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    Hard Rock Cafe - Rockford

    3.4 (15 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Manish C.

    The Hard Rock Cafe Rockford is located in the newly open Hard Rock Casino east of downtown Rockford. While Hard Rock usually opens up in more touristy areas, the city of Rockford has some nice parks, gardens, and museums, and has an interesting history as the birthplace of sock monkeys and is the former home to the Rockford Peaches of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (made a bit more famous in the film A League of Their Own). The Hard Rock bottle opener and city tee shirt they sell here do justice to the city depicting some of these into it's design. While I didn't get a chance to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe, I got to take in the festivities of opening weekend a bit as it was lively, with a band playing live music. The design mirrors that of their other US casino locations, but all the staff I encountered were really friendly. The Rock Shop is a few steps away from the restaurant, as it's a combination shop with the casino. They had the bottle opener and shot glass in stock, so I was a happy camper to add these to my collection. While I'm not the biggest fan of casinos, this one is designed really well, so recommend a visit to this location should your travels lead you to Rockford, Illinois.

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    1 year ago

    Food was mediocre at best and was priced too high. Good atmosphere and customer service

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    10 months ago

    Candie at the cafe was wonderful! She was attentive, sweet, and always so very nice! Can't wait to go back and see her again!

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    1 year ago

    Ordered nacho appetizer, the chips were basically crushed so we had to ask for forks to eat it. Wont be ordering that again

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    2 years ago

    I had the carne asada tacos and the soup and it was delicious! Tasted like the authentic street tacos I had when I lived in California.

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    Me and my wife tried this place today for dinner cause we knew they had a barbecue pit on Fridays,…read moreand Saturdays. My congratulations to Will one of the Pitmasters. The food was awesome. I had the pulled pork sandwich and my wife had half a slab of ribs. We have eaten barbecue in Tennessee and in Kansas City. And I have to say the pulled pork sandwich was the best out of all the places we had eaten in Tennessee and Kansas City The ribs were really good too. they were in between so they were not fall off the bone and they were not tough. They were right in the middle and it had a dry rub of pepper and some other spices, but it was really good. We tend to like the dry rubs better anyway because I find that I'm very picky about my barbecue sauces. Will said that they were going to be there all summer on Friday and Saturdays. I will definitely be back to try some of that sliced brisket and have some more pulled pork. If you're in the area, I would definitely stop by if you like barbecue. It is definitely worth the trip. Also, the prices are not bad. This place had a nice neighborhood bar atmosphere. There were places to eat inside and out. Also, the waitresses were really nice and friendly. Great job guys! Tell Will, Mike sent you.

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    Food was very good. My buddies loved the turkey sandwiches, turkey, sliced, very thin and piled…read morehigh! I had a BLT, which is not on the dinner menu, but BRAD had them make one for me anyway. And by the way, BRAD provided awesome service! Fried bacon appetizer is an absolute must!! comes with chocolate sauce! Everybody loved the sidewinder fries!!! Nice family restaurant atmosphere, wasn't too loud, we could all hear each other speak.

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    This place has been around forever, and for good reason! They have a great, casual, fun atmosphere…read morewith lots of sports playing all around. The place is slightly split into two parts: one side for dining and another for the bar. They have a million beers on tap, and also have wine and a full bar. Servers are friendly and helpful! The menu is pretty simple, all American food. So if you're not into that you might want to look elsewhere. But the stuff they offer they do really well. The fish and chips are great and the nacho portions are huge. They also do burgers well too. We got the kids spaghetti and meatballs for our son and it was good but the meatballs were spicy which seemed like a weird choice. The warm cookie topped with cold ice cream is the perfect dessert choice to end the night!

    normally i receive great service and a friendly smile but i came here last weekend and it was such…read morean unpleasant experience. i understand it was busy but the bartender with the dark hair was so rude. she was hardly paying attention to us and when we placed our order she didn't care to pay attention there either! we had modifications to one of the items i get this every single time with ZERO issues but when the food came out, it came out how it's normally prepared she didn't pay attention while we ordered and when we told her politely that this is not what we ordered she made it seem ike it was our fault.. we had already been waiting for 50 minutes and she told us that the remake was going to take a long time and that the kitchen was too busy almost as if she wanted to see if we'd just keep the item, NO! i want what i ordered, i proceeded to wait 30 extra minutes for my plate while the person i was with already finished their food. really disappointing experience, this restaurant is a place i go to for a "pick me up" and i ended up feeling worse than when i came in.

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