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According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sobrino de
Botin in Madrid, Spain is the oldest restaurant in
existence today. It opened in 1725.
The modern sense of the word was born around 1765 when a
Parisian soup-seller named Boulanger opened his
establishment
La Reyna. The first restaurant in the form that
became standard (customers sitting down with individual
portions at individual tables, selecting food from menus,
during fixed opening hours) was the Grand Taverne de
Londres
pig roast box , founded in 1782 by a man named Beauvilliers.
While inns and taverns were known from antiquity, these
were establishments aimed at travelers, and in general
locals would rarely eat there. The restaurant became
established in France after the French Revolution broke up
catering guilds and forced the aristocracy to flee,
leaving a retinue of servants with the skills to cook
excellent food; whilst at the same time numerous
provincials arrived in Paris with no family to cook for
them. Restaurants were the means by which these two could
be brought together — and the French
mojito glasses
tradition of dining
out was born. In this period the star chef Auguste
Escoffier, often credited with founding classic French
cuisine, flourished, becoming known as the "Cook of Kings
and the King of Cooks."
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