

But a wonderful meal awaits us elsewhere and with a smile and a shake of our heads we walk on by.

A little further, down stone steps on to a cobblestoned street, past a barbershop and we’re there, joining a cluster of other people in front of an unimposing, dark wooden shopfront. Some are looking in the windows at the dollhouse-like replicas of the building’s interior: three dining rooms over as many levels, a kitchen with an oak-fired, cast-iron oven, each reproduced in admirable detail.

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The doormen ushers us past the sightseers and we step into the warm, red-walled embrace of Sobrino de Botin, the oldest restaurant in the world.

Read the full article in The Weekend Australian.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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