La Vecchia Scuola Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food and service is excellent."
• "The food was fantastic."
• "Food...omg its like heaven in your mouth. Fresh and authentic ingredients."
• "The desserts were really outstanding, so flavoursome and well presented."
• "The food was delicious and the recommended wine was a treat and moreish."
• "The food was gorgeous and although it isn't cheap, I would gladly go back as my seafood pasta dish was perfect in every way."
• "The food was absolutely amazing."

Cons:

• "The seafood was very chewy and not freshly cooked."
• "The sauce was absolutely terrible! It tasted like plastic."
• "The chicken was ok but a bit on the dry side."
• "The seafood pasta dish, which 3 of us had, was very poor. All the seafood was like rubber."
• "The food was unimaginative, poorly cooked and the red wine jus was red water."
• "The pasta was over cooked and covered in a tomato sauce which overpowered the dish."
• "The lasagne was awful alot of tomato sauce and mozzarella and very little else."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff were attentive and joked around whilst still being professional and proficient."
• "Staff were polite and the buff italian was very smiley and welcoming."
• "Polite professional staff."
• "The waiting staff are friendly and attentive, the food is absolutely first rate with an authentic Italian feel."
• "The staff could not be more helpful and make the experience of being in their restaurant very enjoyable and truly memorable."
• "The service was excellent and reasonably priced for the quality of the food presented."
• "The service was great."

Cons:

• "Seated in the 'cold' conservatory."
• "Felt like it was all a rush, pate had the consistency of a melting ice cream, couldn't eat it."
• "Service was pretty slow."
• "Having been very excited to dine at the establishment I was appalled at the awkward greeting upon arrival and also the foul attitude from one of the waiting staff."
• "Unfortunately we cancel the reservation only because the host was very unfriendly."
• "We were overlooked for the first 10 minutes of being seated."
• "The most important thing that let our experience down was the service, first 20 min we tried to get the attention just to order first drinks."

Ambience

Pros:

• "The restaurant of La Vecchia is in an old schools building right in the heart of York City Centre."
• "The atmosphere was.... great!"
• "Beautiful setting in a 300 yr old building we sat in the conservatory overlooking a garden."
• "Amazing restaurant set in an old school building. Live piano which makes it an amazing vibe."
• "Beautiful historic building across from the Minster."
• "The large conservatory at the back overlooks the garden, and if lucky as we were, may have the visit of an unexpected guest."
• "Building and decor very tasteful."

Cons:

• "Although food was good there are cheaper places to go for lasagne in York."
• "The menu has recently changed and we feel it isn't as good as previous menus."
• "Can become a bit noisy and the music doesn't help."
• "The restaurant felt very crowded, not enough room to sit at your table or walk around."
• "Away from the live piano, the buzz of the atmosphere with no music I felt like I was in a box bedroom with tables in it!"
• "The music doesn’t quite fit the atmosphere."
• "The whole atmosphere is rushed, managers are at speed walking pace."

Value

Pros:

• "The service was excellent and reasonably priced for the quality of the food presented."
• "Definitely great value for money."
• "Had a wonderful time and was really reasonably priced too."
• "Great value, lovely decor."
• "Not too expensive."
• "The prices are very reasonable."
• "Not overpriced, but excellent restaurant experience!!"

Cons:

• "I'm very very upset i was still charged £50 for the worst food experience and service ever."
• "We left £80 lighter feeling pretty ripped off as a result."
• "Prices for the Saturday evening menu were hiked up quite considerably, with a double whammy of the portions reduced."
• "Very expensive and disappointing."
• "Absolutely not worth the reviews it has and would never return."
• "For close to £30 a plate it was shocking."
• "The ambience is nice. Prices are ok for the restaurant to be in central York otherwise I would say on the expensive side."