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Restaurant information | |
Established | 2012 |
Food type | |
Street address | 2225 Northeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard |
City | Portland |
County | Multomah |
State | Oregon |
Postal/ZIP Code | 97212 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°32′22″N 122°39′43″W / 45.5394°N 122.6619°W |
Website |
oxpdx |
Ox is an Argentine steakhouse in Portland, Oregon's Eliot neighborhood, in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
Greg and Gabrielle Denton opened Ox in 2012. [4] [5] [6] A "spillover space" called Whey Bar opened later in the year. [7]
In 2015, a ventilation malfunction filled Ox with smoke and forced an evacuation. [8] The restaurant released a cookbook in 2016. [9] [10] Ox began taking reservations in 2019. [11] Kurt Huffman owns at least a 20 percent stake in the restaurant, as of 2020. [12]
Ox was named Restaurant of the Year by The Oregonian in 2013. [13] Ox received honorable mention in the Best Restaurant, Best SteakHouse, and Best Chowder categories in Willamette Week's annual "Best of Portland Readers' Poll" in 2015. [14] The restaurant ranked third in the Best Steak House category in 2017. [15] The Dentons were nominated for Portland's Chef of the Year by Eater Portland's Eater Awards in 2016. [16] The duo won in the Best Chef Northwest category by the James Beard Foundation Awards in 2017. [17] [18]