Skip the Line: Hard Rock Café Manchester

Manchester has twice grabbed the music world by the scruff of the neck and shaken it up like never before. It’s a city steeped in rock ‘n’roll and nowhere wears this badge of pride better than the Hard Rock Cafe at the Printworks. This is the city that blasted a new dawn with punk in the Seventies and another with Madchester in the Eighties.

The Hard Rock Cafe Manchester has memorabilia from The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis and Elvis Presley along with more contemporary items including stage costumes worn by Natasha Bedingfield and Arctic Monkeys.

Like all great revolutions, the Hard Rock Cafe wasn’t meant to succeed. It was 1971 and as the Swinging Sixties had given way to the Super Seventies, fashions and tastes were changing. Two hungry young Americans were in London and couldn’t find a decent place to eat a decent burger… so they opened up a joint. Their landlord didn’t think it would last and gave them just a six-month lease. Four decades later, there almost 200 Hard Rock Cafes in more than 50 countries worldwide.

The first T-shirt hit the streets in ‘74 and the first piece of memorabilia came, fittingly, by chance in ‘79 when Eric Clapton asked to hang his Lead II Fender guitar over his favourite bar stool and mark as his spot. Today, the rock 'n' roll collection has more than 74,000 pieces and is the largest of its kind. By 1982, the Hard Rock Cafe had gone global and the rest, as they say, is history (that’s still being written)!

Vinyl Menu:
Choice of one of Hard Rock burger or Hard Rock cheeseburger, or veggie burger or Caesar salad
Choice of coffee, tea or soft drink

Gold Menu:
Choice of one of Hard Rock burger or Hard Rock cheeseburger, or veggie burger or honey mustard grilled chicken sandwich, or hickory Bar-B-Que chicken or chicken Caesar salad
Hard Rock Cafe signature ice cream
Choice of coffee, tea or soft drink

Diamond Menu:
Lil Caesar or side house salad
Choice of twisted mac & cheese or full rack of Bar-B-Que ribs, or Hard Rock cheeseburger or bacon cheeseburger, or hickory Bar-B-Que chicken or veggie leggie, or classic chicken Caesar salad or legendary burger
Hot fudge sundae
Choice of coffee, tea or soft drink

Platinum Menu:
Three tupelos or side house salad
Choice of legendary burger or veggie burger, or Hard Rock cheeseburger or bacon cheeseburger, or Greek salad with shrimp or full rack of Bar Bar-B-Que ribs
Grilled wild Alaskan sockeye salmon or New Yorks strip steak, or hickory Bar-B-Que Chicken or twisted mac and cheese
Chocolate cake or mini-desserts
Choice of coffee, tea or soft drink

Meeting/pick-up point: Exchange Square.
Start/opening time: Midday.
End/closing time: Midnight and 2am for the bar on Friday and Saturday.

Exchange Square

Meal

Diamond Menu