111688 Wed Oct 30 09:01:36 -0800 2002 1 7 Chicago Area 0 605267 i am invited to have dinner at the international club at the drake hotel, i hear its a private restaurant. any comments would really help. thanks Wed Oct 30 09:01:36 -0800 2002 0 kc 1 605274 The International is indeed a private eating club, with a not-very-easy to find entrance on the second level of the hotel. It is old world, old school in the extreme. A career waitstaff, guest menus without prices, and food such as dover sole, assorted steaks and chops, bread baskets, butter florets and relish trays. Very good food, for what it is. The kind of place where you'd start with a shrimp cocktail. Inordinately large cocktails such as you would expect at a private club. Everybody knows everybody--some nods across the room, some table hopping. Jackets and ties required for gents (except Sunday evenings, when shirt and tie can be substituted for, of all things, a turtleneck). Unashamedly stuck in the 50s. Enjoy your evening. Let us know what you thought. Wed Oct 30 11:38:31 -0800 2002 605267 0 Old School