20-06-2013
A table with only 10 seats, 22 dishes served over 4 hours, with the aid of waiters as well as audio and video technicians: this is the synthesis of Ultraviolet, a restaurant in Shanghai, China, conceived by French chef Paul Pairet. The address is unknown and there is no telephone number: if you want to live this experience (2.500 yuan, about 300 euros) you need to send an email to info@uvbypp.cc. The meeting point is at Mr&Miss Bund: from there, you will be guided by limo to the restaurant (blindfold!)
The premise: the food is of the highest quality and food, with 22 dishes each paired by a different drink (ranging from wine to beer, from cider to aromatised water and tea), is the protagonist of the sensorial parkour lasting over 4 hours that you’re about to experience. The journey, however, is like a novel divided into phases, which implies different feelings. The first impression is that of participating in a delicious, but also a little intimidating, Truman Show.
The foie gras cigarette
Fabien Verdier
Paul Pairet and Claudio Grillenzoni
Tasty reports from China and the Far East from our collaborator Claudio Grillenzoni
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A journalist with the bad habit of xenophilia (natural, he's a Germanist) and food (he's from Modena ), he now lives a happy life in China, in Shanghai, building connections between East and West