Top Scarborough restaurateur Giorgio Alessio has teamed up with another leading chef to offer a new cookery school that marries the best of Italian and Yorkshire food.

The White Truffle, Yorkshire Pudding cookery school, launching on 1 June, will be based at Giorgio’s famous Lanterna restaurant. The school is jointly run with chef and writer Gerard Baker. Gerard is perhaps best known for his regular visits to the Antarctic where every winter he cooks on scientific and adventure bases.

The school will teach in the restaurant’s own kitchens and dining room, promising students that they will experience ‘the full heat and velocity of the restaurant’. There will be seasonal courses throughout the year, and the school hopes eventually to offer teaching along the whole Yorkshire coast – on and off shore.

The combination of Italian sophistication and Yorkshire produce will bring new recipes, techniques and hopefully lots of enjoyment.
Giorgio says: ‘Scarborough, its sea and surrounding countryside have been my inspiration for our restaurant and cookery school.
‘Yorkshire and my home town of Moncalvo in Italy have several things in common: a love of really good food, not messed about with – and wonderful people, of course.’

Gerard says: ‘My entire working life has been about bringing great food and people together. Teaching is the best way of doing this, and it is thrilling to be working with Giorgio and his wife Rachel in doing just that.’