About LOTTE City Hotel 19F Buffet
LOTTE City Hotel 19F Buffet is the city's high-end-hotel-buffet celebration-dinner standby — the LOTTE Hotels-and-Resorts mid-tier property on Daedeok-daero (the central-business-district main-artery) that holds the Daejeon's panoramic-view-from-the-19th-floor buffet at the value-for-five-star-hotel-buffet pricing. The restaurant occupies the LOTTE City Hotel Daejeon 19th floor, with the floor-to-ceiling-windows wrapping the perimeter (panoramic-view of the Daedeok-daero-and-Daejeon-cityscape, the Hanbat-arboretum, the Daejeon-Hanbat-Stadium, and on-clear-days the Bomun-mountain-ridgeline), and the central live-cooking-station-array (the carving-station, the wok-station, the sushi-station, the dim-sum-station, and the dessert-station).
The buffet runs the international-spread with the Korean-emphasis. The signatures are the carving-station Korean-hanu-beef rotating-spit (the 1++ premium-Korean-beef), the wok-station Korean-Chinese-fusion (the bibimbap-and-japchae and the Mapo-tofu-and-General-Tso-chicken), the sushi-station Korean-Japanese-spread (the live-from-Busan flounder-and-amberjack-sashimi), the seafood-station Korean-stew-spread (the haemul-jjigae spicy-seafood-stew, the kalguksu hand-cut-noodle-soup), and the K-pâtisserie dessert-spread. The lunch-buffet runs KRW 60,000-80,000 ($45-58); the dinner-buffet runs KRW 100,000-130,000 ($72-95) per cover.
The room is the Daejeon-corporate-and-family-celebration-dinner canvas. The 19th-floor panoramic-view, the floor-to-ceiling-windows-on-all-sides, the central live-cooking-station-array, the spaced-tables, and the senior-Korean-trained waitstaff make the LOTTE 19F the city's value-for-five-star-hotel-buffet answer. Capacity is around 250 across the main dining-hall and the two private-banquet-salons.
Reservations matter for the weekend evenings, the family-celebration-and-birthday peaks, and the corporate-dinner-and-team-dinner windows; three-to-five days ahead is enough. The restaurant accepts cards, the staff speak Korean-English-Japanese-Chinese, and the post-dinner LOTTE-Hotel-Daejeon-lobby coffee-or-Korean-traditional-tea-service is the conventional close.
Best Occasion Fit
For birthdays — the 19th-floor panoramic-view-from-the-buffet, the international-spread variety, and the value-for-five-star-hotel-buffet pricing make the LOTTE 19F the standard-issue Daejeon family-celebration-and-birthday-dinner answer; the kitchen will plate a celebration cake. For team dinners the private-banquet-salons handle groups of fifteen-to-thirty. As a first date the 19th-floor panoramic-view setting reads as the proper-Daejeon-effort.
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