What is the best meal you have every eaten?

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Just that really, either home cooked, restaurant or food hut- anywhere in the world. What’s the best thing you have ever eaten?

I’m sad I can’t have a Katz deli Rueben sandwich everyday and it’s too far for me to go to just for one (New York) although my waist line is probably greatfull

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Kayal in Leicester's stuffed seabass

Omg anything from Kayal! Haven't been for years, definitely putting that in the list for the summer hols...

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Salt has survived. I walked past it today. It's about 100 yards from work.

My best ever meal was a bowl of mulligatawny soup with fresh crusty bread and delicious butter in Hugh Town in the Scillies.

I had been on the Scillonian 3, for 4 hours in an almighty storm, praying for my own death, due to horrendous seasickness. The joy of stable land mixed with glorious food is still with me, 30 + years later.

Peanut pancakes, nasi goreng/lemak and traditional soup in Malaysia

Tom Yum and Tom Kha Thai soup

Tarte flambé in Alsace

Not sure what it’s called, but a German dish with a kind of small pasta baked on a clay dish with cheese. Amazing.

Real Swiss cheese fondue in a tony Swiss village

*tiny

Lobster Mac and cheese in small sea port in New England it was amazing

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Very boring but hope must will relate.....

NHS tea and toast post delivery- ambrosia!!!

Oh my god, totally agree. I had four rounds of toast after delivering my twins, smothered in butter all after a bed bath by two lovely chatty nurses, I cried with gratitude 🙏

Blackened grouper from an ordinary little restaurant in an ordinary mall somewhere in Florida. I ordered it in posher restaurants but it was never as good.

My friend's microwave cheese on toast. I was starving and it was lovely to have a meal made for me for a change.

My mum's chocolate tart. It is so rich and chocolatey. Yuuuummmm!

Cessr salad, baked potato with sour cream and steak on a boat in Mexico.

I’m a proper sweet tooth and I can’t even remember what desert was

It was years ago and it was a Frankie &Benny's black&blue burger.

My home made cottage pie.

Atul Kochhar restaurant on a cruise. Every course was sublime.

The egg custard tart my folks brought to hospital for me after having my appendix out. The hospital food was disgusting. I may have crammed it in in one go while making sex noises .

A pizza in Rome ... the most delicious hand crafted piece of bread with tomato and cheese I'd ever tasted

Mostly home cooked stuff by my mum (miss her a lot!). Especially her twice cooked baked potatoes which had to have garlic salt sprinkled over plus mixed with cheese and onion, her lemon meringue pie (bliss! and not super sweet like Sara Lee's).

One Thai dish at a restaurant. Must have been some sort of veg curry as I don't eat meat and had a load of coconut in it, felt like I could bath in it!

Also a squid starter in an Indian restaurant. Not super spicy but very tasty.

Going to sound extremely pretentious saying this but I splashed out for my dad's 60th and took him on the Orient Express.

The food was divine! I normally hate terrine, but they served a gorgeous terrine (of some concoction) with a beautiful piccalilli (and some other stuff). Every bite was just heaven.

Planning on taking my mum to The Fat Duck for a tasting menu for her 60th (thankfully in a few years time so I can save for it) so will have to see who wins the battle of the fancy food.

In day to day reach the best meal I always lust for is my mum's belly of pork/pansit/spring roll feasts.

Also my mums roasts. No matter how fancy the restaurant, nothing is beating hers and it is a waste of money trying.

Venison stew with herb dumplings at the Zipfer Bier Haus on a snowy NYE in Salzburg.

Going to sound extremely pretentious saying this but I splashed out for my dad's 60th and took him on the Orient Express

I'm so jealous, I'd absolutely love to go on the Orient express!

When I was 5 I came home from hospital after having my tonsils removed and my dad had made homemade mushroom soup. It was the most amazing thing I have ever tasted. His chicken and mushroom soup is a close second place.

Remembered another. There used to be a restaurant in Bradford that had quite a posh upstairs, then a cellar where you could get a takeaway or eat in for about a fiver (this was 20 odd years ago). You'd see them cook your food in front of you. They did an amazing Madras curry, the best I have ever tasted, with naan, a chapati and a can of Diet Coke ... set me up proper for a night on the tiles when I was young enough to enjoy such a thing.

Sainsbury's café fish and chips. Such a shame that it's a coffee bar now.

Roast chicken, chips and salad made by the owner of a block of apartments my grandma lived in in Santa Ursula, Northern Ternerife.

Apartment block, restaurant below- locals only really due to Santa Ursula being so small and off of the beaten tourist track. Both owned by Domingo, a great host and wonderful cook.

We visited when I was young many many times a year and ate some wonderful food. That is the one meal that has stayed with me and will forever.

Lemon and vinegar and oil were involved, I have tried so so many times to recreate that taste but I have failed. And I'm a damn chef.

I visited Paris with girlfriends and we booked a local lady to take us on a food tour around the city, mainly hidden gems and local backstreet places rather than the touristy places. We gathered all of our purchases and then sat in a local park and ate it all alfresco like a picnic.

We sat on the ground in a circle and shared fresh baguette, tapenade, pate, oysters, pan au chocolate, macrons and shared a bottle of cote en Provence rose wine

It was the most delicious food I’ve tasted and one of my happiest memories 😊

Just remembered a food tasting tour in Rome. Bliss. Went to several cafes, restaurants, delis and a street pizza place. Oh and then gelato. Everything was delicious. The wine was lovely. Sounds hideously touristy but there were only a handful of us doing it and the guide and people on the stops were brilliant.

I have no idea though why a teetotal vegetarian family with two young kids came along... more wine for me and the other woman on the tour!

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A simple but amazing Cacio e Pepe in a little restaurant in Trastevere area of Rome. I’ve tried and miserably failed several times to recreate it at home.

If you look at the Stanley Tucci programme on CNN about Italian cooking, when he visited Rome he had a cacio e pepe that looks amazing. Apparently the secret is 70 - 30 ratio of pecorino to parmesan.

Oooh mine wasn’t posh but was definitely delicious. An Asian noodle dish from a place in the upper west side in New York City right by Central Park. It was kind of coconutty and kind of spicy with chicken veg and noodles and a sauce. Oh It tasted out of this world after a day of walking the whole city. I’ve eaten so much Asian food since then but nothing has ever come close to that dish taste wise. It was in the 90s too so I guess the restaurant long gone let alone the chef. Memories.

Loving reading these. I suppose mine would be the breakfast I had in a clifftop cafe in Kefalonia overlooking the beach. Fresh ripe melon, the thickest, creamiest Greek yoghurt I've ever had in my life and local honey. We were surrounded by pots of flowers and bees and the glorious sunshine. We helped the waiter write the blackboard in English, he was very sweet.
Cooking mackerel I'd caught myself in a smoker and eating it with fingers - sublime.
Probably Rick Stein or Quaglinos for restaurant meals - that ages me a bit!