Portland’s Best Seafood Restaurants and Food Carts | Eater Portland

"Few places have a more profound respect for the deep fryer than Scotland, which dredges most of its regional cuisine in a thick batter and drowns it in boiling oil. The titular Scotsman at the fryer, James, hails from the seaside town of Ardrossan, and his approach to fish is so quintessentially Scottish they might as well come with a complimentary splash of North Atlantic brine (there’s even haggis on the menu). The batter here is more robust than the American style, and the aptly named chips are chunky geometric shards of potato. Both come out of the fryer piping hot and deeply satisfying, even before the obligatory hit of malt vinegar." - Ben Coleman