Hard Rock Cafe Berlin in Berlin, Berlin, Germany | A la Carte Restaurants

Welcome to Hard Rock Cafe Berlin,in Berlin, Germany, one of Europe's best places to party.   Berlin is the only European city lacking official closing hours, so drink up and enjoy through to the wee small hours of the morning. There's no fear of last call in Berlin, a city that comes to life when others are calling it a night. The Hard Rock Cafe Berlin celebrates this attitude at our Western Berlin location in the exuberant Ku'damm, amidst beer halls, coffee houses, theatres, the opera, and every other kind of entertainment you can imagine. The Hard Rock Cafe Berlin sets the pace with great food and a veritable wall of Rock 'n' Roll memorabilia.

A bit of history about Hard Rock Cafe Berlin.   It started with an Eric Clapton guitar (a Fender Lead II, for the gearheads in the audience). The beginning of something that nobody even knew was beginning.

It was just a goof. A laugh. A joke among friends.

Eric Clapton got to be friends with the proprietors of Hard Rock Cafe in London and asked them to save him a regular table, put up a brass plaque or something. And the young proprietors said, “Why don't we put up your guitar?” They all had a chuckle, and he handed over a guitar, and they slapped it on the wall.

No one thought much more about it. Until a week later, when another guitar arrived (a Gibson Les Paul, by the way). With it was a note from Pete Townshend of The Who which read: "Mine's as good as his. Love, Pete."

The young proprietors put it on the wall. After that, the guitars never stopped coming. Today there are more than 70,000 guitars, drums, pianos, harmonicas, microphones, shirts, pants, scarves, shoes, handwritten lyrics, cars, bikes, a bus and assorted rock memorabilia, by far, the largest, most valuable such collection in the world on the walls of over 138 Hard Rock Cafes, Hotels and Casinos in 42 countries around the world.  But it all started with the one.