The Red Room, University of Queensland, St Lucia

Last Thursday I went to The Red Room for chips and gravy.  I think that chips and gravy is an excellent combination.  Unfortunately, most of the places that serve chips and gravy are refectories, cafeterias, and food courts, and therefore suffer from the drawbacks endemic to such eateries.  The Red Room might not qualify as fine dining, but it is a proper bar and grill, which means that their chips and gravy are above average.  The fact that chips and gravy is such a basic dish means that there is not much that can be said on The Red Room's take on it, other than it being good.  The Red Room serves less than excellent beer battered chips.  This might sound like a negative, but the fact of the matter is that I have never had a negative experience with beer battered chips.  They are inherently good.  I just recognise that some are better than others.  The gravy was fairly unremarkable, but tasty enough for my purposes on that day.  Other observations about the dish are more or less common to chips and gravy.  Some chips get more gravy than others, and by the time one gets to the bottom of the bowl, the chips with more gravy become soggy.  In conclusion, could The Red Room's chips and gravy be better?  The answer is yes.  However, the fact that there is a place I can go to get better than usual chips and gravy made this experience a positive one.