I was disappointed in the place. The food wasn't good. Â They were blaring music videos the entire time but I don't think half of them could have been considered rock music. Â Our waiter brought our food then vanished. Â He had all the personality and charisma of a toothpick. Â The decor was what i expected. Â Really not a great experience.
Review Source:a fun place to hang out and watch music videos. Â
nachos were huge, side of mac n cheese was good, but vegetarian eggrolls - they were 5 rolls of what Max and Erma's calls  black bean roll ups.  for $10?  I'll pass next time.  They were not that good and far too small for $10.
It was a-ok for a late night stop.
My pumpkin pie martini was unique and very good.
We came here during a convention when every other yelp-reviewed place in 10 minutes' walk had a 45 minute wait. In retrospect I should have starved and waited. Here's the deal: Hard Rock Cafes are uniformly dim, loud, and bland. Their menus conform to bland food with no real qualities other than edible, and even that might be questionable.
You would be hard pressed to do worse than this noisy, unwelcoming venue.
I think of HRCs as the worst reflection of modern Americanism: complacent about quality, riding on unjustly earned reputation, and unwilling to aspire better or innovate. A damn shame when Indy's could feature local microbrews and produce or anything to make it different.
The food is boring and tasteless, overpriced and woefully deficient in spices or flavors. Please could my palate be awakened from its coma? Service was fair but I'm sick of constant upselling when I just want your boring burger. Suggesting the $15 drink as a great selling point is certainly not welcome, and the servers looked bored out of their minds.
Whatever edge the Hard Rock Cafe had was lost in the mists of history, especially when the 10 year old celebrating her birthday surrounded by her excited Bieber-fan friends and family is cooing over a cake while you wait for your meal. I wasn't disappointed because that implies I had some standards and expectations for a good meal to begin with, but I lamented this was my only option between starvation and going on a rampage through Steak and Shake as the newest sleep-deprived choco-zombie.
On second thought...
Pretty much what I expect of any Hard Rock. Crappy food, no local brews, mediocre service. Â I love my city, and we don't need this crappy kitsch invading the heart of our downtown. Â We're better than this.
Indianapolis will be packed with visitors in the next few weeks, and I hope they use yelp as their guide and avoid this place.
What else can I say about hard rock cafe.
Had a late lunch there on a Sunday. Food was ok. Nothing great and it was not bad.
Never understood what the draw was for Hard Rock Cafe. Having ate there finally, I still dont understand.
Above average prices, about average food.
A huge menu to choose from. Bit pricey.
Was staying in Indy for the night with my family and we couldn't decide what to do for dinner so we thought we'd give Hard Rock Cafe a try. Â Hmm, big mistake. Â Yes, the service was friendly, but the food was just Ok, and OMG, when it was all over I got a $268 bill for dinner for 6, and we only had 2 alcoholic drinks! Â The food and the atmosphere did not justify the price!
I loved the line at the bottom of my bill that said "For your convenience an 18% voluntary gratuity has been added to your bill". Â When I asked about it our server explained it as being due to our large party size. Â Since when is a family of 6 a "large party"??
[ Visited in November, 2010 ]
Visiting TGI Friday's...whoops, I mean the Hard Rock, in Indianapolis wasn't my idea, but we made the best of it. The food is decent, but really.....whatever happened to that small bit of unique quality Hard Rock's used to have?
It's long gone, so skip this place.
Is anyone really looking for a Hard Rock Indianapolis T-Shirt to complete their collection these days? Â Food is below average, bar area is small and makes for tough TV viewing, service is spotty, kind of pricey for what you get, etc. etc. etc. Â I guess if you haven't been to one they are kind of cool (maybe).
Review Source:This Hard Rock was decent but by no means a vibrant location like some of the other cafe's are located in the chain. In fact Indianapolis in the downtown area seemed just bit boring to me. Well regardless of all that I had a nice walk downtown anyway. It was weird the downtown was dead but I could not get a parking spot...hmmmm.... perhaps that is the only thing happening in downtown Indianapolis. Same merchandise as any of the other chains.
Review Source:I have not been to this Hard Rock since I moved back to Indianapolis. Â I went to dinner with a friend who turned me down for the Claddagh irish pub, PF Changs, Champs, and Rock Bottom. Â It was very cold outside and it was very cold inside the restaurant as well. Â I can't complain about my entree, Â It was the twisted Mac and Cheese and it was very good. Â However it was the size of a small portion at Noodles and company. Â That and it cost $16. Â I asked about chips and salsa, but they were $6.50. Â The tap beer selection was weak. Â Our server was nice and the service was good, but I just left disappointed and still hungry.
Review Source:Hard Rock is a place you go to say you've experienced it once, then it's just kind of blah.
I went here twice while I was a Purdue student in West Lafayette. Sometimes I would stay with my family in Indianapolis when they visited. The food was never that great. Applebee's or another not so great chain could compare to the food quality here. Drinks are expensive.
The main reason you're here is to listen to the music, and watch the videos playing on the walls, along with oohing and aahing over the famous memorabilia. Go once, then don't bother coming back.
Hard Rock Cafe is part of a chain that offers pricier food and drink based on all the supposedly valuable music memorabilia housed in its eateries. At best, the food is uneven (a burger was tasty but its accompanying fries were hard, little pellets). The drinks are nicely mixed but any buzz was killed by the high-pitched screech of a fire alarm going off not once but twice during a visit.
Well, at least, the restrooms were clean.
I've really never been to a Hard Rock Cafe until I went to the one in Indy in June...or July?
I was very entertained by all the rock star memorabilia; I was wondering around the place like I was lost. They had some pretty cool stuff in there; Bob Dylan lyrics from one of this shows!
It seemed to be bachelorette party central in Indy that night because most of the tables in here consisted of penis straws and random out cries of, " no! I can't take another shot!"
The food here was really good and seriously, God bless our server because I know I would have been beyond annoyed!
As far as Hard Rock Cafes go, this one is above-average in the food department, but below-average in the memorabilia. Â If I recall correctly, the crowning piece in their collection is a jacket worn by David Bowie once. Â But, be honest, you don't really go to check that stuff out. Â You go because of a misguided sense of rock and roll fantasies. Â At least, I do. Â I don't stop airguitaring the whole time I'm in there--unless they play ABBA.
The food here is just downright tasty. Â Selection-wise, it's the same as other Hard Rocks I have been to, but here everything is just a little bit better cooked. Â Even their sandwiches seem to have superior portions. Â My experiences with the waitstaff have been entirely unmemorable, no major complaints but no real exemplary behaviors.
The music isn't too loud--decide for yourself if that's a perk or disadvantage--but the aisles can get a little cramped if the place is crowded. Â People sitting at the ends of the table might fear for getting their food knocked over by swiftly-moving and inconsiderate passersby.
Everyone already knows the premise of Hard Rock Cafe so I'll skip that part of it. It's a fun restaurant with lots on the wall to look at. The food is decent, but on a Friday night we had terrible service. Our waiter didn't even come over to our table initially until we had been sitting for at least 10 minutes. After that, he very rarely refilled our drinks and was just very slow and not attentive at all. We had a party of seven and were trying to make it to a concert at Conseco (which we very politely let him know - and yes, I swear, it was polite). He just said that everyone was going to that concert and basically he didn't really care. I think it actually made him move slower. He had no personality and no people skills. We were sitting at a big table near the front and a manager never came by to check on us either. Very disappointed and the food isn't good enough to let bad service slide.
Review Source:I wanna rock! and disco! and top 40! and jam out to whatever super-loud music they are crankin' at this local establishment of the world-wide phenom known as the Hard Rock. As you enter the restaurant, you are assaulted with loud music and tons of rock memorabilia. Speaking of rocks, if you haven't ever visited a Hard Rock, you must be living under one.
Average food, big portions, great art to oogle at, friendly service.
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