The Building Housing London’s Oldest Restaurant Has Been Donated to a Conservation Charity
The £11 million gift includes the restaurant building, historic items and rent from the business to fund conservation work.
- The National Trust has received an £11 million freehold gift of 34-35 Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, securing the future of Rules, London's oldest restaurant operating since 1798.
- Restaurant owner J-P Mayhew donated the building after 40 years of stewardship, preserving a venue where "kings dined and writers and politicians plotted" across two centuries.
- Proprietor Ricky McMenemy, who has worked there for 35 years, will continue operating the restaurant as a commercial tenant of the National Trust under the new agreement.
- Annual rent payments from the business will fund conservation efforts, protecting the building's famous "invisible atmosphere" and historic interior for future generations.
- This donation marks the first historic restaurant in the National Trust's care, adding to a portfolio of 39 historic pubs already managed by the charity across the country.
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