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Lotte Hotel Seoul

Lotte Hotel Seoul’s Italian trattoria Peninsula will be relocated to VINE Wine Restaurant & Bar’s venue on Friday as Italian dining & wine restaurant.

The new Peninsula can accomodate up to 118 guests at a casual dining hall and four private rooms, an Italian terrace café leads to an open bar outside.

Based on Peninsula’s original menu of authentic antipasto, pasta, and pizza, new Italian dishes and wines will be added.

To celebrate the reopening of Peninsula, a “Long Line Pasta Table” event will be held on the day from 6:30pm in the open-air terrace café. A long and large table will seat 100 guests together for a tantalizing evening of Italian buffet and wine.

The dinner will serve antipasto, pizza, pasta, wine as well as desserts. This event will surely be the largest dinner table in Korea.

Participation fee will be 50,000 won per person.

In the month of July, Peninsula will offer special lunch and dinner set menus comprised of five to six courses at 50,000~80,000 won. Guests ordering the special lunch set can enjoy a complimentary glass of white wine, and those ordering the special dinner will be served with a complimentary glass of white wine and a glass of red wine. In addition, a selection of 30 Italian white and red wines will be offered at a 30 percent discount. A combination of premium cheese and salami will be provided free of charge for each wine purchase.

For more information, call (02)317-7121/7151.

Park Hyatt Seoul

Park Hyatt Seoul presents the VIB (Very Important Baby) program for guests who want to enjoy their leisure time with their babies. It includes healthy menus for babies and children, customized baby-sitting service and complimentary baby products for those staying in guestrooms with babies under the age of three.

The baby foods include vegetable purée, chicken or beef purée and fruit compote purée. Menus such as home-made pasta, cheese omelette, cheeseburger, veal cutlet and homemade ice cream are also available for children.

When guests enter the room, a large sheep doll and complimentary gifts of a Park Hyatt Seoul cookie, a teddy bear and a cute T-shirt for babies under the age of three are set up to welcome families with babies.

With AromaBaby’s bath and body products, a rubber duck and a baby bathrobe set up in the spa-inspired bathroom, guests can bathe with their babies.

When reservations are made in advance, Park Hyatt Seoul offers a baby-sitting service. An English baby-sitting service for international guests is also available upon request.

The fees for babysitting service are priced at 38,000 won for Korean “nannies,” and 45,000 won for English-speaking ones.

All mentioned prices are excusive of tax.

For more information, call (02) 2016-1100 or (02) 2016-1234.

The Ritz-Carlton Seoul

The Ritz-Bar of the Ritz-Carlton Seoul features the bartending artistry of Do hwan Um, winner of the ‘World Classic’.

He will be creating Hawaiian-style tropical cocktails using exotic ingredients like pineapple and red mango. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Um will be personally customizing cocktails for guests at the bar. The tropical cocktail set for two runs about 120,000 won, exclusive of tax.

The Garden restaurant has on offer BBQ set menus ranging from 85,000 won to 100,000 won, exclusive of tax, highlighted by tropical fruits such as pineapple and mango. At the Oksan Buffet, guests can enjoy Hawaiian-style seafood and grilled food with seasonings.

Guests who participate in the “Welcome to Wakiki” promotion will be eligible for a lucky-draw. The winner will be able to take his or her guest to Busan (two KTX roundtrip tickets), take a surfboarding lesson, “couple” swimsuits, and Quicksilver t-shirts. The Garden and Oksan Buffet guests are eligible to win a tropical fruit basket.

For more information, call (02) 3451-8000.

The Sheraton Incheon Hotel

YUE, the Chinese restaurant of the Sheraton Incheon Hotel, features special six-course tonic foods that will stimulate guests to fight the summer heat.

From June 22nd to July 7th, it offers a special set menu including roast duck salad with aloe vera, shark’s fin soup with fresh bamboo root and shitake mushrooms and steamed oxtail in bamboo with chestnut jujube, all at 80,000 won.

In addition, the popular Chinese tonic dish ‘Buldojang’, which is known as for the name of ‘Buddha jumps over the wall’, is also enjoyed as a la carte during summer season at 60,000 won.

All the prices above are exclusive of tax and service charge.

For more information, call (032)835-1718/1719 or visit www.sheratonincheon.co.kr.