ØSP Description

Trio-concept venue ØSP off of Yanping Lu is the brainchild of previous World’s 50 Best China and South Korea chair, foodie extraordinaire and luxury dining scene aficionado, Boris Yu. His opulent taste can be noted in all aspects from concept to design to menus to execution; there are no corners being cut, unless it's by the highest end chef’s knife on the market.

The letters of the venue each stand for one of the three components; Ø is for Ømakase – a dining room featuring one multi-course chef’s menu for RMB880; S stands for Savøur – a cocktail lounge and bar with drinks curated by the Hope & Sesame team plus an impressive spread of snacks of all sizes; and P represents Pøp – an upstairs 10-seater pop-up kitchen with a rotating chef-arranged menu plus wine pairings for RMB990.

The idea is to migrate between the spaces as the night evolves – a nibble here, a standing drink at one of the three 360-degree bar stations over there, a wine pairing dinner at high-top tables upstairs, followed by a resettlement in a button-tufted plush couch on the main floor.

Like a contemporary art gallery for chefs to display their most eccentric work, the whole concept – from ‘chefs in residence,’ to interactive dining, to boundary-pushing, ever-evolving sips and snacks that make you delve into existential questions like ‘what even is a cocktail’ – is exceedingly avant-garde.