When you walk in the door you go back in time about 50 years. It's a sit down cafe and does carry out food too. The seating is mostly booth like, functional, with each booth just about holding four adults somewhat comfortably but not very comfy. Each booth has a table and two and two bench style seating, with two adults fitting in by sliding along each bench with the table in the middle. So it's not leisurely eating you squeeze in, order, eat and go. The salt, pepper and vinegar holders too are old style and far better than their more modern plastic counterparts. This place has been a part of the Dundalk scene forever. Well that's not really true, but there was a spate of Italian immigration into this part of the island of Ireland in the mid 1960's which saw the arrival of the Scappaticci and Mallocca families to the area and both families opened fish & chip shops. In those days there were no Chinese or Pakistani take aways either. Fish and chips were the staple diet. The thing I remember most about about them all is the ice - cream, particularly Scappaticci's ice cream which was fabulous. Each family made and sold their own ice cream as they couldn't get proper Italian ice cream here at the time, they couldn't get proper pizza flour, fresh basil and so on. Anyway enough of my flawed memory. This place serves up very good and very filling portions of cod fish or smoked cod and chips, pots of strong tea in 1960's mugs that should be bigger in size, with optional bread & butter (also serves beef or chicken burgers, egg and chips, sausage and chips, pasta dishes and so on) at very reasonable prices. The food arrives piping hot and quickly as this type of food cooked in animal fat becomes very unpleasant when it cools. This was my second visit ever to this place. The only real disappointments for me were the fish batter as it was overcooked and solid, not crispy light and crunchy as it really must be for this type of food to be super with the result that the batter was really hard to cut through and the cod itself was a fairly thin piece. On the fish alone it would be two out of five. No doubt I'll return at least once in the next year read more