I am covering trend, food and fashion. Previously, I covered diplomacy, city, environment and unification.
HOTEL LOBBY
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By Kim Se-jeong
Conrad Seoul’s 37 Bar presents “Glam Night” every Wednesday for women only.
Between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., female guests can have a complimentary drink and then get discounts on all other drinks ― wine, beer or cocktails. A bottle of domestic beer costs 7,000 won and imported beer 9,000 won. The bar’s DJ provides entertainment, and one woman will win a small gift each week at the lucky draw.
For more information and reservations, call (02)6137-7110-1.
W Seoul-Walkerhill’s signature restaurant, “Kitchen,” is launching a fashion collaboration dining program in October featuring award-winning menswear designer Kwon Mun-soo.
“Gourmet Couture” will have five-course dinner menus inspired by Kwon’s style prepared by Kitchen chefs. The menu will include shrimp and black rice brioche salad with flower garnish; black sesame-crusted and grilled halibut with black sesame risotto and yellow saffron cream; “red paprika cleanser” as refreshments between courses; and prime beef striploin steak with blueberry and Barolo sauce. Dessert will include salty chocolate-crusted fig mousse with banana panna cotta gelato. The meals will be served every Friday for 120,000 won, with tax and service charge included. For more information and reservations, call (02)2022-0111.
Three Munsoo Kwon cocktails are also available at WooBar on the lobby floor in October. The cocktail cost is 26,000 won. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2022-0222.
Kwon launched his brand in New York through the 2012 Fall/Winter Collection. He was also a winner of the International Woolmark Prize for menswear earlier this year.
Renaissance Seoul Hotel presents the “Little Prince” package until Oct. 11 for children.
The package includes a one-night stay in a deluxe room, complimentary breakfast for two at the buffet restaurant Cafe Elysse, and access to the swimming pool, recreation center and sauna for two. Free Wi-Fi is also available in the room. The package includes four tickets to the musical “The Little Prince” by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company at the Seoul Arts Center. The hotel’s shuttle will provide transportation. The package costs 180,000 won, excluding service charge and taxes. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2222-8500.
Imperial Palace Seoul’s Chinese restaurant, CheonSan, presents dishes featuring pine mushrooms. The menus include stir-fried pine mushrooms with bean sprouts and duck meat, along with Beijing Duck; steam pine mushrooms with sea urchin roe; steamed beef ribs with pine mushrooms; and abalone topped with XO garlic fermented bean sauce. Entrees include stir-fried pine mushroom, sea cucumbers, Hong Kong-style natural pine mushroom and crab meat soup, and natural pine mushroom grill on salt.
It will cost 61,000 won for lunch and 110,000 won for dinner, excluding service charges and tax. For more information and reservations, call (02) 3440-8000.