An art gallery at the table, in the heart of the Var
At Carnets de Voyage, in Lorgues, art doesn't stay on a museum wall — it comes to your table. Works by local artists in the lounge, open-air antiques in the garden — a stopover where you dine surrounded by paintings, in the green Provence.
A restaurant in the Var where you eat among the artworks
No white gallery walls here, no hushed room. Canvases and salvaged pieces live alongside the set tables: you sit down, look up, and a work answers back. The gallery is part of the meal.
This gallery-table sits in a 1780 house, among the vines of the Côtes de Provence and the hilltop villages of the Var — just minutes from Draguignan. People come as much for the France & World fusion cuisine as to wander from one canvas to the next.
Art comes to the table.
Step into the gallery & the antiques
The art gallery and the open-air antiques are a world of their own. Carry on the visit and plan your stay:
Works by local artists, on the lounge wall
The lounge walls host artists from the region: paintings, drawings, creations that change with the seasons. One hang comes down, another goes up — never quite the same lounge twice.
You dine surrounded by art, wander from one canvas to the next between courses, and sometimes leave with a favourite tucked under your arm.
Wander from one canvas to the next.
Open-air antiques, among the garden tables
Beyond the lounge, the hidden garden turns into open-air antiques: salvaged furniture, ceramics, travel trunks and finds gathered over the seasons. You browse between two tapas, in the shade of the plane trees — part of the setting is yours to take home.
Fallen for a piece? It leaves with you
Canvases, drawings, furniture and objects are for sale directly: no middleman, no hidden commission. You ask the team for the price, chat with the artist or antique dealer when they're around, and the work leaves the wall for your own living room.
It's also a way to support the artists of the Var: every piece sold helps them keep creating, right here in Provence.
For sale, on site.
The gallery, in three markers
Free entry, at the table
No ticket, no opening-night hours: the gallery is visited alongside the meal, lunch and dinner.
A hang that rotates
The works change with the seasons and the invited artists — every stopover holds new discoveries.
For sale directly
Canvases, objects and salvaged furniture are for sale on site. Just ask the team for the price.
The restaurant's art gallery, made clear
Where is this art gallery in the Var?
At the Carnets de Voyage restaurant, 12 avenue Allongue, in Lorgues (83510), in the heart of the green Provence — about fifteen minutes from Draguignan and Vidauban.
Do I need to eat to see the artworks?
The gallery is part of the place: you discover it while having lunch or dinner. There's no separate entry ticket — the hang is visited as the meal goes on.
Are the works and objects for sale?
Yes, everything is for sale directly: paintings, drawings, salvaged furniture and antiques. Simply ask the team for the price.
Does the hang change often?
Regularly: the lounge walls host artists from the region and the hang rotates with the seasons. Rarely the same lounge two visits in a row.
Are you an artist or antique dealer wishing to exhibit?
Gladly. From the lounge to the garden, we open our walls and our antiques to the Var's creators and treasure-hunters — write to us to talk it over.
Book your table at Carnets de Voyage, in Lorgues, and let the gallery and the antiques come to your meal.