| La Vecchia Scuola | |
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 The restaurant's frontage in 2018 | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1997 |
| Head chef | Decio Franca |
| Location | 62 Low Petergate, York, England, North Yorkshire, YO1 7HZ, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°57′39″N1°04′53″W / 53.960963°N 1.081283°W |
| Website | lavecchiascuola |
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]