What is fusion cuisine?
Fusion cuisine blends, within a single plate, the flavours, produce and techniques of several culinary traditions. With us, it's a meeting between France and the World — homemade, in Lorgues.
One dish, several cultures at the table
The word “fusion” describes a cuisine that brings together, in a single dish, ingredients and know-how from different regions or countries. It isn't about placing two recipes side by side, but making them converse: a French base, a spice from elsewhere, a technique borrowed from another table.
The idea is not to pile it on. A good fusion stays legible: every flavour keeps its place, the seasonal produce leads the dance, and the journey is felt without ever muddling the plate.
A base from here, a twist from elsewhere.
Where does fusion cuisine come from?
The meeting of cuisines is as old as the trade routes: spices, citrus, chillies and techniques travelled long before we did. Modern fusion cuisine truly came into its own from the 1970s and 1980s, when chefs began openly marrying Western and Asian traditions.
Since then it has freed itself from borders: Franco-Japanese, Tex-Mex, Nikkei (Japan-Peru)… so many ways of saying the same thing — cultures taste better together.
Flavours have always travelled.
How we cook fusion, here
We always start from local, seasonal produce — that of the Var and Provence — then slip in an inspiration from elsewhere: a marinade, a sweet-and-savoury pairing, a cooking method borrowed from another cuisine of the world.
Everything is cooked on site and the menu changes every week: never the same stopover twice. And for lovers of the classics, there's always a fine butcher's cut.
France & World, at every stopover.
What does fusion look like?
Three ways, among others, of sending a plate travelling without ever leaving the table.
Every plate tells a journey
At Carnets de Voyage, fusion isn't a passing trend: it's thirty years of travel settled into a 1780 house. You sit down in Lorgues and taste France and the World at the same table — on the shaded terrace or in the hidden garden.
Keep the journey going
Fusion cuisine is also told beyond the plate. Open the journal, leaf through the menu, push the door of the house open.
Your questions about fusion cuisine
What exactly is fusion cuisine?
It's the art of bringing together, in a single dish, flavours, produce and techniques from several culinary traditions — for instance a French base and an inspiration from elsewhere — without one overpowering the other.
What's the difference with world cuisine?
World cuisine presents dishes from different countries, each in its own tradition. Fusion, on the other hand, blends those influences within a single dish to create something new.
Is fusion necessarily complicated or exotic?
No. A good fusion stays legible and delicious: the seasonal produce leads the dish and the journey is felt in touches. You can enjoy it without being a food connoisseur.
What does Carnets de Voyage offer in fusion cuisine?
France & World fusion cuisine, homemade from local, seasonal produce, with a menu renewed every week. On Friday lunchtime, chef Benjamin creates a menu at €16.
Are there vegetarian options in fusion cuisine?
Yes. On every menu, a vegetarian dish is cooked and designed for itself, never by default, and allergens are indicated.
Leaf through this week's menu, then book your table in our 1780 house in Lorgues.