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The Drake Hotel is a hospitality venue on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near Parkdale. In addition to a nineteen-room boutique hotel, there is a restaurant lounge, corner café with street-level patio, Sky Yard roof top patio, and the Drake Underground basement nightclub and live performance venue.
The venue was opened in 1890 as Small's Hotel. At the time, the area was a major Canadian Pacific Railway hub near what was then one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the city.
In 1949, the hotel was acquired by new owners who expanded the building and renamed it the Drake. The hotel eventually fell into decline.
In October 2001, the hotel was purchased by Jeff Stober, who planned a Toronto equivalent of the Hotel Chelsea where creative individuals would work and live. After renovations were completed, the Drake re-opened in February 2004.