Portland Steak & Chophouse

09/07/08

Excellent beef, and a good variety of appetizers.

by vipaka at Citysearch

We've eaten at this restaurant before when it was Portland Steak and Chophouse; now its name is Kincaid's. It was good the first time, but we had a better meal this time.

It's particularly good for beef meals. Rarely do we eat beef, but this time that's what we wanted. The colossal prawns have a tatsy batter, and spicy sauce, and are accompanied by celery and the best cole slaw I've ever eaten. The deviled eggs with seafood were good. There were three eggs, split into halves, and there were three varieties, thus enabling two persons to share the appetizer more easily. We both had the pea salad which was good.

One of us had the prime rip as entree and the other had the ribeye. Both were excellent. The ribeye being more flavorful, but both were tender and perfectly cooked.

The service was satisfactory. Better than the Portland average.

• Pros: good food and plenty of it; good selection of appetizers
• Cons: noisy, several plates dropped and broken; crashing dishes, bellowing children; waiters flirting with young female customers and forgeting their other customers

08/28/08

So sad!

by dinnerdiner12 at Citysearch

I am so sad to hear the Portland Steak and Chop house has closed! I loved their food and their happy hour was the best in town! Luckily I've heard great things about their replacement. Kincaids? I think it's called?? My friends have gone there and said it's even better!

• Pros: hello new restaurant!
• Cons: saying goodbye stinks!

03/23/08

Do not eat here!

by bturney at Citysearch

The food is awful. We ordered the crab cakes which were drowned in sauce, which ruined the dish. Stay away from the french onion soup, any normal person would only be able to stand a few spoonfulls before the salty richness makes you want to run to the toilet. Imagine eating melted butter with cheese and you may get some slight indication of what this unpleasant soup is like. My girlfriend ordered the Prime Rib, their "signature dish," which was entirely too salty with heinous mashed potatoes. I had the lamb chops which came out not medium rare as I had ordered, but BARELY SEARED. It was like they had mistaken lamb chops for ahi tuna. I sent the dish back and they finally got the temperature right but it was still very bland and tasted terrible. If you want lamb of this quality, book a ticket to london on british airways. Their lamb chops on my recent flight there were about the same...if not better.