Five minutes after we arrive at what was once John's Fish Bar, a passer-by peers through the doorway with a wistful expression. He asks hopefully: "Are you opening again?"
The Cardiff building's owner George Tsitsinakis laughs. "Everyone asks me that," he says.
It is about 20 years since a portion of chips was sold here, but you wouldn't know it from the site, which almost looks frozen in time. The shopfront on Clive Road, Canton, only looks slightly worn, with an eye-catching slogan painted on the window: "Cod almighty — freshest haddock in the valley!"
