The Sky Yard at The Drake Hotel
27 June 2005, lunch time
The Sky Yard is the name given to the Patio on top of the Drake Hotel. It’s a very nice patio, half covered, half open. There are plenty of large sofas and day beds for people to lounge around on while they eat and drink. I met Carvill, Dave and Martha there for drinks and lunch yesterday.
Carvill and I arrived early enough we could still order brunch — which we did. I had a club sandwich, Carvill had some French toast. The food arrived just as Dave and Martha did. I can safely say I was given the biggest club sandwich I have ever seen. The waiter told me he’d be impressed if I could finish it. I told him he wasn’t going to be impressed; I gave Dave half of the sandwich. Carvill’s French toast was quite yummy — the random fruit it was served with was excellent.
Our waiter was a gay man — least I assumed so from his name tag which said, “Fag”. He had an awesome beard/mustache thing going on. I wonder if he was disappointed he couldn’t go party it up at the Pride festival taking place yesterday. If he was upset, you wouldn’t know it; the service at the Drake was excellent.
Martha and Dave each had a beer. Carvill and I each had a coke, which was served in a giant glass, and was real coke. That, perhaps, was the best part of the patio experience.
Those random fruits were blueberries, a staple of French toast.
by Dave on June 27 2005, 12:54 pm #
I see—I don’t know much about fruits.
by ramanan on June 27 2005, 12:57 pm #
And here I am thinking that the menu might have said, “French toast with random fruit of the hour”.
by martha on June 27 2005, 2:18 pm #
WOW!!! A GLASS OF “REAL” COKE WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT! HOW UPTIGHT ARE YOU
AND ASSUMING THE WAITER WAS GAY….... YOU MUST LIVE A SHELTERED AND PATHETIC LIFE. THE SKYYARD ROCKS, THE PLACE ROCKS, THE EMPLOYEES ARE BY FAR THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY, AND “TYPES” LIKE YOU SHOULD BUY A 6 PACK OF CANNED COKE AND JUST STAY IN, LOOK IN THE MIRROR, AND JUDGE YOURSELVES
by LESLIE on August 4 2006, 12:25 pm #
YOU ARE SO RIGHT! OH MY GOD!!1!1!! CAPSLOCK!!1
:O :O :O I AM JUDGING MYSELF!!!1!!
by ramanan on August 4 2006, 1:13 pm #
Of all the things you’ve written about on this site, I never could have guessed that this post would have generated such a vehement response from a reader.
by rishi on August 4 2006, 1:17 pm #
I need to start tracking the best comments on this site. This one has to be my new favourite. (The person was searching for the 2006 Martini Boys review of the Drake as far as I can tell. I guess she didn’t find it and went totally mental.)
by ramanan on August 4 2006, 1:27 pm #
HOW DARE YOU DEFAME ME WEIGUO!!!11
by not ramanan on August 4 2006, 5:30 pm #