Ox is a cozy, award-winning Argentinean steakhouse in Northeast Portland, renowned for its wood-fired grill, flavorful meats, and rich clam chowder with bone marrow.
"Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton and Greg Denton’s James Beard Award-winning Argentinian American steakhouse is now a staple of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. In this cozy, brick-walled dining room, appetizers like smoked beef tongue carpaccio with crispy sweetbreads lead into 42-ounce bone-in rib-eyes and grass-fed filet mignon off the grill, accompanied by spinach and ricotta dumplings or maple-glazed heirloom carrots. Start with a bourbon-and-beet syrup Ox Blood cocktail; finish with chocolate olive oil cake served with rum mascarpone mousse." - Ben Coleman
"A steakhouse where Alan enjoys skirt steak and red wine at the bar." - Thom Hilton
"It’s perhaps a little odd that the most famous dish from this Northeast Portland Latin American steakhouse is neither Latin American nor a steak, but the clam chowder with a smoked, jalapeño-dotted marrow bone at Ox remains not only a bucket list order at the restaurant, but in the city. Now that Portland’s bone marrow luge fever and Paley’s Place escargot with marrow bones are things of the past, Ox is one of the last bastions of bone marrow love in town, and the restaurant’s chowder remains shockingly delicate considering the sum of its parts." - Ben Coleman, Eater Staff
"It’s perhaps a little odd that the most famous dish from this Northeast Portland Latin American steakhouse is neither Latin American nor a steak, but the clam chowder with a smoked, jalapeño-dotted marrow bone at Ox remains not only a bucket list order at the restaurant, but in the city. Now that Portland’s bone marrow luge fever and Paley’s Place escargot with marrow bones are things of the past, Ox is one of the last bastions of bone marrow love in town, and the restaurant’s chowder remains shockingly delicate considering the sum of its parts. Note: Ox has been closed for repairs following a fire earlier this year; it should reopen on May 27." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton and Greg Denton’s James Beard Award-winning Argentinian American steakhouse is now a staple of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. In this cozy, brick-walled dining room, appetizers like smoked beef tongue carpaccio with crispy sweetbreads lead into 42-ounce bone-in rib-eyes and grass-fed filet mignon off the grill, accompanied by spinach and ricotta dumplings or maple-glazed heirloom carrots. Start with a bourbon-and-beet-syrup Ox Blood cocktail; finish with chocolate olive oil cake and Amarena cherries. Note: Ox is closed following a fire at the restaurant; it will reopen on April 3 at the earliest." - Krista Garcia, Thom Hilton
