[Around the Hotels] Promotions and packages

Filipino cuisine at Millennium Seoul Hilton

The Millennium Seoul Hilton’s flagship buffet restaurant Cafe 395 will introduce Phlippine cuisine prepared by Filipina celebrity chef Michelle Adrilliana until June 13.

Adrilliana is renowned in the Philippines for her culinary prowess, working as chef, restaurant consultant as well as ambassador of Filipino cuisine around the world. Adrilliana visited Guangzhou, Sydney and Doha prior to coming to Seoul.

Alongside a live cooking station offering beef, steak, lobster, prawns as well as sushi and salad, signature dishes of the Philippines, such as prawn sinigang in crab fat broth, chicken piaparan, ginataang kuhol, ampalaya con carne, kare kare, kaldereta, lumpiang hubad, kwek kwek, fish balls with kariton sauce and okoy with adobo vinaigrette will be served.

The lunch is 94,000 won and dinner is 99,000 won per person. For information and reservation, call (02) 317-3062.

Italian cuisine at Park Hyatt Seoul

The Cornerstone, an Italian restaurant at Park Hyatt Seoul, will offer authentic Italian cuisine prepared by new head chef Valentino Chirico from June 5-18.

Chef Chirico, a native of Torino in northern Italy with familial roots in southern Italy, will offer special dishes mixing the recipes of the north and south. His four-course menu is priced at 109,000 won for both lunch and dinner. Appetizers include a choice of octopus carpaccio with orange-flavored arugula pesto or a grandmother-style crisp parmigiana eggplant with buffalo mozzarella. Pastas include black-ink seafood fregola sarda with crisp baby octopus or durum wheat strascinati with duck ragout. The main dish features a mackerel Alla Beccafico with saffron sauce or Ischia-styled rabbit casserole.

Desserts include Piedmont pudding and mascarpone grappa ice cream or Sicilian cassatina with goat ricotta cheese and blood orange sherbet. For information and reservations, call (02) 2016-1220/1221.

Lobster promotion at Conrad Seoul

The 37 Grill & Bar located on the 37th floor of Conrad Seoul will offer a promotion of lobster dishes from June 5-30.

The six-course menu features an amuse-bouche as appetizer, followed by a cold lobster melon soup and bisque risotto with lobster meat. Pina Colada sorbet is offered before the main dish of grilled Wagyu strip loin steak with butter-poached lobster and ginseng-celeriac puree. Vanilla ice cream is offered as dessert. The price is 145,000 won per person. For information and reservations, call (02) 6137-7110.

Seafood buffet at Sheraton Seoul D Cube City

The Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel will feature a seafood dinner buffet at its restaurant Feast from June 5 through July 27.

The “Shell We Feast” promotion offers freshly steamed seafood throughout the week, including snow crab, king shrimp, scallop, abalone, corb shells, middle mussels, short-necked clams and date mussels. The price starts at 84,000 won per person.

Seating is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, and from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. from Sunday to Friday. The restaurant is located on the 41st floor of the hotel. For information and reservations, call (02) 2211-1710 or 1711.

Italian food at Grand Hyatt Incheon

The Grand Hyatt Incheon is offering a promotion of Italian foods and beverages until June 30. Dubbed the Italian Aperitivo promotion, the package comprises a pre-dinner drink accompanied by appetizers, ideal for friends, colleagues and families to enjoy time together before dinner.

It features Italian morsels including poached egg with bottarga and asparagus, abalone fregolavongole, Spinach ricotta cheese gnudi, stuffed bell pepper chicken and popular fritto misto.

Wines -- including Beso Caba Reserva NV and CorteGiara Soave -- are matched with antipasto by the hotel’s executive sommelier. Call the hotel at (032) 745-1234.