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Sayler's Old Country Kitchen is a
steakhouse A steakhouse, steak house, or chophouse is a restaurant that specializes in steaks and chops. Modern steakhouses may also carry other cuts of meat including poultry, roast prime rib, and veal, as well as fish and other seafood. History Choph ...
in
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's Hazelwood neighborhood, in the United States.


Description and history

Established in 1946, the restaurant has hosted a 72-ounce steak challenge since 1948. The challenge lets people eat for free "if they can consume every edible part of the steak plus two celery sticks, two carrot sticks, two olives, two dill pickles, one regular salad, ten french fries or one baked potato and one slice of bread within an hour". 640 people had successfully completed the challenge, as of December 2016. Sayler's has also served
chicken fried steak Chicken-fried steak, also known as country-fried steak, is an American Southern breaded cutlet dish consisting of a piece of beefsteak (most often tenderized cube steak) coated with seasoned flour and either deep-fried or pan-fried. It is a ...
. The restaurant once had a rotating sign showing a steak, which has been replaced by a stationary sign. Sayler's has been managed by three generations of the Sayler family.


Reception

In 2016, Sayler's was named Portland's best steakhouse in ''
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'' People's Choice poll. The newspaper's Michael Russell ranked Sayer's number ten in his 2016 list of the city's best steakhouses. In ''
Willamette Week ''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture. History Early history '' ...
'' 2016 overview of the city's best East Portland restaurants, Matthew Korfhage said the restaurant "looks like the lobby of a Red Lion but has the community feeling of a summer camp that lasts forever". He also described the steak challenge as Portland's most famous food challenge. In 2018, Kashann Kilson of
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recommended Sayler's for a "feel for Old Portland".


See also

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List of steakhouses The following is an incomplete list of notable steakhouses. Chain restaurant steakhouses North America * Black Angus * Bonanza Steakhouse * Capa, Orlando, Florida * The Capital Grille * Charlie Brown's Steakhouse * Claim Jumper * D' La ...


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