Scotsman — Restaurant in Oslo

A miserable experience. This review is a warning to other non-Norwegians, or perhaps, just other Americans. My mother and I ended up here after I gave in on her dinner preferences (a Norwegian restaurant NOT on Karl Johans looked like a better choice to me - Stortorvets Gjaestgiveri). Big mistake. The food - what was served of it - was average. Enough on that. As for the service, the curly haired woman behind the bar shifted her smile into a scowl as soon as we opened our mouths. She was rude about giving us menus, rude about where we were sitting (we told her there was an empty table outside we were hoping to sit at if it wasn’t taken, but she needed confirmation for some reason before taking our orders), and even rude during the payment process. The tables outside are sandwiched too close together and even the waiters struggled to squeeze between people. One dish was never served and no one came to check on us (perhaps because of the cramped layout?). After flagging people twice to ask about the status of our missing dish, we went back inside and were given the same spiel from the rude bartender. Three times we asked about our food and three times we were dismissed. It felt like an ugly game. We asked for a refund of the unserved dish and left. Never received an apology for taking our money and refusing to bring what we ordered. My mother suspected the staff took issue with us being American and I think she is quite possibly correct. I realize our country is going through hell at the moment and perhaps others feel like piling on. But, if you work in the service industry, maybe your ire is best directed on personal time. Dining here was a special kind of indignity I wouldn’t wish on most people. I would caution other Americans to pass on this place and try one of Oslo’s many other restaurants or...

It's a Scottish themed pub, no question and no disappointment there.

My review is about the wings.. and will probably land better with Americans passing through looking for Buffalo wings.

I'm giving a 4/5 but you may think 3/5 based on these 3 notes...

They are smaller, but come in a higher quantity (10 or 20) so really you get the same amount of meat. (They are probably smaller because they are not filled with hormones and crap like in the states)

Could have just been my order at that moment, but the plate was ALL drums, no flats. I know that matters to some.

If you need the Blue Cheese to be on point, you're going to be disappointed. There is definitely blue cheese there, it's just in a water soup that hides the flavor.

Outside of those 3 notes, the meat was good quality and well cooked, the buffalo sauce (Frank's based) was a regular Medium (Hot to the Norwegians), and the service was pretty normal for a Scottish Pub in pretty much any country I've been to.

Would eat and have a drink...

Discourteous bordering on rude staff. Utterly indifferent to the fact I was a paying customer. The guy that wiped the tables was a total ignoramus - a pathetic attempt to clean them, done in all haste, left them as dirty as they had been. Food was mediocre and grossly overpriced. For kr 300 the so called bangers and mash served was a miserly portion of 2 sausages and a pile of bland mashed potatoes. Even for Norway the beer was also overpriced. Avoid this place. There are plenty of others in Oslo that are at least equivalent or even superior with staff more favourably disposed to customers and more...