Hard Rock Café Meal Voucher, Prague

It takes some doing but the Hard Rock Cafe Prague is a contender for the title of both the most attractive building in the Czech capital and the most beautiful Hard Rock Cafe in the world. Enjoy delicious American fare in the Renaissance-style V.J. Rott House while admiring a dazzling rock memorabilia collection that includes a black faux fur vest worn by Jimi Hendrix, a signed keyboard used by Depeche Mode and a tuxedo tail coat, top hat and cane worn by Madonna during her 1985 Virgin Tour, among other items.

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 in the English capital. 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 thus 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)!