La Vecchia Scuola
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| La Vecchia Scuola | |
|---|---|
 The restaurant's frontage in 2018 | |
 Interactive map of La Vecchia Scuola | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1997 |
| Head chef | Decio Franca |
| Location | 62 Low Petergate, York, England, North Yorkshire, YO1 7HZ, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°57′39″N 1°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]