[1][2] The artist Francisco de Goya worked in Café Botín as a waiter while waiting to get accepted into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Upon Botin's death in 1753, a nephew, Candido Remis, changed the name to Sobrino de Botín, which survives to this day.

[3] The restaurant and its speciality of cochinillo asado (roast suckling pig) are mentioned in the closing pages of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises.

[4] Its other signature dish is sopa de ajo (an egg poached in chicken broth, and laced with sherry and garlic), a favorite pick-me-up with madrileño revellers.

The opening of the Puerto Rican location was attended by several well-known celebrities, including former governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernandez Colon and then current governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, actor Braulio Castillo, Jr. and Mexican singer and actor Fernando Allende.