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HOTEL LOBBY
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By Kim Se-jeong
Millennium Seoul Hilton’s Chinese restaurant Taipan is featuring ginseng in October.
Featured dishes include Cantonese roast duck served with honey glazed fresh ginseng; stir-fried live lobster and fresh ginseng with garlic and red chili; and fried rice with fresh ginseng and black chicken wrapped in lotus leaf.
Ginseng’s health benefits include boosting the immune system and lowering blood sugar. A dish will start from 28,000 won, including taxes and service charge. For more information and reservations, call (02) 317-3237.
W Seoul-Walkerhill will open its two restaurants for open-bar happy hour promotion. At Namu, the Japanese restaurant, a two-hour open bar will offer five Japanese drinks for 80,000 won per person every Friday evening. If two hours are too short, guests can add 40,000 won for one additional hour. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2022-0222.
Woobar, the hotel’s stylish bar, offers unlimited wine, champagne and beer every evening for three hours at 89,000 won. If you want beer only, it will be 49,000 won, while wine and beer only will cost 69,000 won. Taxes and service charge are included in the prices. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2022-0333.
Grand Hyatt Seoul’s Japanese restaurant Akasaka presents 12 seasonal specials until Oct. 25, featuring hair tail, eggplant and pine mushroom.
The menu will include thick slices of hair tail fried and smothered in radish sauce; roasted eggplant seasoned with Japanese Miso sauce; roasted eggplant and avocado seasoned in spicy-salty wasabi soy sauce; and roasted eggplant and white yam.
The specials will be served both during lunch and dinner hours and cost between 25,000 won and 45,000 won per dish. For more information and reservations, call (02) 799-8164 or visit seoulgrandhyattrestaurants.kr.
Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel’s signature restaurant Feast presents a dessert promotion until Oct. 28.
Pastry chef Roberto Hernandez will feature mango passion fruit coconut cake, strawberry lime mascarpone cake, minim black forest glasses, milk chocolate banana spice cake, strawberry orange panna cotta and macaroon fresh fruit tarts. A cup of tea or coffee will be served. For more information about the promotion or reservations, call (02) 2211-1710.
Conrad Seoul’s 37 Grill & Bar presents an express lunch menu for busy business guests.
The three-course meal will include an appetizer of salad, a choice of main dish and dessert. A salad bar will also be available. Meat, poultry, seafood, pasta and rice are available for the main dish, and fruits and homemade ice cream will be served afterward. The lunch hour will be between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. It will cost 59,000 won, including taxes and service charge. Without the appetizer, the meal costs 48,000 won. The restaurant also has two private rooms, with the capacity of hosting eight people, each. For more information and reservations call (02) 6137-7110.