"WHO ROCKS THE PARTY!"- CHICAGO ROCK CAFE'

Advantages: its a colourful restaurant by day, funky club by night!
Disadvantages: you can't guarantee the drinks offers are on!

...CHICAGO ROCK CAFÉ - SWANSEA There's a little club in the town near me and I won't go anywhere else! A lot of people will disagree with my opinion, but to me this venue offers so much. I have been going to this club regularly since it first opened 5 years ago. I have eaten food there, seen many great tribute bands on stage, watched live sporting events, sat quietly with a group of friends and watched soaps on the big screen, and most importantly, I've danced the night away many times. #A BRIEF HISTORY Chicago Rock Café came to Swansea just at the end of the year 2000. It is a venue that opens early during the day time and serves food while a jukebox plays quietly or a film is shown on the screen. Not only is it a good quality themed restaurant, but you can continue your day out into the night with a live band or disco DJ...

fabfrog5 21.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Chicago Rock Cafe' - Swansea

Chicago Rock Cafe Watford

Advantages: Good Food
Disadvantages: Questionable Service

...Chicago Rock Cafe 135 The Parade High Street (01923) 224420 The Chicago rock café is a chain of Bars / Restaurants, which seem to be appearing all over the country in newly developing areas. The Watford branch is situated within the centre of the town, close to the majority of the other nightspots and drinking venues. This particular Chicago rock café building has a relatively old look to it compared to others I have visited, but the adequate inertia refurbishment gives the place a nice image and setting to have a great time. The floor spacing is adequate to hold a fair few people to dance, so if you feel in a drunken state and fancy making a fool of yourself this is the place to come! The rock café occasionally has special themed nights, such as 70's nights, which gives you the opportunity to listen to those funky John...

Christoph666 05.11.2001 · Read review
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Review of Chicago Rock Cafe (London)

Shitcago Rock Cafe

Advantages: Good Student Workforce
Disadvantages: Bad Pay, Working conditions

...Luminar plc who owns a number of clubs and bars including Chicago Rock Cafe, Jumping Jack's and the Hippodrome IO consider to be one of the worst companies in the UK. Basically I used to work for Chicago Rock Cafe in Norwich. Now this is not a hate campaign against the company because it does provide good entertainment but as I found out ou t the way they treat their employees is very poor. Most of the staff who work at the chains are students doing part-time work to pay for their studies. This would not be a bad thing however the employees have not had the slightest bit of training and so have a very limited purpose. Serve and make money for the company! When I joined Chicago Rock Cafe my starting wage was £3.75 per hour. Pretty poor as you can imagine with no overtime pay whats so ever. I started as a glass collector whith...

scott_whaley 18.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Chicago Rock Cafe (London)

The Cafe that rocks!

Advantages: Quick service, wide variety of foods, family friendly, delicious meals.
Disadvantages: Expensive, quite noisy

...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 Rock Cafe. I was totally oblivious to the fact there was one situated in Edinburgh, a fourty five minute drive or a 30 minute train ride from my house. So a couple...

SweetTooth93 02.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hard Rock Cafe Edinburgh

good service, good food, good experience at Hard Rock Cafe!

Advantages: Pretty much averything about the place!
Disadvantages: None!

...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 occasions to the London Hard rock Cafe, and how long you have to wait for a table largely depends when you go. On our most recent visit we were shown straight to a table as it was mid...

laukez88 16.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hard Rock Cafe London

Hard Rocking cafe in LONDON: ACCESS made EASY!!!

Advantages: Hard Rock, Great Food & Drink, Video's: Discount if you know how.
Disadvantages: Can be very busy (But JUMP the QUEUE)

...Location: The cafe (restaurant) is just off of Hyde Park Corner. Nearest tube is Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly Line - 8 min walk) or Green Park (Picadilly line, Victoria Line & Jubilee line - 8 min walk). Parking for cars is difficult during the day (and is within the Congestion Zone) but better in the evening. Buses (many routes) stop close by. Is it for me you ask?: If you like peace and quiet with very quick efficient top class service, then DONT GO. If you like Rock music (light and heavy) with it playing so you can hear it, watching rock stars play on the tv screens, you're onto a winner, because thats what you get. Reasonably child friendly as well (just dont head bang too much). Food & Drink: Burgers, chips (ok. fries then), big portioned deserts, beers, wines & cocktails. The usual selection of things. If your...

martinwi 10.02.2008 · Read review
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Rock 'n' roll at the Hard Rock Cafe Manchester

Advantages: Great location and a fun night out
Disadvantages: Long queues at weekends

...When I was younger and on holiday a really big treat for me was if you happened to stumble across a Hard Rock cafe whilst away. For me Hard Rock cafes were always slightly magical and mysterious places that I intrinsically linked with being on holiday. For me, it always had to be a burger, chocolate milkshake and an ever collectible Hard Rock cafe jumper, tee shirt, cap or whatever else caught my eye and spending money would allow! Where is it? Living near to Manchester I was excited when I heard that a new Hard Rock Cafe was to open. It is situated in the city centre as part of the new Printworks development. The Printworks features a range of leisure activities including bars, restaurants, shops and cinemas and is great for an evening out. The Hard Rock Cafe has a prime location on one side of the Printworks and is...

nickjj78 25.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Hard Rock Cafe - Manchester

A TALE OF A CHAR GRILLED CHICKEN AND SOME WINGS

Advantages: Great atmosphere, good food/music/service
Disadvantages: Drinks are pricey

...It was Saturday night, i had a couple of friends visiting from out of town. I had a choice of either nuking another set of nutritious, vitaminous microwave dinners or going out and enjoying the Saturday night-life of LINCOLN - THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (THAT IS MEANT TO BE SARCASTIC BY THE WAY). Having heard a lot of good things about Chicago Rock Cafe from colleagues at work, i thought i'd stick my neck out and suggest having our dinner (and a drink or two or more) there. We got there around 8.30pm. There were a few people scattered around the tables. We were greeted by a waiter and asked for a table for three people. Drinks were ordered, mine was non-alcoholic as i was driving (DAMN!!), and we went to our table. The place is a combination of a typical bar, cafe, restaurant, and even has a small dancing floor for all...

kleft 23.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of chicago rock cafe (lincoln)

Dance here, but do not eat here.

Advantages: None for eating there.Good place to "bop" though.
Disadvantages: Slow service, awful food.

...Ok you know by now that I have a thing about good service, as one or two of my previous ops have shown. Hold tight! I am now about to redress the balance by telling you all about some appalling service I received last year. It was my leaving do from my previous job and I so wanted it to be the leaving do to end all leaving dos’ it was, but for the opposite reasons I had hoped for! As a group we had often visited our local Chicago Rock Café for the odd evening out (and some of them were very odd believe me!!) so I thought that it would be nice to go there for my party. We had such a good time when we were there to dance and I naturally assumed that we would have an excellent meal there as well….WRONG!! On telephoning the restaurant 6 weeks before we wanted to go we were told that the extensive menu was “wonderful...

kazziebears 30.04.2001 (29.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of Chicago Rock Cafe (London)

Chicago, My Kind of Town from A to Z

Advantages: The contrasting architecture. Music. Relaxing Parks.
Disadvantages: Parking fees. Rush Hour.

...to see them all!!! Of course you can relax in the park afterwards - very peaceful. ~~H is for House of Blues~~ The other major reason for Chicago was music. Our theme for the road trip - music. The House of Blues is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 Dan Ackroyd and Isaac Tigrett (Hard Rock Cafe founder). Dan Ackroyd is famous of course for The Blues Brothers filmed in Chicago. The House of Blues hosts a number of live concerts mostly blues (surprise, surprise). Our reason to visit - the famous Gospel Brunch (£45.50 adults, $22 Children)! The brunch is an amazing buffet with a carvery, salads, fruits, southern specialities and muffins (to name but a selection of goods on offer). All this whilst you are coaxed to your feet with the foot tapping, hand clapping Gospel band performing on stage...

MAFARRIMOND 10.06.2008 · Read review
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