Hard Rock Cafe

As I live all the way up north in sunny Sunderland I sadly don't have a Hard Rock Cafe anywhere near me, but like to go when I can if I'm in London or Edinburgh. This review is mainly based on the London Hyde Park one, the original Hard Rock Cafe in the world. This Hard Rock Cafe is located very near to Hyde Park Corner Tube station and so very easy to access. On arriving you see the imposing front of the building, complete with the Hard Rock motto of Love All, Serve All. Out the front is a seating area. When you get there just head up the red carpet, where you will find one of the massive team of staff waiting to seat you. I've been on a couple of ...  Read the complete review

One of the best things about the Hard Rock Cafe is that whereever you go the format and the menu are roughly the same, so you know what you are getting and roughly what the prices will be like. It is almost a home from home! I didnt try the Hard Rock cafe sooner as I was never really into Rock Music and I thought that was what it was all about. I was sort of right, it does feature quite heavily around rock music, but there is something for everyone and your experience certainly wont be ruined if you are not interested in rock music. Rock music plays relatively loudly in the restaurant itself, but if you look past that and just soak up the atmosphere (mostly ...  Read the complete review

Three years ago, we stayed in New York for around 5 months. During our time here, we came across various different restaurants and cafe's and sampled many culinary delights, ranging from crab to the usual cheeseburgers and chips. One restaurant we were planning on dining out in was the Hard Rock Cafe, however the night we had planned to go, on arriving we were sent away due to the fact we would have to weight 1 hour fifteen minutes to get a table. It was around 7pm at this time and with young children in to we decided to give up and we went off to the neareset pizza joint. Ever since the experience in New York, I have been determined to sample the food at the Hard ...  Read the complete review

My wife and I have lived in Edinburgh for about 1 yr, and have been meaning to go in to the Hard Rock cafe for ages. It was one of the first nice days of the year, and we had just been shopping for clothes for our 15 week old son. The entrance is great you feel like a star entering a movie premier or awards ceremony, they have a red carpet and a big solid doorway with brass menu displays on either side. When you walk in it is very much like an American style diner, with a big bar, and tables leading towards the open kitchen. On the far side there are some booths with smaller more intimate tables. We were greeted straight away and shown to a table, ...  Read the complete review

The first Hard Rock Café in the UK was opened in 1971, in London on Hyde Park Corner – I remember my first visit to this restaurant in 1980, when I didn’t have to queue to get it, though there were many subsequent occasions when I did have to queued up. Their motto is “Love all serve all”, which displays their American / peace and love roots. And it’s true, you do feel welcome. Now that I live ‘oop North’, I’m still lucky enough to have a handy Hard Rock Café, as one opened in Manchester in 2001. It’s in the Printworks development, along with the filmworks megaplex cinema, and it’s easy to spot ...  Read the complete review