He is the founder-partner and chef de cuisine of restaurants Mr & Mrs Bund, Ultraviolet, and cafe Polux, all located in Shanghai, China.

A chef/instructor who demonstrated diffusion and biochemical reactions in cooking impressed him as a student, and he decided to become a chef.

In 2005, he settled in Shanghai to open Jade on 36, an avant-garde restaurant in the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel until he left in 2008.

In February 2010, Pairet presented his idea for a restaurant of one table that used technology to offer an immersive, multi-sensory dining experience in public for the first time, at the OFF5 Omnivore Food Festival in Deauville, France.

[9][10][11][12] After planning and development since 1996, this idea became the restaurant Ultraviolet, which opened in Shanghai in an undisclosed location in May 2012.

The restaurant's unique concept is based on Pairet's theory of “psycho-taste”, or the psychology and emotions associated with food.

[29] Since October 2014, Ultraviolet has been one of the members of Les Grandes Tables du Monde.

Pairet featured whole pieces of meat and fish for mains, carved and served at the peak of the dishes – "released based on a nightly schedule, the names and times of which are displayed with prices and available portions on a digital screen with live updates of 'buy now' and 'sold out' statuses.

In mid-March 2019, Pairet opened an all-day dining, French cafe called Polux, in Xintiandi Shanghai.

[36][37] Pairet appeared as a guest judge in the 5th episode of Top Chef France Season 10 which was released on 6 March 2019.