Hampshire Hotel

A choice example of 1920s architecture, the Hammy still boasts a few locals who probably helped to save it from fire in 1929. Thank goodness they did, as the old tiles and fixtures make for a very cool room on the way to the beer garden. The real news is the talented young American cook at the burners, making beer-battered onion rings, buffalo wings with blue-cheese dressing, panko-crusted schnitzel, steak au poivre, chicken piccata, chilli cheese fries, steak sandwich with caramelised onion-apple jam - and salad, mash or steamed vegie sides for $2.50 a piece. Hotfoot it to the Hammy before it becomes impossibly hip.