Hard Rock Cafe Has A Godzilla Menu – But You’ll Need A Passport To Try It

Between Godzilla Day and the theatrical release of Godzilla Minus Zero, it’s a great time to be a kaiju fan. While Godzilla has graced everything from Pabst Blue Ribbon to C4 Energy in the past year, the king of the monsters recently stomped into five Hard Rock Cafe locations across his home country of Japan. This themed menu is available through November 15th; let’s get into the details so you can start booking that flight to Tokyo.

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What’s on Hard Rock Cafe’s Godzilla menu?

Credit: Hard Rock Cafe Japan

If you notice any abnormal grammar in the following quoted descriptions, chalk them up to us using a translation of the menu on Hard Rock Cafe Japan‘s website. (Professional translation services are not in my budget.)

Godzilla Minus Zero Burger

A powerful burger featuring a pitch-black bun inspired by Godzilla, filled with two smash patties, cheddar cheese, and pulled pork. Roasted garlic aioli and smoky BBQ sauce, accented by the textures of fried onions and fried jalapeños. Served with black bamboo charcoal French fries, it expresses the world of scorched earth and rubble after Godzilla passes by.

Godzilla may be Japanese, but this is the most American burger I’ve ever seen. Cheddar cheese, pulled pork, and fried jalapeños on a BBQ-sauced double smashburger? Sign me up, folks. This is a monster of a burger, and I wish it were available at our stateside Hard Rock Cafes.

(That said, here’s your friendly reminder to avoid any food or drink made with charcoal if you’re on basically any oral medication. Activated charcoal is so good at blocking medication from entering the body, it’s regularly used to treat drug overdose or poisoning!)

Kids Godzilla Burger & Atomic Breath Sprite

A kids’ burger made by sandwiching two smashed patties, cheddar cheese, and pulled pork in a jet-black bun, finished with roasted garlic aioli and BBQ sauce.

The kids’ option on the Godzilla menu is, unsurprisingly, a less-intense version of the adult burger. This burger skips the fried onions and peppers, but keeps everything else (including the garlic aioli!?) because kids deserve complicated burgers too.

This meal also comes with a Sprite made with some sort of blue syrup to emulate the vibrant color of Godzilla’s nuclear Atomic Breath attack. You really don’t have to twist my arm to try a new take on Sprite, even with such an ominous name.

Godzilla Minus Zero Shake

A shake made with bamboo charcoal, black sesame, and vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream, cocoa biscuits, chocolate sauce, and smoked bacon inspired by Godzilla’s dorsal fin.

You had me right up until the end there, Hard Rock Cafe Japan. A black sesame milkshake with chocolate cookies and syrup? I’m curious! Why are we adding a strip of smoked bacon as a garnish? I almost get where they’re coming from with the “dorsal fin” thing, but I’m mostly worried that America has become a bad culinary influence on Japan.