Vervinia

Description

Nestled in Chanos-Curson, Vervinia offers a rare experience: a unique table for 16 guests facing Chef César Crouzet. In this uncluttered setting, every gesture becomes a living spectacle, every dish an original creation. Inspired by the Drôme region Vervinia isn't a big restaurant: it's a house. A unique table for sixteen guests in the heart of Chanos-Curson, where nature sets the pace and every detail has been thought out, shaped and felt. The wood of the tables, the ceramic of the plates, the light that glides over the stone... here, everything tells a story even before a dish arrives.

Vervinia is an extension of me. An intimate, contemporary and sincere space where I reveal myself without artifice. A place where refinement meets simplicity, where silence dialogues with matter. Those who walk through the door don't just come to dine: they enter into an experience - rare, immersive, confidential.

I believe that cooking is a form of love. It demands time, rigor and sensitivity. It demands the right balance between controlled gesture, emotion, and the letting go that allows living things to express themselves.

Vervinia is that balance. Everything I've learned, everything I've been through, everything I've searched for comes together here. Each dish is a memory reinvented; each guest a mirror of what I want to transmit: the beauty of the simple, the nobility of the true, the accuracy of taste.

I'm not trying to tell an extraordinary story. Just my own. That of a child from the Drôme who grew up between verbena and vines, and chose to make a world of it: Vervinia.

Here, fire doesn't burn: it enlightens. And every plate is a promise of sincerity and poetry.

Prices

Adult menu: from 95 €.

Opening

From 01/01 to 31/12/2026 on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 9.30 am and 11.30 pm. On Sunday between 9.30 am and 2 pm. Closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Characteristics

Guide categories

Collège Culinaire de France

Specialities

Vegetarian cuisine, offers dishes 'homemade', Traditional French cooking, Vegetarian dishes

Sleeps

16 people

Groups size: maximum 16 people

Languages spoken

  • English
  • French

Payment methods

  •  Bank/credit card
  •  Cash
  •  Check
  •  Contactless payment

Services

  •   Restaurant
  •   Shady grounds
  •   Booking obligatory
  •   Shop
  •   Online shop
  •   Wi-fi
  •   Family Reception/drinks reception

Takeaway

Boutique selling local products

New for 2026

The name came naturally. Vervinia unites verbena and grapevine, the two pillars of my life as a chef. Verbena embodies plant life, freshness and clarity. The vine embodies the earth, memory and transmission. Between the two, there's my culinary writing: a cuisine d'auteur, local, sensitive, in direct contact with local producers.

When I cook, I don't try to impress. I seek to touch. To provoke a memory, an emotion, an inner resonance. For me, a dish is a language: it tells of the season, the climate, the living, the moment. I compose with plants, earth, fire and slowness. I refuse to freeze things: I want to make them vibrate, to make them exist.

Special holiday menu

Special holiday menus will be available.

Gift voucher

Pick up your gift vouchers at https://vervinia.shop.bonkdo.com/fr/bons-cadeaux

Seminar and reception rooms

Informations

  • Maximum capacity: 16 people

Services

  •  Family Reception/drinks reception

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