Northern Lantern House Labs

Portland, OR

Ox

Portland fire-and-meat destination with composed plates, vegan options, and celebration energy.

Read from

oxpdx.com

Three pages, all on their own domain.

Last official read 5 August 2026. A later corpus refresh is not a new read of this page.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has not put in writing

Live reservation availability; current booking mechanics; detailed physical-access route and restroom configuration; and one more.

A blank means nobody said it; it never means we filled it in.

Two of the restaurant's own pages disagree. Both claims are kept; neither is quietly dropped.

Portland, ORConflicting official informationDietary options onlyBest recorded use: Date night

Tonight at Ox

What Deep Dish knows

Kitchen
Plant-forward · Wine-forward
Format
Official menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change.
Spend
Moderate planning band
Booking
The official site directs guests through its information and booking paths.
Menu
Published on oxpdx.com
Source
oxpdx.com
Dietary options only4 fields never stated

What do you need?

Dietary

Before you order

Dietary options only

The menu marks dietary options, but the restaurant has published nothing about how the kitchen keeps them apart. A vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free marker is not a celiac or severe-allergy protocol. Ask the restaurant directly if that distinction matters for your table.

A dedicated vegan menu is published.
The restaurant’s own words, from the dietaryDetails field

None of this is an allergen guarantee. Deep Dish records what a restaurant published and when it was read, and verifies nothing about a kitchen.

Ox Restaurant's logo: the letters OX in distressed white type above a stylised ox skull.
Restaurant's own logo · 2026-08-31

Restaurant's own logo · 2026-08-31

Why go

Portland fire-and-meat destination with composed plates, vegan options, and celebration energy.

No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: Official menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change.

Private or semi-private path is on file.

Before you book

Why go, what to order, what it costs, what the room is like, whether it fits tonight, and what you still need to confirm. Where an answer says the restaurant has never stated it, that is their silence being reported, not a gap we intend to fill.

  1. 01Is the food actually good?

    On file

    The restaurant describes itself as Portland fire-and-meat destination with composed plates, vegan options, and celebration energy. That is the restaurant's own description, not a review consensus. Deep Dish does not rank food quality from public reviews.

    Restaurant-owned description · not a quality verdict

  2. 02Is it worth the money?

    On file

    The menu spans small plates, grilled vegetables, seafood, steaks, and larger shared-format dishes. That is the restaurant's published figure, not a value verdict.

    Restaurant-owned pricing

  3. 03What is the overall experience?

    On file

    Energetic neighborhood dining room centered on a visible wood-fired grill and Argentine-inspired cooking through a Pacific Northwest lens. Diner-facing tags on file: intimate, casual, high energy.

    Restaurant-owned atmosphere + recorded bands

  4. 04What do other people think?

    Never stated

    Deep Dish does not collect diner reviews and does not rank rooms by them. What other people think is not a first-party field. Ask people you trust, or confirm with the restaurant.

    Not a first-party field

  5. 05How good is the service?

    On file

    Stated service format: official site states dinner daily from 5pm to 10pm at 2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. That is the restaurant's own description, not a diner-experience pattern.

    Restaurant-stated format

  6. 06How convenient is it?

    On file

    The official site directs guests through its information and booking paths. Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages… Composed dinner typically runs about two hours.

    Booking, arrival, meal length, access

  7. 07What should we ask before ordering?

    On file

    A dedicated vegan menu is published. Before you order: confirm the live kitchen rule with the restaurant.

    Restaurant-owned dietary language

  8. 08What is the menu like?

    On file

    No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: Official menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change. Drinks: separate wine, drinks, and dessert menus are published.

    Restaurant-owned menu language

  9. 09Is it clean and trustworthy?

    Never stated

    The health-inspection layer is empty in this build, so this restaurant has not been checked against one. Cleanliness here comes from an inspection record or from nothing at all. Public reviews are not used as a cleanliness signal.

    Conservative — inspection layer not loaded

  10. 10What makes it different?

    On file

    Private or semi-private path is on file.

    From culinary identity, room, and format on the case file

Table intelligence

What the room is like, what to order and what it costs — each claim taken from the restaurant's own pages or a directory location fact, never from a review sample.

What to order

No dish is named on the restaurant’s own pages. Ask what the kitchen is known for when you call — this is a gap in the file, not a verdict on the food.

Menu formatOfficial menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change.

What it costs

The menu spans small plates, grilled vegetables, seafood, steaks, and larger shared-format dishes. Current item prices should be checked on the active menu.

When you can go

Dinner is served daily from 5 PM to 10 PM.No machine-readable schedule is held, so the instrument cannot tell you whether this room is serving right now.

The tradeoff

Restaurant-owned pages

Energetic neighborhood dining room centered on a visible wood-fired grill and Argentine-inspired cooking through a Pacific Northwest lens.

OccasionCelebration dinner; meat- and fire-focused meal; group dinner; visitors seeking a Portland institution; lively date night.

Public reviews are not summarised here. What the room is like comes from what the restaurant published.

Getting there

Address
2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR 97212
Coordinate
No coordinate is held. Deep Dish cannot state a distance to this room.
Step-free
Not stated on any source held.

The room

Energetic neighborhood dining room centered on a visible wood-fired grill and Argentine-inspired cooking through a Pacific Northwest lens.

DressNo formal dress code was stated on the reviewed first-party pages.

Decision brief

The file is still limited

Situation fit58
Evidence confidence42
Confirm burden82
Fit
Reads 58/100 against a partial situation. Strongest recorded use: date night. Add an occasion to sharpen this.
Evidence
Weakest coverage: Commitment, Price. Those fields were not published, so they are not filled in.
What you still need to ask
1 critical risk: review window has lapsed. 1 watch item, 7 residual unknowns carried forward.
Confirm burden
Confirm burden 82/100 · planning load Heavy · one official conflict open · reviewed 2026-08-05, next 2026-08-12.

Before you choose it

Portland fire-and-meat destination with composed plates, vegan options, and celebration energy. That is what the restaurant says it does, read off its own pages.

Food & menu
Portland fire-and-meat destination with composed plates, vegan options, and celebration energy. Official menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change.
Spend / value
The menu spans small plates, grilled vegetables, seafood, steaks, and larger shared-format dishes. Confirm live before you commit — price is volatile.
Experience
Energetic neighborhood dining room centered on a visible wood-fired grill and Argentine-inspired cooking through a Pacific Northwest lens. Room read: casual, high energy, slower pacing.
Best fit
Celebration dinner; meat- and fire-focused meal; group dinner.
Convenience
The official site directs guests through its information and booking paths. Composed dinner typically runs about two hours. Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party…
Dietary
A dedicated vegan menu is published. A menu marker is not a guarantee of allergy safety — confirm the live kitchen rule.

Recommended next action

Ask the restaurant about commitment, price before you commit. Call (503) 284-3366 in one pass and clear every critical item below; book only after they resolve.

When you are ready

Send Ox to the night plan in Occasion OS, where the rest of the night is being built. Rejected rooms and browsing stay here.

Send this room to the night plan in Occasion OS

What you still need to ask — in order

  1. 01Re-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.
  2. 02Call (503) 284-3366 and ask the conflicted field as a direct question. Keep both recorded claims visible until sources converge; do not adopt the friendlier one.
Official conflict preservedBoth claims remain on the record. Nothing has been collapsed to the friendlier statement.
Why it ranked where it did

Why it ranked here

Fit 58 of 100

This is the opening score for the occasion — 58 of 100 — and nothing you have told us so far has moved it up or down.

Add the party size, your budget ceiling, when you are arriving or where you are coming from, and every term that changes this number will be listed here.

What Deep Dish is watching

For this night

Critical

1
  • Criticalevidence · impact 78 · high confidence

    Review window has lapsed

    Last first-party review 2026-08-05; window closed 2026-08-12.

    DoRe-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.

Watch

1
  • Watchevidence · impact 84 · high confidence

    Official sources conflict — both claims preserved

    CONFLICT field=hours. A: https://www.oxpdx.com/info retrieved 2026-08-02 states Monday-Sunday 5pm-10pm. B: homepage and first-party social retrieved 2026-08-02 state every night 4:30pm-10:00pm. Rule: Do not select the more favorable statement. Reader must confirm live. Last rechecked: 2026-08-02. Close only when official pages converge or outlier removed or written operator confirmation.

    DoCall (503) 284-3366 and ask the conflicted field as a direct question. Keep both recorded claims visible until sources converge; do not adopt the friendlier one.

Unknown

7
  • Unknowndietary · impact 26 · high confidence

    Dietary handling requires direct confirmation

    A dedicated vegan menu is published. Individual allergy accommodation and cross-contact controls require direct confirmation.

    DoConfirm before inviting anyone with a restriction.

  • Unknownaccess · impact 24 · high confidence

    Access honesty marker: route unstated

    Detailed physical-access route and restroom information were not stated in the reviewed first-party pages.

    DoAsk only if a guest needs it; the record does not claim accessibility either way.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Live reservation availability

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Current booking mechanics

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Detailed physical-access route and restroom configuration

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Individual allergy suitability

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownarrival · impact 18 · high confidence

    Parking and transit unstated

    Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages; confirm access for your arrival window.

    DoLow stakes here; check a map before you leave.

Restaurant sources

What the restaurant publishes

Pages read

Every line in the table below came from one of these sources. None of it was assembled out of other people’s reviews.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has never published. Listed rather than filled in. Each one is a question worth asking before you commit to the table.

  • Live reservation availability
  • current booking mechanics
  • detailed physical-access route and restroom configuration
  • individual allergy suitability
Service
Official site states dinner daily from 5pm to 10pm at 2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.; live availability still requires same-cycle confirmation.
Menu
Official menu publishes dinner, dessert, wine, drinks and vegan sections; item availability may change.
Occasion fit
Celebration dinner; meat- and fire-focused meal; group dinner; visitors seeking a Portland institution; lively date night.
Hours
Dinner is served daily from 5 PM to 10 PM.
Reservations
The official site directs guests through its information and booking paths. Live availability should be checked directly before visiting.
Price
The menu spans small plates, grilled vegetables, seafood, steaks, and larger shared-format dishes. Current item prices should be checked on the active menu.
Dietary
A dedicated vegan menu is published. Individual allergy accommodation and cross-contact controls require direct confirmation.
Beverage
Separate wine, drinks, and dessert menus are published.
Groups & private
Private dining is available by inquiry. The menu also supports shared plates and larger-format ordering for small groups. Seating evidence from the restaurant's own pages: Cart 0 Sign In My Account Welcome Menu Private Dining Shop Gallery About Us Sign In My Account Cart 0 Welcome Menu Private Dining Shop Gallery About Us photo Reservations Join Our Newsletter ( 503) 284-3366 hello@oxpdx.com 2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. · Cart 0 Sign In My Account Welcome Menu Private Dining Shop Gallery About Us Sign In My Account Cart 0 Welcome Menu Private Dining Shop Gallery About Us MENU Dinner Dessert Wines Drinks Vegan Join Our Newsletter ( 503) 284-3366 hello@oxpdx.com 2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr.
Atmosphere
Energetic neighborhood dining room centered on a visible wood-fired grill and Argentine-inspired cooking through a Pacific Northwest lens.
Accessibility
The restaurant has never said.
Parking & transit
Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages; confirm access for your arrival window.
Dress
No formal dress code was stated on the reviewed first-party pages.
Typical meal length
Composed dinner typically runs about two hours.
Practical notes
Review the active menu before booking because the restaurant balances meat, seafood, vegetables, and a separate vegan path rather than functioning only as a steakhouse.
Address
2225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR 97212
Conflicting information
CONFLICT field=hours. A: https://www.oxpdx.com/info retrieved 2026-08-02 states Monday-Sunday 5pm-10pm. B: homepage and first-party social retrieved 2026-08-02 state every night 4:30pm-10:00pm. Rule: Do not select the more favorable statement. Reader must confirm live. Last rechecked: 2026-08-02. Close only when official pages converge or outlier removed or written operator confirmation.
Source quality
Official restaurant website / first-party info and menu pages
Confidence
moderate_with_conflict
Freshness
CURRENT_WITH_OFFICIAL_CONFLICTS
Likely to change
Availability, dietary and cross-contact claims require same-cycle confirmation; hours, reservations and price are reviewed within 7 days; menu and access statements within 31 days.
What to verify next
Sources reachable as of 2026-08-05; official conflicts still open — do not collapse to friendlier claim. Reconfirm live before booking.

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