Perhaps the next Rudolph van Veen or Pierre Wind will come from this VMBO school: François Vatel. The prize-winning vmbo school in The Hague celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with a brand new kitchen. That is good news for students and restaurant guests.
Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you can eat a three-course lunch at Restaurant Vatel for 9.50 euros. On Thursday the students serve a three-course dinner with amuse-bouche for 14.50 euros. And they are now making it in the brand new kitchen.
Good for all catering in The Hague
Cees van der Ende is former director of François Vatel. He opened the new kitchen together with Peter Lamers – chairman of the Executive Board of the Spinoza School Group.
“Like director Marco van Wijngaarden, I think that good education goes hand in hand with certain investments,” says Peter. “If we train students well, this is a great thing for the hospitality industry in the Hague region. In short, you can see this new kitchen as an ‘in-depth investment’”.
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Moving with the times
Peter: “In addition to the 75th anniversary of the school, we are celebrating the opening of the kitchen where the students are trained by skilled teachers. When the school moved to this location in Mariahoeve twenty years ago, we took the kitchen with us. That is why the school needed a new kitchen.”
special name
François Vatel is the eldest catering and bakery school from The Netherlands. The name of the pre-vocational secondary school is no coincidence: François Vatel was a world-famous chef in the seventeenth century. “He impressed the rest of the world with his fantastic dishes,” says Peter. “It is therefore great that as a school you can bear his name.”
This is VMBO school François Vatel
François Vatel is a small, well-organized school where 12 to 18-year-olds can immediately put their love for cooking and baking into practice. In the lower years they already get a few hours of practice in cooking and baking, which forms a super nice basis for a career in the hospitality industry. The collaboration with ROC Mondriaan makes it even easier for students to move on to other catering courses at MBO level.
Do you want to know more about François Vatel? On October 19, 2022 there will be an extra open house from 5 to 8 p.m. Take a look at all François Vatel courses or call 070-340000 for a tour.