Given that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has more than 50 live concerts, shows, events and themed happy hours planned for the main plaza, All Access Café could not have come at a better time. The brand new operation replaces and vastly improves upon the original quick-serve food stand on an upper level of the museum.

“Our café originally was on the third floor but we shifted it down to the main plaza level,” explains Jordan Cudney with Aramark, the food service company that oversees the operation. “We moved the ticket booth downstairs by main exhibit hall and built a whole new café and partnered with three chef partners, Jonathon Sawyer, Fabio Salerno and Rocco Whalen, who each have their own unique items on the menu.” (See the complete menu below.)

The aptly named All Access Café is open to the public, even those who have not paid admission to enter the Rock Hall. That means everybody onsite for plaza events can pop inside for one of Whalen’s pizzas, Sawyer’s pork miso ramen bowls, or Salerno’s meatball panini. The new café soon will be augmented by two new top-of-the-line food trucks that will park on the plaza and dispense food out of one and beer, wine and booze out of the other.

Come July, a new full-service kitchen will come online at the Rock Hall (they currently partner with FirstEnergy Stadium to share their facility), which will facilitate even bigger improvements in the Hall’s food service operations.


This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2017.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.

One reply on “Aptly Named All Access Cafe Offers Quick-Serve, Chef-Driven Fare to Rock Hall Visitors”

  1. Cheese, cheese and more cheese. I hate cheese. Why must everything have cheese? I learned long ago that when people can’t cook, they just pile on the cheese.

    I’m sick of wings and food that’s tossed in a pile and get wrapped in a tortilla or served as a panini. And get rid of the darn fish sauce. Not everyone appreciates the layer of flavor a bunch of fermented fish heads, tails and skeletons offer. Send the fish sauce back to Southeast Asia. When left out, Thai food is awesome. With it it’s just “yuk, what’s that awful, rotten aftertaste”.

    Throw a grilled chicken breast on those menus. Throw a burger with carmelized onions on the menu. Golden brown carmalized onions, not tasteless Vidalia sauted, pale, limp onions.

    Rocco. What’s wrong with rigatoni with bolognese sauce. Real bolognese sauce without cream! Cheese on the side.

    And enough pulled pork. Where’s the BBQ brisket slices?

    Enough with the foodie menu. You famous “chefs” have pushed your foodie menus on us all over town. We are sick of the same slop wherever we go.

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