Home of London’s Oldest Restaurant Given to National Trust to Safeguard Future

London’s oldest restaurant given to National Trust to safeguard future

The charity said the donation would secure the future of a building where ‘kings dined and writers and politicians plotted’

London's oldest restaurant given to National Trust

Established in 1798, when Napoleon was still a rising star, it has been serving traditional English fare ever since, in the ownership of just four families, under two queens and eight kings.

£11m site of London’s oldest restaurant given to the National Trust

The site at 34-35 Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, central London, has been home to Rules since 1798

Home of London’s oldest restaurant given to National Trust to safeguard future