Evil Hard Rock Cafe Dubai

When I was just about a couple of months in Dubai, I once visited the Hard Rock Cafe Dubai, along Sheik Zayed road, not far away from the Dubai Marina. It's an obvious landmark and - so I experienced - not easy to reach through that labyrinth of highways curling around it. I passed it several times from close by but not able to reach it. A bit later I found out you can only reach it one way off the highway in direction Jebel Ali. Once inside I heard why.

An early image, no highway nearby...

The Hard Rock cafe was among the first buildings around Marina and in the early days one had to drive for nearly an hour to reach it from downtown Burj Dubai. The Hard Rock cafe was nearly in the middle of the dessert since about 1998. Pre-historic times for Dubai...

Now the first plot of the mystical Dubai Thriller is in the making, we need symbolic if not dramatic landmarks for the story, and what would do it better than this now deserted iconic building which hundreds of thousands residents have seen and visited in the last decade. Its true, the Hard Rock cafe closed just a few weeks after my visit. I ordered a Hard Rock burger and a cola, yep, alcohol was banned since the adjacent Palm Hotel had been closed down. 'That's how we lost our license', a depressed waiter told me.

Save the planet? Better read the thriller once written!

Our thriller will contain quite some supernatural features which will hassle our heroes, and it might be very possible that a part of the evil powers will hide away within the deserted Hard Rock Cafe, with its Globe on the top of the tower, symbolizing world domination. Interesting facts by the way are the words 'Amnesia' on the side of the building. And what to say about this site stating that the Atlantis club was once right beside the Hard Rock cafe. That's how it goes more often, that things are coming way beyond coincidence... I better hurry up writing before someone else taps this story out of the current zeitgeist...