Whenever online discussions turn to Manchester's most missed pubs, clubs and restaurants, one name crops up time and again.
The restaurant, said to have been the place the chain that introduced the 'original' American burger to the UK's high streets, has sadly long since disappeared from the streets of Manchester. In the early 1970s, The Great American Disaster (TGAD) opened in the Old Half Moon Chambers on Chapel Walks.
The chain was the brainchild of Peter Morton who later started up the now globally successful Hard Rock Cafe chain. A testing bed for authentic 'American style' food, TGAD has been often reported to have paved the way for the UK's burger boom in the late 1970s.
