Andaz Seoul Gangnam pours 7,000-won cocktails for three days
Cocktails, wine and beer drop to 7,000 won a glass at Andaz Seoul Gangnam through Sunday, as the hotel marks its seventh anniversary.
The happy hour runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Bites & Wine on the second floor, where snacks are also 7,000 won each, down from the usual 12,000 won. Arts Cafe on the first floor serves coffee and cafe lattes at 7,000 won over the same three days.
Through September, Jogakbo Kitchen and Meat & Co. Steak House take 20 percent off lunch and dinner for guests who book online, and course menus come with an anniversary welcome cocktail. The weekend brunch buffet adds a lobster pasta trolley, and Meat & Co.'s Friday jazz night expands to Saturdays for the month.
Grand Josun Busan pairs stay with surf art show
Eleven artists based in Korea, the US and Japan take surfing as a common language in "Searching2," an exhibition running through Sept. 30 at OKNP Busan on the fourth floor of Grand Josun Busan.
The hotel's Ride the Wave package is built around it. Guests get access to the show and a tote bag printed with work by Japanese artist Yusuke Hanai, redeemable at the gallery with a voucher handed out at check-in. The gallery opens from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closes on Mondays and over the Chuseok holiday.
Premier rooms add breakfast for two at the buffet restaurant Aria and lounge access for two adults and two children at Grand J.
The package starts at 308,000 won for a superior room. Bookings close Sept. 26, with stays through Sept. 30.
Westin Seoul Parnas marks first year with pastry champion Yusuke Aoki
A Korean autumn read through French pastry technique anchors the first anniversary of the Westin Seoul Parnas, which opened in September last year.
The hotel has brought in Yusuke Aoki, who trained under French master pastry chef Stephane Glacier and won the 2018 Valrhona Chocolate Chef Competition.
His Le Grand Salon afternoon tea runs through Oct. 31 at the lobby lounge and bar The Log, with pear tart, matcha citrus opera, fig cinnamon cake and hojicha mousse alongside savories including saffron snow crab brioche. A Mont Blanc parfait layered in Royal Copenhagen crystal closes the set, priced at 120,000 won for two.
Lifestyle boutique Edit sells his artisan chocolate cake, built on Valrhona Manjari mousse, for 110,000 won. Aoki runs a live dessert station at On:Table from Sept. 9 to 11.
Grand Hyatt Seoul turns Kilian Paris scent into drink
Kilian Hennessy grew up among the oak barrels of his family's cognac house before founding the French perfume label Kilian Paris, and his Angels' Share fragrance traces that memory through cognac, oak, cinnamon and tonka bean.
Grand Hyatt Seoul has taken the scent back to its source. The lobby lounge Gallery is serving three cocktails inspired by the collection through Oct. 31.
The namesake Angels' Share builds on Hennessy VSOP with vanilla sugar, cinnamon, Angostura bitters and walnut. Angels' Share Paradis adds vanilla syrup and raspberry eau-de-vie for a fruitier pour. The nonalcoholic Angels' Share on the Rocks mixes tonka bean syrup and cinnamon with fresh orange juice and sparkling water.
Signiel Seoul stocks Yannick Alleno's chocolate line
Michelin three-star chef Yannick Alleno has shaped dining at Signiel Seoul since the hotel opened in 2017, when he launched the modern French restaurant Stay on the 81st floor of Lotte Tower and began consulting on menus across the property.
That work now extends to chocolate. The Pastry Salon on the 79th floor is carrying Alleno & Rivoire, the brand he created with pastry chef Aurelien Rivoire.
The signature sticks, thin chocolate shells filled with praline in flavors including black sesame, salted pistachio, hazelnut and citrus, roasted peanut and roasted coconut, sell for 60,000 won for six pieces and 110,000 won for 12.
Sables, hazelnut biscuits wrapped in dark chocolate, are 50,000 won for ten. A praline collection of almond, Piedmont hazelnut, French flaxseed, US pecan and Indonesian coconut is 70,000 won for 10.
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