"The Hard Rock cafe"

The Hard Rock Cafe is the name of a very famous chain of restaurants. There are Hard Rock Cafes in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo. Rome and a lot of other big cities in the world. In total, there are 143 Hard Rock Cafes in 42 different countries!

The food at the Hard Rock Cafe is usually very good. Some of it is fast food, for example, burgers and chips, but there are a lot of other things on the

menu. You can eat healthy food such as chicken, salmon and salads, too.

But people don't usually go to a Hard Rock Cafe for the food. They go for the music! There’s always rock music and you can often listen to local rock

bands and singers. A lot of Hard Rock Cafes are also rock museums. The Hard Rock Cafe in New York, for

example, has got some of Elvis Presley's clothes and it has also got Some personal possessions from

The Beatles, Nirvana, Madonna and Gwen Stefani on its walls.

The original Hard Rock Cafe opened in London in 1971. The owners were two young American men. At first, it was just a trendy restaurant where a few musicians ate. One day, the famous British guitarist, s. Eric Clapton, gave the owners his guitar. They put it on the wall. The next week the guitarist, Pete Townshend, sent his guitar and the owners put that on the wall, too. People started to talk about the ¢ restaurant and famous musicians began to send their possessions. Today the Hard Rock Cafes around the world have got 70,000 guitars and a lot of other interesting rock memorabilia!

Hard Rock Cafes usually have a shop and tourists often buy Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts. Each t-shirt has got the name of the city where the restaurant is. Some people travel to Hard Rock Cafes all over the world and buy a t-shirt in every restaurant!