| La Vecchia Scuola | |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Head-Chef: | Decio Franca |
| Street-Address: | 62 Low Petergate |
| City: | York, England |
| County: | North Yorkshire |
| Zip: | YO1 7HZ |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
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.