Restaurant Reviews: Ultraviolet in Shanghai

by Ian D’Agata

Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet

Address: a well-kept secret

Meeting point: 6th floor, 18 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu

(at the Mr. and Mrs. Bund restaurant)

Huangpu district, Shanghai

200002 China

Tel. +86 21 6323 9898

The food, the wines and the music

Act I -The Sea

Abalone Primitive ( ash / yuzu / dill)

Duval-Leroy Champagne Grand Cru Brut Femme de Champagne

Music: Ghost in the Shell

Langoustine (sand shell)

Nicolas Joly/Clos de la Coulée de  Serrant 2021 Savennières Loire

Music: Time Puzzle

Very Sea – Very Sea Scallop (sea urchin / seaweed /lime / sea snow shell)

Jean-Marc Boillot 2020 Montagny Premier Cru Cote Chalonnaise Burgundy

Music: Sea – Adagio Cantabile

Surf Surf Turf Turf (Grilled oyster / cuttlefish & foie gras / sour jus)

Ridge Vineyards 2015 Monte Bello Santa Cruz Mountains California

Music: Beach Boys Campfire

Infusion (Allium Tuuberosum Dashi Broth)

Music: Drips &Van Morrison

Act II – The Land

Picnic Tin (D.I.Y.A.B.L.T.)

Tomato Basil Water

Music: Hoo-Ha & Clo Clo

Bread (Truffle-Burnt Soup Bread)

Louis Jadot 2020 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Côte de Beaune Burgundy

Music: Autumn Soil – Cigar & Carnivalse

Mushroooommssss (Light Textures)

What’s left of the Corton-Charlemagne above

Music: Red Woods – Falling  Leaves

Intermission Espresso Royale

Martell X.O Petit Carajillo

Act III – Asia

Candle In The Wind Lavender-Honey-Wax-Sesame-Black Cod

Domaine Matrot 2016 Puligny-Montrachet La Quintessence Burgundy

Music: Marseille-Shanghai-Jasmin Qui Parle

The Black Pepper Beef (Digestive Butter Lettuce)

Domaine Trapet Père et Fils 2010 Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru Côte de Nuits Burgundy

Music: Hawker Stall-Singapore

Think (Lapsang Souchong  – A real Cup of Tea)

Music: Think Fast This Is Not A Pipe

Beijing Cola Duck (10 Years)

Plum & Rice Asia Libre

Music: Mao & Moa

Act IV – Dessert

Lunar Mushroom (Nutmeg – Grand Marnier- Yakult)

Grand Marnier Centenaire Slush

Music: Fly Me To The Moon

Wood Eggplant (Hazelnut Tahini Bread Woods)

Woodford Reserve Light Bourbon Whiskey

Music: Woods & Roudoudou

No Peach Melba (Rasberry Peach Chantilly)

Music: The Unbearable Lightness Of A Lot Of Nothing

La Peanut (Nada…Peanut…Une Cacahuète… Bip)

Inniskillin 2017 Vidal Ice Wine Gold Label Niagara Peninsula

Music: Bip – Pong – Pac-Man – Popcorn

Taste, the last frontier. If you were to think and say that Ultraviolet boldly takes you where nobody has before, it would be hard to argue.

Ultraviolet offers one of the world’s most unique and immersive dining experiences. It is also one of the most expensive, and Ultraviolet has been defined as either the world’s most expensive restaurant or, at no worse, in the top three (think like, roughly, 1000 euros or 1200 dollars a person). But it is also one that is truly unlike any other you might have experienced before. As good a The Ledbury, Arpège, Dal Pescatore or The French Laundry might be, nothing out there even remotely comes close to what Ultraviolet offers, and is about. For at Ultraviolet places diners into a new restaurant universe, one where they travel through a multi-sensory experience where each dish is part of a dining journey. Each night, only ten diners sit at a long communal table, plunged into a stimulation of all the senses, with a dazzling combination of colours, aromas, flavours, sounds and textures at once innovative and unique.

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Ian D’Agata
Ian D’Agata

Ian D’Agata is an internationally famous, multi-award winning author who has been speaking and writing about wine for thirty years. His latest books (Native Wine Grapes of Italy, Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs, Italy’s Grapes and Wines: The definitive Compendium Region by Region and the most recent, Barolo Terroir) are considered the bibles of Italian wine and have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards “Book of the Year” title, the Gourmand World Book Awards “Best European Wine Book” and being named to the “Best Wine Books of the Year” lists of newspapers and magazines such as the NY Times, the Financial Times and Food & Wine. For eight years, Ian has also been the co-author of the Italy section in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, the world’s best- selling wine guide with 46 editions to date and over 12 Million copies sold all over the world; he has since been also put in charge of the Alsace and Malta sections.
He is the is currently the President of Ian D’Agata Wine Culture, one of China’s wine education platforms, that includes the Ian D’Agata Wine Review and the Ian D’Agata Wine Academy. Ian is a former staff writer at Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, Contributing Editor of Decanter, and Senior Editor of Vinous. His writings have always focused on the wines of Italy, France, China and Canada, for which he has won numerous international awards and accolades, including the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia “Best Youngest Wine Journalist of Italy” and the “Best Wine Journalist of Italy” awards, as well as Canada’s 2018 VQA award (Out of Ontario section) and 2017 Cuvée Award of Excellence.
Intensely devoted to the research and study of native wine grapes, Ian was officially named in 2015 to Italy’s prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino (Italy’s official association of wine academicians, researchers, and university professors) and is currently the Vice President of the Association Internationale des Terroirs.

Contacts: Instagram: @ian_dagata; Email: iandomenicodagata@outlook.it

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