In the Press
Thrillist
3.11.10
It’s rare for anticipation to pay off, unless you’re Carly Simon, and totally pwning Cat Stevens. For a club that actually lives up to its anticipation, check out Drai’s. Read more…
Urban Daddy
3.08.10
Duck into the corridor next to the Hollywood and Vine subway stop, find the covert elevator with just two buttons—1 and 12—and you’ll see it too.
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The Eater
3.04.10
The top two floors of the shiny new W Hotel in Hollywood have become Vegasized thanks to imports Victor Drai and brothers Cy and Jessie Waits (the team behind Steve Wynn’s Tryst and XS). First off, the space is HUGE with amazing glassed-in rooftop views of LA. Basically, Drai’s is divided into three parts: pool/bar, restaurant, and club.
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LA Times
3.19.10
“If this place is so hard to get into, then what’s he doing here?” asked 28-year-old Alex Van de Camp, gesturing to an overweight man standing just behind him on the front patio of Drai’s, the white-hot new nightclub on the rooftop of the W Hollywood Hotel.
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LA Times Magazine
February 2010
Victor Drai is no stranger to L.A.—or the club scene. For six years beginning in 1993, Drai’s eponymous restaurant on La Cienega served up such specialties as spicy tuna on crispy rice, french fries, carrot soup, tuna salad and Chilean sea bass. In 1997, he took his nightlife vision to Las Vegas, opening Drai’s on the Strip.
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Hotel Chatter
3.19.10
The W Hollywood has opened its guestrooms and its Delphine restaurant but the most anticipated piece of the hotel, Drai’s Hollywood, a rooftop nightclub and restaurant, has been kept under wraps for over a month.
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