Do you ever reminisce over one particular meal or food you had?!

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7...maybe 8 years ago, I went to a friends house for dinner and she made the most incredible pasta dish. I mean it was out of this world...she moved to New Zealand shortly after and we lost touch but I think of this pasta at least once a month!

Most recent one is I was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago and had cardamom buns from a particular bakery (Juno’s if anyone’s going!) and I've thought about them every single day since. I could actually cry at the thought of how epic they were!

^^its not it's. (Grammar pedant and I'm kicking myself. I just HAD to correct it.)

Freshly made guacamole in a tiny cafe in Bagan, Myanmar. Followed by peanut and tomato curry. Kittens playing around our feet.
Cost a couple of quid.

Spaghetti with lobster in an Italian restaurant in Paris 15 years ago. I still dream of it..

French onion soup with a sort of cheese lid, Brannigans, Orlando 1992. I was 11. I literally had never had anything like it and thinking of it now makes me dribble!

A beef ravioli I had in a revolving restaurant in New York. The sauce with it was incredible

So many. On a boat trip down a mountainous valley near Kyoto, giggling that for the first time we were more than 100 yards from a restaurant, when there was a put-put and a little motorboat turned up, tied itself to our boat, and started grilling Things on Sticks. The seafood was amazingly fresh and the teriyaki and other sauces perfect, and it was amazing.

Also had a special meal at Chez Bruce, ended up ill then off my face on opiates but seemed a shame to cancel. So I remember this delicate thin pasta on tortellini and then the most amazingly orange smooth pumpkin soup, fireworks just outside and the lights all turning it into one big blur, but it was still wonderful.

Sugar sandwiches my paternal Gran made me on Sunday afternoons. Out of sight from my mum!

Cataplana - a Portuguese fish stew I had when on holiday with my mum and dad as a kid. Rich tomatoey and onion stew with all this amazing random seafood, clams prawn in their shells and mussels and who knows what else , in a massive pot they brought to the table, we had crusty bread dunked in it. Id never had seafood before was amazing.

Turkey Burgers from my high school canteen. I can still vividly remember the wrapper and the weird grey colour of the meat but it was so bloody tasty.

Also had a bloody amazing Sailor Jerry's Salted Caramel Brownie from a pub in the east midlands. It was one of the nicest puds EVER, and I'm not a huge swet person.

@Frownette yes it was. It was tiny, just a handful of tables and little stools behind this curtain with the kitchen in the same room with counters around it but the food was incredible. I wish I could have it again, it was one of those dishes that's "simple" but in a way you'd never be able to get close to yourself. Wahhh!

I've been reading this thread to see if there are any London ones cos I'm starving

Fancy that BLT in the cafe under the Shard now!

When I was little we spent summer holidays fishing for whiting and yabbying. We’d eat them in the evening with the most amazing mangoes from our tree for dessert. No other mango will ever be as good. I can still bloody taste it all and wish I could re-live it.

A cold thai steak salad starter at the Kensington Roof Gardens about 20 years ago. I can still taste it.

And butterscotch tart from school days.

Roast lamb at a wedding 10 years ago.
Fish market on Zanzibar, Carnivore restaurant in Kenya both 20 years ago.

Fish tacos I had in San Francisco, nothing else can come close!

Snap! Fish tacos but mine were in Florida. So good!

Also chimichangas at the food court in the basement of Grand Central Station.

And a restaurant in our town that used to make magic nachos. Magic because the sour cream inside was still a bit cold even though the cheese was all lovely and melty. I think they injected the sour cream in a second before leaving the kitchen!!!

I bought a tarteflette pie from a little farm shop in Severn-on-Wye as we were driving to the Forest of Dean. It was the best pie I’ve ever tasted in my life!
I emailed and asked for the suppliers details but they only sold wholesale and the smallest order was for £480 worth. I was tempted but had to pass.

Greek easter lamb cooked over a spit on my ex's brother's balcony in athens. The whole event around preparing the lamb, roasting it slowly all day was so special and then it tasted incredible. Best lamb I'd ever tasted, with all the delicious sides too.

Chilli crab, ilfracombe, 6 years ago.
Go back every year. Espresso bar if you want to know x

A simple steak and dauphinois potatoes in a tiny bistro in Paris. I have no idea where we were as I was with my parents, think I was about 19 so made no effort to think about recording where we were but I often dream about that dinner.

Lechon and deep fried beef ribs at a food court in a mall in Cebu. Mouth watering.

Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina in a restaurant in the marina at Capri. Again, no idea of the name and you'd imagine it to be a total tourist trap but it was full of local families and the food is spectacular.

A mushroom risotto I had in a mountain cafe in the Italian Dolomites about 10 years ago. My dad spent the rest of his life (on and off!) trying to replicate some delicious, creamy scrambled eggs he’d had for breakfast in a cafe in Chartres in about 1980.

On honeymoon in the South of France with XH. We got caught in torrential rain and dashed into the first place we saw - a shabby looking place under a flyover. We dashed in and there was an open fire and a large wet dog, steaming gently.

I ordered four-cheese pasta. When it arrived, it was literally a bowl of linguine, with four cheeses melted into it. Like, whole cheeses - a Brie, a Camembert...some others. Jesus, it was heavenly.

In Mexico this February - salsa verde. Can’t be replicated here. I poured it over everything at breakfast. It’s heavenly over scrambled eggs and quesadillas for breakfast.

Sticky cinnamon buns at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida.

Curried carp at a roadside shack in Malaysia, followed by rice and coconut milk baked in a banana leaf.

And the crab salad I’ve just eaten in Norfolk, followed by orange and almond cake with clotted cream. To. Die. For.

Turkey Burgers from my high school canteen. I can still vividly remember the wrapper and the weird grey colour of the meat but it was so bloody tasty.

@RavenLG I came on here to say this!! I can still picture how they smell and taste and I’d honestly give a kidney to have one of those bad boys again

@BikeRunSki the trick with the ultimate creamy eggs is to do them on the lowest heat possible stirring the whole time and add a handful of cheddar cheese. Delightful!

@Pinkarsedfly I'll try making orange and almond cake, that sounds heavenly