La Vecchia Scuola

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La Vecchia Scuola
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The restaurant's frontage in 2018
La Vecchia Scuola
Restaurant information
Established1997(27 years ago) (1997)
Head chefDecio Franca
Street address62 Low Petergate
City York, England
County North Yorkshire
Postal/ZIP CodeYO1 7HZ
CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates 53°57′39″N1°04′53″W / 53.960963°N 1.081283°W / 53.960963; -1.081283
Website lavecchiascuola.co.uk

La Vecchia Scuola is a restaurant in York, England. It occupies the former school building of York College for Girls on Low Petergate. [1] [2] The school closed in 1997, after 89 years, and the restaurant (whose name is Italian for "the old school") [3] opened shortly thereafter.

The restaurant's dining room (in a conservatory) [4] is the school's former refectory, while the bar area was the study of its last headmistress Erica Taylor. The landscaped gardens was the school's playground. [5]

The restaurant came under new ownership in 2013. [6] Its manager and head chef is Decio Franca, [7] who leased the business along with his wife, Gabriella. Franca replaced previous manager Vincenzo Fuccio, who was banned indefinitely from food management due to breaches of health and safety. [3]

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References

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