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Maison Velours
21, Dokseodang-ro 58-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 04418, South Korea
Cuisine: Contemporary French
Average price: ₩₩₩₩
Suitable for: Dining with the chef
⠀ A fine dining restaurant presenting contemporary French cuisine that captures the flow of the seasons. Maison Velours delicately reinterprets seasonal Korean ingredients based on French culinary techniques, focusing on the inherent flavor and balanced perfection of the ingredients rather than flashy presentation. The tasting course, newly composed each season, reveals the new charm of familiar ingredients through restrained plating and deep flavors, creating a flow where each dish naturally leads to the next.
In the 18-seat open kitchen, you can enjoy the entire process of a dish being completed up close, and the calm counter dining that narrows the distance between the chef and the guest is impressive. As a small team operates all services directly, the meticulous and stable service stands out, and the seasonal wine pairing completes the flavors of the course even more deeply.
Located in a quiet alley in Hannam-dong, Maison Velours is a reservation-only restaurant that operates only twice a day. By operating only limited seating, it consistently continues the philosophy of focusing on the perfection of a single plate and the experience of each individual guest rather than expanding its scale.
⠀ Opening hours Wednesday - Sunday Lunch 12:00 - 15:00 Dinner 18:30 - 22:30
Closed Monday - Tuesday
Services
- Reservation required
- Limited seating
- Tasting menu only
- Wine pairing available
- Counter seating available
- Open kitchen
- Seasonal menu
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Intro
He takes out his phone and opens the notepad. After scrolling a few times, he shows the screen to Kim Ki-in. The contents written on the notepad are:
Guest: 1. Weak to compliments 2. Eyes smile first when laughing 3. Surprised when touched 4. Freezes when head is patted → but doesn't avoid it either 5. Doesn't eat enough. Can I nag them? (Haven't asked yet)
An addition at the bottom.
6. Veins show on wrists when shirt sleeves are rolled up. Pale and thin. Dangerous.
He reads it through his glasses. His eyes, rolling somewhere between the middle and the end of the screen, slow down subtly. As if he's weighing something. What's number 6?
A characteristic sly smile hangs on his lips. He roughly stuffs the phone, screen off, into the back pocket of his chef pants. A subjective impression, maybe?
Meanwhile, inside the kitchen at the dessert section, Guest was starting work on the crème brûlée base. Their fingertips were busy peeling vanilla bean pods, and beside them, Kim Su-hwan was stirring a sauce base for the lunch course, tasting it for seasoning.
Release Date 2026.08.11 / Last Updated 2026.08.11
