Ruth's Chris Steak House

Fantastic spot for Happy Hour. Their large bar area has one one of my favorite happy hours in town. $7 Sizzle, Swizzle & Swirl. Tasty Manhattans, steak skewers cooked to order, medium rare please. Spicy Ahi Tuna, yum. Lobster bites with a tangy sauce and a steak sandwich that is huge by happy hour standards! Another bonus, the happy hour goes till 7!…

Expensive but good. Ruths Chris at 850 SW Broadway in Portland, OR - the new location - has a new feature on the menu. Past practice has been to offer everything a la carte. Now, the restaurant also offers a complete dinner for a specified price. The diner gets to choose from a selection of salad, side dish and meat options, with a dessert to round out a meal. Substitutions from items elsewhere on the menu are accommodated at additional cost.The full dinner comes in two price options, forty dollars and fifty dollars, with the difference being in the list of meat selections.

I ordered the fifty dollar dinner and had gazpacho soup garnished with crab, sauteed mushrooms, ribeye steak, and had creme brulee for dessert at a few dollars extra charge. My companion ordered a forty dollar dinner and had a generous piece of salmon topped with hollandaise sauce, in addition to his salad and potatoes.

I do not remember all of the menu options available for these dinners. We agreed that the food was very good.

I made some notes on prices for a few of the a la carte items: filet, forty; ribeye, forty-three; New York Strip, forty-four; T-bone, forty-eight; porterhouse, 86. Broccoli dish, nine, asperagus nine-fifty. Potatoes eight-fifty.

Why just three stars? I do not quite know, but there just seemed something lacking for such a pricy meal.…

Horrible food and service! 3x a loser. Go to the Benson or Ringside instead. I dont know who is running the place but I had more fun watching these clowns try to cook a steak than watching the president spend tax payers money. First, it was a special night; our anniversary. We sit then the waiter comes and calls be some other name and told me I was sitting in someone's table. I beg to defer? You talking to me? Meanwhile, we wait.. wait... still waiting.. no water or bread. I guess there was a shortage of bread and water because you had to ask.

two, then comes the steak. We asked for medium well. Both come out dripping with blood like they just hacked a cow in the back! Three, We send it back.. The steak comes back.. This time its burnt on the edges, cut it open and its still bloody! YOU OUT! We send it back. Comes back again. Still bloody and more burnt! I ask for the manager.

This guy comes out and tells me he will send it back; at this point Im about ready to eat my arm. My wife has stream coming out of her ears. He offers to give us a free side. How about I give you a free hit you upside the head!!? Then this clown gives me his card and invites me to their new locations. The only location these guys need is Home Economics Class in middle school. Our table looked like there had been a shark feeding frenzy. Horrible!…

Go to Morton's instead. Ordered a ribeye medium rare and it came well done. Sent it back and then was afraid to eat it. Staff made me feel uncomfortable about sending it back, but hey for $40 I think they can cook it to the correct temperature.…