The Hard Rock Café Global Price Index
How far will your money go when travelling? That’s where the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index can help.
The Hard Rock Café Global Price Index displays the cost of an ‘Original Legendary Burger’ and a large draught beer in the local currency. We’ve also included a converter in each section so you can translate the cost into your currency of choice.
How the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index works
Using an item that is standard across the world, you can easily understand how far your travel budget will stretch. Traditionally, the McDonalds Big Mac has been used as the yardstick for these comparisons. As people who never eat at McDonalds, the Big Mac simply doesn’t work.
So instead, we introduce the Hard Rock Café Price Index. Almost as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches, Hard Rock Café franchises can now be found in almost every corner of the globe. And because the menu is (almost) identical at every outlet, it’s a useful tool for comparing living costs. Where possible, we have tried to include local taxes too.
You may see some gaps in our analysis. Not every Hard Rock Café posts their menus online. Others do not include specific pricing. We will continue to try and track down the missing information and welcome help from anyone who has visited an HRC venue recently.
It’s also worth noting that you will almost certainly be charged some kind of service fee on top of the prices listed here. Expect to pay a minimum of 10% in ‘tips’.
Europe
Europe can lay claim to the world’s first Hard Rock Café (London) and the most expensive (Reykjavik). Even without a beer, Macedonia is likely the cheapest on the continent.
And special shout out to the Polish restaurants who have set a standard price – PLN 82.90 – across all four venues in the country.
United Kingdom
London – £25.40
The original Hard Rock Café has a ‘vault’ with additional musical memorabilia. This restaurant is still worth a visit, even if you don’t stop for food.
Piccadilly Circus (London) – £25.70
Located right in the heart of Piccadilly Circus. We’ve never gone further than the gift shop on the ground floor.
Manchester – £22.50
Edinburgh – £24.50
Austria
Innsbruck – €24.50
Vienna – €25.55
Still the only Hard Rock Café we have visited with a throne.
Belgium
Brussels – €29.70
Offers a fantastic view over the Grand Place – if you get there early enough. Head to the top floor to spot some original sketches by artists like John Lennon, Pete Townshend and Bono. Skip the burger and enjoy a Belgian waffle.
Croatia
Dubrovnik – €29.90
Cyprus
Ayia Napa – €20.50
Czech Republic
Prague – CZK 610
One of the few HRC restaurants we have visited several times. Food and drink are pricey by Prague’s standards, but there is plenty of memorabilia to check out.
We suggest checking out the Black Angels Bar at Hotel U Prince just up the road for a proper cocktail.
Denmark
Copenhagen – DKK 274
Ultimately quite disappointing, with little memorabilia and zero atmosphere.
Germany
Berlin – €27.45
Just off the busy Kurfürstendamm, you know what to expect as you climb the stairs.
Cologne – €26.90
We have visited this Café twice.
Hamburg – Prices currently unavailable
Located near the docks, we walked all the way from Steinwerder Cruise Terminal, through the Old Elbe Tunnel to have a beer here.
Munich – €27.90
Probably one of the least exciting venues we have visited. Suggest grabbing your pin badge from the gift shop then heading across the road to the much more interesting Hofbräuhaus for beer.
Greece
Athens – €23.20
Hungary
Budapest – HUF 9400
Iceland
Reykjavik – ISK 5480
The most expensive entry on the Hard Rock Global Price Index. We arrived in Reykjavik too early in the day for food or drink, so can’t comment on either. Consider having a local beer at Bastard Brew instead.
Ireland
Dublin – €24.50
Italy
Florence – €27.45
Milan – €29.95
Rome – €27.70
Venice – €30.10
To be fair, this may be one of the cheaper eateries in Venice…
Malta
Malta Airport – €22.55
Netherlands
Amsterdam – €31.45
Expensive and sorely lacking in memorabilia, this has to be one of the most disappointing venues on the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index.
North Macedonia
Podgorica – €9.90 (Burger only, beer prices unavailable)
Norway
Tromso – NOK 299 (beer prices unavailable)
Located inside the Arctic Circle, this is the most northerly HRC on the planet. It’s also a long walk from the Breivika Cruise Terminal. Another surprisingly small memorabilia collection but the shop is well stocked.
Poland
Gdansk – PLN 82.90
Situated in the heart of the Old Town, this is actually a genuinely good restaurant.
Krakow – PLN 82.90
Located in a prime spot overlooking the Rynek, the food and merch is average, but the view is fantastic.
Warsaw – PLN 82.90
One of Linda’s all-time favourites because the bartender never seemed too worried about cocktail measures.
Wrocław – PLN 82.90
Portugal
Lisbon – €25.95
This Café is a serious hike up the hill from the cruise terminal over some of the worst sidewalks in Europe. And we arrived before they opened properly. This particular restaurant does seem to have a decent amount of memorabilia to look at.
Porto – €24.75
Romania
Bucharest – RON 91
Located outside the city centre in a pleasant park, this was the first HRC we ever visited. And it is one of the better ones too.
Spain
Barcelona – €25.20
Gran Canaria – €20.90
Relatively cheap by Spanish standards, this HRC is not the easiest to get to – particularly for wheelchair/scooter users. It also has one of the smallest memorabilia collections we’ve ever seen. It has a great view of the car park though.
This is a decent way to end a day visiting Sioux City – if you have any energy left.
Madrid – Prices currently unavailable
Malaga – €24.70
Mallorca – €24.70
Tenerife – €24.70
Sweden
Gothenburg – SEK 308
The Winter Olympics was on while we visited so the usual wall-to-wall music videos were on hold.
Stockholm – SEK 327
Distinctly unmemorable and quite grubby from the outside. We actually thought the restaurant may have closed down.
North America
USA
The cheapest Hard Rock Café is the outlet in Tampa, Florida, charging $27.64. Tampa also happens to be the base of the Seminole tribe who now own the HRC brand. The most expensive beer and burger is (unsurprisingly) found in New York at Yankee Stadium – $32.38.
It’s worth noting that there are many other North American HRC locations (Chicago, Nashville, Miami etc). However, these restaurants do not list prices so they are currently omitted from the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index.
Prices for US restaurants have been adjusted to include city taxes. Tips are at your discretion, but you will probably be expected to leave ~15% on top of the prices listed below.
Atlanta, GA – Prices currently unavailable
Atlantic City, NJ – $30.92
Baltimore, MD – $28.08
Biloxi, MS – $29.42
Foxwoods, Ledyard, CT – $28.18
Honolulu, HI – $30.30
Las Vegas, NV – $31.42
Los Angeles, CA – $30.72
Miami, FL – Prices currently unavailable
Located in the Bayside district, the most interesting thing about Hard Rock Café Miami is the strange shape of the building.
Myrtle Beach, SC – $28.88
New Orleans, LA – $29.14
New York, NY – $31.57
Astonishingly, this HRC is one of the cheapest places to get a beer in the Times Square district of Manhattan.
Yankee Stadium, New York, NY – $32.38
Niagara Falls, NY – $27.26
Philadelphia, PA – $28.61
San Antonio, TX – $28.41
San Francisco, CA – $31.50
Tampa Airport, FL – $31.94
Tampa, FL – $27.64
Central America
Menus for Hard Rock Cafés in Central America are hard to come by. So as things stand, Panama City is by far the cheapest restaurant on the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index to grab a beer and a burger, costing just USD $18.50
Dominican Republic
Punta Cana – Prices currently unavailable
Santo Domingo – Prices currently unavailable
Mexico
Cabo San Lucas – MXD $325 (beer prices not published)
Guadalajara – Prices currently unavailable
Panama
Panama City – PAB $18.00
We are scheduled to visit Panama City in October, so will provide a review after that.
Puerto Rico
Ponce – USD $25.36 (including sales tax)
South America
According to the official menus hosted at hardrock.com, Paramaribo in Suriname is home to the world’s cheapest Original Legendary Steak Burger, costing a mere $0.49. Call us sceptical, but this seems a little too good to be true. More likely, the Paramaribo HRC is using a generic menu with USD pricing as a placeholder.
At the other end of the South American section of the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index is Puerto Maduro in Argentina, charging prices that are almost double everywhere else in South America.
Argentina
With six restaurants, the Hard Rock Café seems to be a popular brand in Argentina.
Buenos Aires Airport – Prices currently unavailable
Cordoba Airport – Prices currently unavailable
Iguazu – Prices currently unavailable
Iguazu Airport – Prices currently unavailable
Puerto Madero – ARS 30,400
Ushuaia – Prices currently unavailable
The southern-most restaurant on the Hard Café Global Price Index. Maybe we’ll get to see this one if we ever manage an Antarctica cruise!
Bolivia
La Paz – BOB 95
Santa Cruz – BOB 130
Brazil
Curitiba – Prices unavailable
Florianópolis – Prices currently unavailable
Gramado – Prices currently unavailable
Porto Alegre – Prices currently unavailable
Ribeirão Preto – BRL 90.80
Colombia
Cartagena – Prices currently unavailable
Guyana
Georgetown – Prices currently unavailable
Paraguay
Asuncion – Prices currently unavailable
Cuidad del Este – Prices currently unavailable
Suriname
* It would appear that Suriname restaurants are using a generic menu with older prices listed in USD.
Paramaribo – SRD $18.00 (beer prices unavailable)
Suriname Airport – Prices currently unavailable
Uruguay
Montevideo – Prices currently unavailable
Venezuela
Caracas – Prices currently unavailable
Asia
At $41.65 for a beer and burger, it’s no surprise to discover that the world’s second most expensive Hard Rock Café is located in Dubai. That’s nearly 3.5x the cost of the exact same meal in the Philippines!
Cambodia
* These prices seem too low. It seems that both Cambodian cafés have uploaded generic menus with US pricing.
Angkor – KHR 20.50
Phnom Penh – KHR 23.10
China
Shenzhen – Prices currently unavailable
Tianjin – Prices currently unavailable
Guam
Tumon – Prices currently unavailable
India
Bengaluru – INR 1050
Bengaluru Whitefield – INR 1049
Chennai – Prices currently unavailable
Hyderabad – INR 1248
Kolkata – INR 500 (burger only, beer prices unavailable)
New Delhi – INR 699 (burger only, beer prices unavailable)
Pune – Prices currently unavailable
Indonesia
Bali – IDR 387,860
Bali Airport – IDR 416,904
Japan
Osaka – ¥3160 (beer prices not listed)
Yokohama – ¥3160 (beer prices not listed)
Tokyo Roppongi – ¥3160 (beer prices not listed)
Tokyo Uyeno Eki – ¥3160 (beer prices not listed)
Laos
Vientiane – LAK 530,000
The only venue on the Hard Rock Café Global Price Index which charges half-a-million for a beer and a burger!
Maldives
Male – Prices currently unavailable
Malaysia
Genting Highlands – MYR 133
Ipoh – MYR 97
Kuala Lumpur – MYR 101
Kuala Lumpur Airport – MYR 120
Melaka – MYR 90
Penang – MYR 114
Puteri Harbour – MYR 130
Mongolia
Ulan Bataar – Prices currently unavailable
Nepal
Kathmandu – NPR 2,375.00
Phillipines
Clark – Prices currently unavailable
Makati – PHP 720
Manila – Prices currently unavailable
Singapore
Changi Airport – SGD 43.95
Singapore – SGD 45.90
Thailand
Bangkok – THB 905
Chiang Mai – THB 760
Pattaya – Prices currently unavailable
Phuket – Prices currently unavailable
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Dubai – AED 153
Africa
At $8.15, Johannesburg in South Africa is home to the cheapest Hard Rock Café in the world. However…. this is their lunch time menu deal where you receive a free beer with your burger. It is very likely that prices are more expensive in the evening.
At the other end of the scale, Lagos (Nigeria) is the most expensive, costing three times as much as Johannesburg. In fact, a beer and a burger is only $0.50 cheaper than the same meal at Tampa, USA!
Egypt
Nabq – EGP 1018
Sharm el Sheik – EGP 1018
Nigeria
Lagos – NGN 43,500
South Africa
Cape Town – Prices not available
Johannesburg – ZAR 149 (beer is free when bought with a burger at lunch time!)
Sun City – Prices not available
Tunisia
Port el Kantaoui – TND 62
Closing thoughts on the HRC Global Price Index
The Hard Rock Café Global Price Index is a work in progress, constantly updated as new information becomes available. All prices were correct at the time of publication, but we apologise in advance if any restaurant has failed to post pricing updates before you visit.
If you can provide photos of updated menus at any location, we would be grateful!
It’s also worth pointing out that Hard Rock Cafés tend to be much more expensive than standalone restaurants, regardless of where you find yourself. Franchises are eye-wateringly expensive (along with the rental fees for the memorabilia), and the prices charged for beer-n-burger reflect that.
By all means have a look at the displays, grab a beer and a pin from the merch shop – but consider eating elsewhere to help the local economy.
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