Why go: Set in an anonymous bunker on the outskirts of central Shanghai, Ultraviolet offers a fine-dining experience that is staggeringly innovative. Over a 20-course menu, just 10 diners a night are immersed in an environment that manipulates and melds light, sound, scent, temperature and theatre to create a culinary experience beyond compare.

The experience: Furnished simply with five chairs standing on either side of a communal dining table, windowless and ostensibly featureless Ultraviolet can in fact legitimately claim to be the world's most pioneering restaurant. As different dishes arrive, highly advanced video projection technology turns its blank walls into a canvas; bespoke scents emanate at requisite points; and a cleverly chosen soundtrack sets the appropriate mood - over one surreal, delicious evening, diners are transported to one alternative, all-enveloping environment after another. Think of the setting as an early incarnation of the Star Trek Holodeck.