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Book well in advance for the one seating per night. The experience costs RMB3000 ($435) per person. 1
Introduction
Concept
- 🎨 Avant-Garde: The restaurant is described as avant-garde, focusing on a multi-sensory dining experience.
- 🔬 Multi-Sensory Technology: Uses dry scent projectors, stage and UV lighting, 360-degree wall projection, table projectors, beam speakers, and a multichannel speaker system.
- 🧠 Psycho Taste: Concept developed by Paul Pairet to enhance the dining experience through memories, associations, and emotions.
- 📜 History: Concept evolved since 1996 and was publicly presented in 2010.
- 🏛️ Design: The dining room is ascetic with no decor, artifacts, paintings, or views.
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Menu
- 🍽️ Courses: 20+ course dinner menu.
- 🔄 Rotations: Three menu options (UVA, UVB, UVC) on weekly rotations.
- 🍷 Wine Pairings: Special menu UV8888 combines the best of all three menus with prestige wine pairings.
- 🍔 DIY BLT: A picnic that allows you to piece together your own special sandwich.
- 🍱 Foie Gras Can’t Quit: Crisp fruit skin cigar stub jam-packed with foie gras.
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Experience
- 🚐 Starting Point: Begins at Mr & Mrs Bund with cocktails and a first bite.
- 🎥 Transport: Guests are shuttled through Shanghai to a secret location.
- 🚪 Entrance: Large door opens to a stark room with a single table.
- 🔄 Transformation: Room transforms with each course through lights, sounds, and scents.
- 🕺 Service: Carried by a superbly choreographed service team.
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Awards
- ⭐ Michelin Stars: 3 Michelin stars since 2017.
- 🏆 Asia's 50 Best: Ranked 8th in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants in 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2018.
- 🌍 World's 50 Best: Ranked 24th in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2015 and 2018.
- 🎨 Art of Hospitality: Winner of the Art of Hospitality Award in 2018.
- 📜 Les Grandes Tables du Monde: First Chinese restaurant to join this organization in 2014.
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Reviews
- 📰 The New York Times: Described as 'the next steps in the chain of culinary evolution'.
- 🗞️ Sydney Morning Herald: 'Probably the most avant-garde restaurant in the world.'
- 🕵️ Time Out Shanghai: 'Radical, and very much worth the wait.'
- 📜 Condé Nast Traveller: 'China's most immersive foodie experience.'
- 🍷 Food & Wine: 'An evening at Ultraviolet is a surreal drama.'
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| Travel Information |
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| 🌐 Website: http://uvbypp.cc/ |
| 📍 Address: Waitan, Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 200002 |
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