Ristorante il Leone at The Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa will host Summer Italian Festa 2009 from July 26 to 28.
Fabrizio Innocenti, executive chef of the five-star Grand Hotel in Florence, Italy, will be coming to Tokyo to present Tuscan dishes using fresh seafood and seasonal ingredients.
There’s a four-dish lunch course (¥5,000, 11:30 a.m.- 3 p.m.) and a five-dish dinner course (¥10,000, 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m.). A wine set (two glasses of white or red wine) is available for ¥2,000.
The Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa is a five-minute walk from the Takanawa Exit of Shinagawa Station. For more information, call (03) 3442-1111.
Royal Park conjures up magic
The Royal Park Hotel in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, will hold a magic show with some sleight-of-hand tips and a dinner buffet for children and parents from Aug. 6 to 8.
The show will feature award-wining magician Shurei, who will let you in on a few of his secrets and teach you a trick or two at the third-floor Crown Room banquet facility. After the show and lessons, guests can enjoy a dinner buffet at the first-floor Symphony coffee shop.
The magic show and lessons start at 4 p.m. (reception from 3:30 p.m.), and finish at 5:30 p.m. The dinner buffet is from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The event is ¥6,000 for adults and ¥4,000 for children aged between 4 and 12.
The Royal Park Hotel is a five-minute walk from Ningyo-cho Station on the Asakusa Line; there’s also a direct link between the hotel and Suitengu-mae Station on the Hanzomon Line. For more information, call (03) 3667-1111.
A beer, or two, with a view
Sky Beer Hall 32 has opened on the 32nd floor of the Hotel Nikko Osaka in the city’s Shinsaibashi district.
The popular summer attraction uses the top-floor Jet Stream banquet room as a beer hall on weekdays.
For ¥5,500, you can enjoy unlimited drinks for 100 minutes, a set dinner, live music and breathtaking night views of Osaka from 100 meters above the ground.
The set dinner includes assorted hot and cold food, a selection of five main dishes, salad and bread bar, and coffee.
Drinks include draft beer, whiskey, shochu, sake, wine, chuhai, plum wine, cocktails and soft drinks.
There are also a la carte selections, such as teppanyaki (from ¥1,800) and desserts (from ¥500).
The beer hall is open on weekdays through Sept. 4, and Aug. 1, 15 and 16, between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. It is closed Saturdays, Sundays and July 31, Aug. 3, 6 and 7.
The hotel is adjacent to Exit 8 of Shinsaibashi Station. For more information or reservations, call (06) 6244-0003 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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