Arlo Guthrie visits Hard Rock Park to announce Alice's Restaurant

(Myrtle Beach, SC – May 5, 2008) First a hugely popular satirical 60’s song, then a major motion picture… and now you can actually get a table at the famed “Alice’s Restaurant” when the dining venue opens at Hard Rock Park just in time for the Grand Opening June 2nd. Legendary folk artist, Arlo Guthrie stopped in today to continue his work with the Park, mixing counter-culture comfort food with leisurely hospitality, to create the ultimate folk rock inspired dining experience.

In line with the Park’s commitment to celebrate the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, Arlo has helped to turn his world famous 18 minute long musical monologue into a reality, by developing a warm and inviting reflection of the early folk/hippie sensibilities from which it sprang. Designed as a simple, New England colonial structure and decorated in a mid-sixties, hippie style, Alice’s Restaurant offers a relaxing alternative dining experience in the Park. The menu features a full selection of starters, soup, salads, entrees of fish, beef, fowl, Italian specialties, vegetarian and vegan dishes and scrumptious desserts.

Alice’s Restaurant is the Park’s uniquely special table service restaurant (sit down, sit in, you’ve got time). Inspired by the hilarious ‘talk-song’ based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, the restaurant tips its hat to the story by including the “Group W Bench” as well as props and memorabilia of the era. What will undoubtedly be a popular seat at the restaurant will be the “Arlo Table” a reservation only corner booth that features a unique Anamorphic “Lazy Susan” montage design of over 60 artists that influenced Arlo, or were influenced by him The optical effect merges the artists images into the face of Arlo Guthrie. Whoa.

The “comfort food” menu designed by Chef Tim Head and Arlo Guthrie will offer a full selection of items ranging from City of New Orleans Shrimp Creole to Officer Obie’s Pan Fried Pork Chops to, of course… Thanksgiving Dinner.

“Alice’s Restaurant is an attraction in it’s own right,” said Steven Goodwin, CEO of Hard Rock Park. "The award winning New England clam chowder alone will delight the taste buds of visitors from all over the world.”

Featuring acoustic and folk music that spans the 60’s to today, Alice’s Restaurant has that “walk right in” feel offering sanctified entrees and desserts so good they are criminal.

Hard Rock Park, scheduled to open to the public on May 9, is a 55-acre theme park boasting more than 50 attractions for rockers of all ages, including roller coasters, live shows and entertainment, children’s play areas, restaurants and retail stores.

For more information on Hard Rock Park or to purchase tickets, please visit www.hardrockpark.com.
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About Hard Rock Park:

HRP Myrtle Beach Operations, LLC, is designing, developing, and constructing; and will own and operate Hard Rock Park, an approximately 55-acre rock n’ roll theme park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina under a long term license agreement with Hard Rock International. HRP Myrtle Beach Operations LLC is a Partnership between the executive management team of Steven Goodwin, Felix Mussenden and Jon Binkowski, who designed and developed the park's concepts and are responsible for building and operating the Park; FHTP, LLC, a group of prominent local investors and community leaders and a joint venture led by real estate developer Ziel Feldman and Amnon Bar-Tur, Managing Member of SafeHarbor Holding, LLC; from New York and Africa Israel Investment and Polar International Real Estate from Israel. For more information on Hard Rock Park, visit www.hardrockpark.com.