Nobody loves a night out like us, so when it came to getting the scoop on how to make it a good time, all the time, we asked the people who know best–our own team! We asked Drake team members to spill about everything from their best hangover cures to favourite dancefloor tracks and wildest … Continued
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My Night in Nine is a series where we ask some of our friends, collaborators and all-around creatives to show us what a night at The Drake looks like for them in nine photos. Pop-culture wunderkind Chieff Bosompra is seemingly everywhere at once. As the mastermind behind successful marketing agency Undisposable, and owner of Toronto … Continued
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This year’s upcoming Drake Hotel x Nuit Blanche installation will explore our fascination with observing others. In “The Fourth Wall”, an interactive video projection by multimedia artist Malik McKoy, an other-worldly creature awaits our gaze from inside an unearthly room. This being engages with its audience, causing onlookers to question whether it can feel their presence. … Continued
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After tearing the house down and making their long-awaited return to The Drake Hotel, we caught up with Toronto band The 99s. Known for taking audiences on a nostalgia trip into the freshest decade of pop, rock + R&B favourites, we got to know this eclectic group of musicians a little better in our new … Continued
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Everyone’s invited to this summer’s road trip to Drake Motor Inn, including your four-legged family members. Designed for the ultimutt PEC getaway, the Best Friends Welcome package includes gourmet doggy treats and a 45-minute pet retreat at The Sniffery, an immersive sensory experience to stimulate your dog’s natural instincts. Pups love em-bark-ing on summers stays … Continued
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Bold and whimsical and displayed atop the Glass Box, Slovak-Canadian artist Nicole Beno’s Suspended Flora is the latest show-stopping piece of art at Drake Devonshire. Composed of inflatable mushroom shapes and printed with eye-catching, fantastical patterns, the art piece began as an ongoing study during the pandemic when the artist was using what she had on … Continued
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Daniel Griffin Hunt and Emma Welch have a lot on their plates—they’re two of the co-founders of the artist-run project space the plumb, they make their own art, and they just co-curated a Drake Devonshire Living Room show, titled what holds what when your mind’s eye is a stone’s throw away from being blind?, which … Continued
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If you’re not a booze drinker, Drake bartender Gord Hannah’s pretty, tasty temperance cocktail belongs in your (b)arsenal. Says Gord: “The High Tea blends fresh citrus and sencha kombucha tea with a Canadian-made non-alcoholic gin bursting with juniper notes. The Barbet Light Wave brings all the flavours together and adds notes of lavender, pineapple and … Continued
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When it comes to food waste, less is more, which is why we’ve partnered with Too Good To Go, an app that saves end-of-day leftovers from getting thrown away. The app connects communities with restaurants like The Drake Hotel and in our case, that means we get to make sure none of our freshly baked goods go … Continued
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Just like the weather, travel season’s warming up and this spring, we’re savouring every second of it. Now through May 31, you can book one-night stays in The County, Monday to Wednesday (head here to book now). Whether you’re yearning for a quick escape or stopping over on the way to your next big adventure, … Continued
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