{"id":446,"date":"2009-07-17T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.wordpress.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-07-17T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:29:01","slug":"portland-ringside-steakhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Portland &#8211; Ringside Steakhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a celebratory dinner last night at Portland&#8217;s old-timey steakhouse, the Ringside,\u00a0 around for decades before Ruth&#8217;s, Morton&#8217;s, and El Gaucho crept into the city.\u00a0\u00a0 The Ringside is old, dark, and has seniors lining up at the door for their early-bird specials.\u00a0 Thankfully the darkness cancels out the glare of the white socks and sandals.<\/p>\n<p>Eschewing the jello and mashed potato crowd, we started with a plate of oysters, a small order of their &#8220;famous&#8221; onion rings (they are good),\u00a0 split a 24 oz porterhouse, with garlic mash, a side of sauteed mushrooms in wine and herbs (nice) and finished with creme brulee.<\/p>\n<p>No light for photos, except this one of the &#8220;calm before the storm.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Superb table service, at least for us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"ringside\" src=\"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/ringside.jpg\" alt=\"ringside\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a celebratory dinner last night at Portland&#8217;s old-timey steakhouse, the Ringside,\u00a0 around for decades before Ruth&#8217;s, Morton&#8217;s, and El Gaucho crept into the city.\u00a0\u00a0 The Ringside is old, dark, and has seniors lining up at the door for their early-bird specials.\u00a0 Thankfully the darkness cancels out the glare of the white socks&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland &#8211; Ringside Steakhouse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[2521,2708,2876,3027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}