Drusilla's is an Italian restaurant in Grand Theft Auto IV, Episodes from Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars in Little Italy, Algonquin, Liberty City. It is located on Denver Avenue, adjacent to Hsin Jaoming's apartment.
Description[]
The restaurant is a main front for the Pegorino crime family. Ray Boccino summoned protagonists and hired muscle Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz at the restaurant to send them on missions. The restaurant is featured in the website www.peepthatshit.com as well as in the Grand Theft Auto IV manual.
Judging from the cutscenes, the restaurant offers pizza, coffee and other basic Italian food. The restaurant is inaccesible to the player. If the player manages to get inside, however, the interior will be empty except for a table. The only known workers of the restaurant are an unnamed maitre'd, an unnamed waiter and Ray Boccino himself. Drusilla's also features a basement seen in the The Lost and Damned mission Was It Worth It?, where Johnny and Jim are held hostage, but then escape.
Influence[]
Drusilla's appeares to be based on the Italian restaurants Puglia[1] and Lombardi's Pizza[2] in Manhattan. In addition to their shared location (the Little Italy neighborhood), the front architecture (red building with tables and chairs outside) of both restaurants is similar.
Transportation[]
The closest subway stations to Drusilla's are Suffolk and City Hall, served by the C/K Inner Algonquin Line.
Prominent Appearances in Missions[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
The Lost and Damned[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The radio station playing inside the restaurant in Grand Theft Auto IV is Jazz Nation Radio 108.5. In Episodes from Liberty City, this is changed to Self-Actualization FM.
- The restaurant's name likely comes from the Roman imperial family member Julia Drusilla, who is infamous for her incestuous relationship with her brother, the Roman emperor Caligula (who is referenced in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with "Caligula's Palace").
- In the beta version, the interior was visible from the outside instead of showing a low LOD interior. The beta version can be seen in the paintings hanging in the restaurant.
- Coincidentally, there's a real-life restaurant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana called Drusilla's.