Owner Vasco Matteucci

Born in Umbria Career : Co owner of Vasco & Piero's Pavilion in London's Soho . Son Paul runs front of house. Vasco and Piero opened the restaurant in 1971 above the much revered, and now sadly lost, Academy cinema in Oxford Street. The Pavilion, a former Hungarian tea room, was owned by the cinema’s founder, and director of the acclaimed ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, George Hoellering. The Pavilion’s very particular and unusually intricate interior design was the creation of Angus McBean, the celebrated photographer. In 1989, The Pavilion moved to the current premises at 15 Poland Street. Vasco and Piero created the restaurant out of a passion for good, uncomplicated food. The making of fresh pasta on the premises has always been a priority. From the outset, the menu changed twice a day, a tradition which still continues.