I guess I just don't understand the burger scene in Lisbon, but I've been to a few burger joints there. Except for the Hard Rock Cafe which tops my list as the best, this one is pretty much the other best one I've eaten at, but by no means should this place be compared with the Hard Rock Cafe. Here are a few words about the oddities about the place. I ordered a Rock Burger. It comes with a small but sufficiently thick hand formed beef patty (nice) that was cooked perfectly to medium rare (nice). if you want it a little more well done you'll have to ask for it. There are 3 choices of side dishes for their burgers, and you can pick any two. Fried potatoes (very nice), rice, or..... saute'd spinach. Saute'd spinach and rice??? With your burger? Again, maybe I just don't understand the Portuguese palate or to whom the owners are trying to play to, but if it were up to me, all I would need are french fries and a small side salad with some thousand island dressing. The Rock Burger comes with Queijo Derretido, which they translate as cheddar cheese, which if you're having a burger is a great choice, but Queijo Derretido is not cheddar cheese, the translation is melted cheese... it's an orange nacho cheese sauce, which is the correct term for recipes that include Queijo Derretido, so the translation gets a bit lost in the shuffle. As they had the translation for cheddar cheese on the menu below the Portuguese, I was expecting a slice of sharp cheddar cheese. The Rock Burger is also served with crispy bacon, which as bacon goes in Portugal, is pretty good, lettuce and tomato. For Americans that revere their bacon as the Portuguese revere their sardines, bacon pretty much sucks all over Portugal, as an American I've looked even in grocery stores, and they just don't understand bacon in Portugal, but at this place it's pretty darned good on the Rock Burger. I ordered an American Chocolate Milk Shake, and I was extremely disappointed. What I was served was a glass of cool foamy shaken chocolate milk topped with whipped cream and a cherry. The glass had ribbons of chocolate sauce distributed on the inside. It wasn't anywhere near what a milkshake should be. It appears that the owners figured out that all they needed to do was flavor milk and shake it and dress it up in a glass. It sucked and wasn't anything like what I was expecting, nor was it worth the price of E3.90. Even the pictures on their website are misleading for the milkshake. Absolutely nothing like the picture I assure you from my experience. Also misleading on the website is a picture of a waitress with an order of onion rings on her tray. The onion rings are not to be found anywhere on the menu. Inside you will find iconic images from a Route 66 sign to a couch fashioned from the back end of a 1950 era automobile, and some life sized sculptures of popular individuals from that era. My favorite was their Marilyn Monroe, her skirt was real and had a fan blowing around, but what you will also find is a motorcycle that should be a Harley, but isn't, and a Classic Wurlitzer Juke Box knock off that does not work. Also, in terms of atmosphere, inside there are off era music video's playing on a big screen and outside there was some funky spanish gypsy music thing going on, so that certainly didn't fit the theme. Also, inside they have a smoking area which has a sign on it telling their customers that they have a smoking area, but wish they didn't need to have a smoking area. So the long and the short of it is that in general anyplace I have eaten in Lisbon that tries to mimic iconic Americana falls flat on its face. American Music Burger is no exception, except that it may be the best of the worst burger joints in Lisbon that I have tried so far. Also, there is an issue with Yelp when it comes to this place, believe me, this isn't a traditional American restaurant at all as described on Yelp. To top it all off, I tried to pay with my Visa card, which they generally accept, but I couldn't pay with my Visa card because the waiter said they had been having trouble with Visa lately. Now I'm not sure if they were having "trouble with Visa" or they were having technical issues with their transactions, but I ended up paying cash. There are plenty of things about American Music Burger that I didn't mind, but more things that I found bad than good. Save your money and go to the Hard Rock Cafe, or better yet, visit the many other restaurants that are participating in a resurgent artisanal burger scene. read more