Hotel Coverage: The Drake Hotel
The Drake Gets Royal Wedding Fever with Its Own Tea and Nuptials Screening
London hotels have been seeing wedding bells like crazy for the impending nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton, but it looks like royal wedding fever is coming stateside. The Drake in Chicago is joining the Kate and Wills craziness with its own fit-for-a-princess event London's Calling: The Royal...
March 24, 2011
Chicago's Drake Hotel Drops the Royal Red for Their Lobby Revamp
Chicago's Drake Hotel, a grand dame of the highest sort when it comes to hotels, has stood guard at the bend of LakeShore Drive since the early 1920s. Since then, the vintage aura of the hotel has been preserved even though room renovations, but it was about time for...
June 09, 2010
The Drake Goes Girly On Monday Nights
While the Drake Hotel's Palm Court is usually the setting for a refined afternoon tea, the space will transform into a venue for ladies' night on Mondays. During March, the Drake is offering Manicure & Martini Mondays so that you can get gussied up while you unwind at the...
March 04, 2010
Coq d'Or At Chicago's Drake Hotel Is An Upscale Dive Bar
While we spent the week in Chicago overdosing on hotels, we realized that is best to mix the new with the old, so we chased our visit to the restaurant and bar of The Wit with a nightcap at one of our favorite hotel bars: Coq D'Or at The...
July 31, 2009
Hotel High Tea Death Match: The Ritz-Carlton Greenhouse Trumps The Drake
[Ed. Note: Hotel Maven and High Tea enthusiast JetSetCD gives us her recommendation for Chi-town's finest tea hour. Enjoy.Indeed the master of the Chicago institution of Hotel High Tea is, surprisingly, not The Drake. Only a few blocks away and tucked just off Michigan Ave sits the Ritz Carlton (which...
March 20, 2008
The Drake Hotel Concierge Has Got 'Juice'
There's a big difference between a good and great concierge. John Dowd of Chicago's Drake Hotel fits into the great category. The Irish-born Dowd trained with the Queen of England's butler and on top of that, he's a trained Shakespearean actor. Dowd plays a higher role when it comes to...
September 08, 2006
Big Shoulders, Good Deals
Today's New York Post Travel section (yes, we realize we've been heavy on Post coverage today) has a round-up on old favorites in Chicago, a city that is underrated despite getting a lot of travel press. How that happens, we're not sure, but David Landsel, the Post's resident Chicago expert,...
April 11, 2006
A Little Vomit Goes A Long Way
The Drake Hotel suffered some bad press recently, when 150 people became ill after eating at the hotel's restaurant. Now one of them is suing. The woman, whose name was not disclosed (maybe she doesn't want it associated with vomit and diarrhea?) is charging Hilton Hotels, Drake's parent company,...
February 22, 2006
Fundraiser at Drake Hotel Makes 100+ Sick
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that more than 100 people who dined at the Drake Hotel in Chicago over the weekend have become sick with a stomach-like flu and authorities believe it may be another case of the Norwalk Virus, which affected nearly 1,000 people on a cruise ship in...
February 08, 2006
Best U.S. Hotels for Thanksgiving Dinner
A T&L reader asked the mag what U.S. hotel the family should feast at on Thanksgiving. T&L's answer with our commentary in []: · Ritz-Carlton New York Chef Alain Allegretti dishes up roasted scallops with celeriac in rémoulade followed by organic turkey stuffed with country bread and foie gras [If...
October 18, 2005
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