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Rules Restaurant (Covent Garden)

RESTAURANT • First Person

What makes a tourist trap? Is it the location? A dubious claim to fame? The décor, or being featured in a film? By any of these benchmarks, Rules qualifies. It’s in Covent Garden, claims to be the oldest restaurant in London, is featured in a Bond film and played host to Dickens. Even Kingsley Amis famously hated it.

But two week…