Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Le Lavandou from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Le Lavandou
L’Oursin, Le Mazet and Smash Club all serve a tasting menu and a wine list. L’Oursin holds a 2026 Michelin star, and Le Mazet holds a 2026 Michelin Plate.
L’Oursin is Le Lavandou’s Michelin-starred table, with an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. It offers tasting menu and à la carte formats, pairs contemporary Mediterranean fine dining with views over the Mediterranean Sea, and carries the 2026 Relais Chateaux Award.
Le Mazet is a Saint-Clair restaurant built around truffle-focused tasting menus by former Michelin-starred chef Patrice Hardy. Its wine list and Michelin Plate recognition sit alongside seasonal Provençal ingredients and a menu that can be ordered à la carte or as a tasting menu.
Smash Club is a Cavalière restaurant with modern French gastronomic cooking, a tasting menu and a wine list. Set in a leafy Conservatoire du Littoral site around a swimming pool, it adds a tasting-menu room to the quieter coastal edge of Le Lavandou.
These picks show how Le Lavandou eats by the water, with Provençal seafood, beachfront bistros and harbour-facing French cooking.
Les Tamaris - Chez Raymond is a Saint-Clair Beach restaurant serving traditional Provençal seafood, with wood-fired bouillabaisse and family-style dining. It holds Michelin Plate recognition and has been open since 1963, with a setting shaped by the beach at Saint-Clair.
Bistr'Eau Ryon is a Plage Saint-Clair restaurant with an extensive wine list and a set menu. The kitchen focuses on Mediterranean seafood bistro cooking, and the beachfront setting overlooks the Île du Levant from the terrace.
Planches & Gamelles is the centre ville’s first Provençal bouchon, with an extensive wine list and a vinothèque. It serves traditional Provençal French bistro cooking in an a la carte format, with a style built around boards, bowls and seasonal produce.
Le Lavandou, Saint-Clair Beach and Plage Saint-Clair stand out in our guide. Le Lavandou holds the Michelin-starred table, Saint-Clair Beach has Les Tamaris - Chez Raymond, and Plage Saint-Clair has Bistr'Eau Ryon. Those neighbourhoods also include tasting menus, seafood rooms and wine lists.
There is 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, with 1 Michelin star in total. That star is the 2026 Michelin star at L’Oursin in Le Lavandou. L’Oursin holds a Relais Chateaux Award for 2026 and serves contemporary Mediterranean fine dining as a tasting menu and à la carte, with an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service.
Look in Le Lavandou, Saint-Clair, Cavalière and La Fossette. L’Oursin, Le Mazet, Smash Club and Restaurant La Farigoulette Le Lavandou all offer tasting menus, and each of those neighbourhoods has a place in the tasting-menu side of our guide.
L’Oursin, Le Mazet, Bistr'Eau Ryon, Planches & Gamelles and Restaurant La Farigoulette Le Lavandou all have wine lists. L’Oursin also has an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service, while Bistr'Eau Ryon, Planches & Gamelles and La Farigoulette add extensive lists or a vinothèque.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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L'Oursin brings creative French seafood cooking to Le Lavandou's seafront, earning recognition for its approach to raw preparation and market-driven plates under chef Ilane Tinchant. Book ahead; walk-in availability is limited at peak season.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on the Var coast, Le Mazet brings Mediterranean cooking to the quieter end of Le Lavandou's restaurant scene. The kitchen works within the coastal crossroads tradition, where Provençal produce, Ligurian influence, and North African spice routes converge on the same table..
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Among the Michelin Plate-recognised seafood tables on the Var coast, Les Tamaris - Chez Raymond holds a particular position: a waterfront address on the Boulevard de la Baleine in Le Lavandou where the Mediterranean's warm, shallow waters define what reaches the kitchen. it draws a loyal crowd looking for direct, provenance-led seafood rather than elaborately constructed plates.
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On the sand at Plage Saint Clair, Bistr'Eau Ryon occupies the kind of position Le Lavandou's dining scene does well: water close enough to hear, a menu that leans on what the Var coast provides, and a format built around the logic of a beach afternoon rather than a formal dining room. For visitors working through the town's restaurant options, it sits in a distinct register from the fishing-heritage houses further along the shore.
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Bô sits on Avenue des Commandos d'Afrique in Le Lavandou, a Var coast town where the dining scene runs closer to the rhythms of the fishing port than to the Riviera resort circuit. With limited published data, the restaurant occupies a mid-tier position in a local field that includes seafood-forward addresses and Mediterranean-focused tables.
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Positioned at Le Lavandou's port, Chez Lana sits within a Côte d'Azur dining tradition where the rhythm of the harbour shapes the pace of the meal. The address places it among a cluster of port-side addresses that together define the town's casual-to-serious dining range. For visitors working through Le Lavandou's restaurant circuit, it represents the port quarter's character in a single table.
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Les Cinq Sens occupies a quiet address on Rue de Port-Cros in Le Lavandou, a small Var coast town where the Maures hills meet the Mediterranean. The restaurant draws from one of France's most ingredient-dense coastlines, placing it in a regional dining tier that sits well above the standard Riviera seafood formula. For visitors arriving from the larger resort circuit, it offers a noticeably different register.
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On the waterfront at 46 Quai Baptistin Pins, Planches & Gamelles occupies a position on Le Lavandou's harbour quay where the Var coast's produce culture is most visible. The name itself signals the format: boards and bowls, the kind of informal sharing approach that has come to define the better end of Côte d'Azur casual dining. For a town with serious competition along its restaurant strip, this address holds its own.
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On the Var coast where the rhythm of a meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate, Restaurant La Farigoulette occupies a address at 1 Avenue du Capitaine Thorel in Le Lavandou. The restaurant draws on the Provençal tradition of unhurried dining, courses timed to conversation, ingredients sourced from a coastline that runs east toward Saint-Tropez and west toward Marseille. It sits within a compact dining scene where seafood and Mediterranean produce set the register for the whole town.
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On the Var coast where the hinterland meets the sea, Saint Pons occupies a stretch of Le Lavandou that sits apart from the harbour strip. Compared to the town's more casual seafood addresses, it operates in a quieter register, positioned for those who want proximity to the Maures and the Mediterranean without the noise of the waterfront. Practical details remain sparse, which makes early enquiry advisable before any visit.
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On the Cavalière stretch of Le Lavandou's coastline, Smash Club occupies an address on Avenue du Golf that places it at the quieter, residential edge of a town better known for its fishing harbour than its dining scene. The name signals something casual and direct, which sets useful expectations for a corner of the Var coast where relaxed format often outperforms formal ambition.
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A Relais & Châteaux property on the Var coast, Hôtel Les Roches sits directly above the sea at Le Lavandou with a panoramic pool, private terraces, and rates from US$713 per night. The architecture works the clifftop site hard, framing Mediterranean views from most rooms. It occupies a quieter tier of the French Riviera than Saint-Tropez or Nice, making it a deliberate choice for guests who want the coast without the crowds.
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Awarded Gault & Millau's Exceptional Hotel distinction for 2025, Hôtel Le Club de Cavalière & Spa occupies the quieter, more composed end of the Côte d'Azur's luxury hotel spectrum.
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Bar des Roches sits beside the pool at 1 Av. des 3 Dauphins in Le Lavandou, placing it in the seaside-drinking register rather than the urban cocktail-club circuit.
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Bar du Levant is a poolside bar at 1 Av. des 3 Dauphins in Le Lavandou, useful for readers who want the Côte d’Azur drinking experience without the formality of a palace bar. The appeal lies in setting and tempo rather than documented awards, chef-led cuisine, or a published cocktail canon; treat it as a coastal stop where location drives the decision.
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