There are over 30 restaurants to choose from in March from the beginning of March to the last day in March. You get to choose a restaurant and spend somewhere between $30 and $35 per person per restaurant. Go to any or all restaurants on the list. My two favorites on the list are the Ringside and Fogo de Chão. I've been going to the Ringside since somewhere in the late 50s and have never had a bad steak there. It's normally a little on the spendy side so $35 (or $30 or somewhere in between) is cheap for that place. The other good one is Fogo de Chao which although I've never been there my niece assures me it is a great Brazilian type restaurant that features excellent beef. Fogo is also normally spendy so it's a good deal at the same price. https://pdx.eater.com/maps/portland-dining-months-best-restaurants-mapped https://www.opentable.com/promo.aspx?m=11&pid=523
Never been to Ringside (or really, any high-end restaurants in Portland unless Country Kitchen counts), but I've been to a couple of Ruth's Chris and El Gauchos around the country and $35 for a good steak meal seems very reasonable.
Never been to Fogo but we have it and Texas de Brazil here. Same concept. Texas de Brazil is fantastic. Some I've talked to prefer fogo, some TDB. You must be a carnivore
O Yeah! Time to gain weight! Since I do not have the fortunate life of living in Oregon, I can still look from afar. NJ has many restaurants too.
I use to live in NJ as a young man. I was stationed at Ft. Monmouth, now closed. That was a high end electronics and crypto school. Great pizza as well as some nice bars. Beautiful in the Spring. They don't call it the Garden state for nothing. My cousin and her husband currently teach at Princeton as Profs. We also use to visit the boardwalk along the Atlantic. Really nice. Some Gorgeous homes there. Met a guy there when we were both hitch hiking to Newark. He looked and talked kind of like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. He was from NY city. So, we got to talking and he said he was originally from Portland. Turns out we were the same age and went to the same grade school, Chapman, for one year. I was astounded. His parents owned the old White Stag clothing co. They sold out to Columbia and moved to NYC. Had some of the best pizza in my life in NJ and NY city. It was in NY city that I had my first pizza by the slice. Geez, that was great pizza.
No, you don't get their premier steak dinners at that price. You get a special selection designed just for that occasion. But it does get you in the door. According to my niece, Fogo de Chão is the best of the restaurants but you have to wait past the offerings of salad and side dishes for the beef which she says is great.
Well Said!!!! When you served in Ft. Monmouth, did you ever drive through the County to discover great views, vast horse farms, and evidence of wealthy people attached to it all. I know Princeton. Tell your relatives about Hoagie Haven on Nassau St. It is one of the few affordable food establishments in town. They make the best Toasted Chicken Parm sandwich. I appreciate the whole mystique of Princeton (08540}. Pizza has it's "origins" in NY/NJ. We stay in a great 1984, crawl space, full attic, town house in Seaside. Its two blocks from the bay and 4 from ocean side. < I like this picture. Notice the cylindrical light and bay water reflection.
My first pizza was in 1957 in Oswego, Oregon. We used to get it at a little place called Pepi's. Loved pizza then, love it now. I lament the passing of Shakey's.
