I'm obviously too cool for this place because the last time it was interesting was before the renovation. Yes this puts me in the minority because if you didn't know any better, the Drake looks like a cool place. The people are pretty and well dressed. There's a door man constantly letting people in from a second line you're not "cool" enough to know about and the drinks are just expensive enough for the same things they serve everywhere else that you'll wonder if you're just paying the "f-you" tax on top of the standard import pricing.
I get suckered into coming here about once a year by friends from out of town. They've heard it's great or have been before and love the atmosphere. In either case I generally spend all my time people watching and wondering why anyone would like this place.
On my last trip here the cream of the intellectual crop were hypothesizing that their friend was so great at vomiting because he does it all the time. That was shortly topped by a 5'0" tall man suffering from a little big man complex making a big show of tipping the door man for letting him in...because he was at the front of the line anyway.
If you're looking for a place where you'll hear the words "bro", "guy", "sick" and "dude" all in the same sentence but you're to shy (or old) to hang out in a high school parking lot then this is your place. You can stump the crowd with your cunning ability to use acronyms like dtf because we haven't all known what that meant since grade school.
If you were to remove all the obnoxious people the room would be empty and you'd just have an ok bar at that point. Bar service is alright but nothing spectacular. Drink selection is pretty standard and the food is okay.
Mark this down in the "Tell us what you really think." category.