For many people, fish and chips conjure a whole lot of nostalgia, offering a way to reconnect to the past. If that sentence rings true for you, then you’ll love this charming mom'n'pop outfit in Red Hill. The shop is an original corner store, decorated with a mural so old that you can see they’ve painted an extra digit onto their phone number (and no, you won't find a website for them online, although they do offer takeaway delivery via all the usual digital suspects). There's a sit-down coin operated table top game machine with Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, and a hilarious poster for World Expo '88 that could have been sitting there for more than 35 years.
The menu is a remnant of 1970s Australiana with prices to match: potato scallops for $1, dim sims $2.50, minimum chips for $5, or fish starting at $6.90 for battered cod, which never succumbs to that overly “fishy” smell, while the chips come with a thick dusting of chicken salt, because of course they do. A nice piece of grilled barramundi will set you back $11.90, but that's about as fancy as it gets. Special mention must also go to Red Hill Seafood's burger with the lot for $6, which is just as you remember burgers being on those childhood road trips: iceberg lettuce, pineapple, tinned beetroot, crispy bacon and loads of sauce.