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

Or an oozy gravy filled pork & stuffing bap from 'The Pork Joint in Wolverhampton after every night out during my youth!

Dishoom Covent Garden - Ruby Murray with roti & the chilli ice cream for dessert.

I have a few that stand out:

The Roxburgh, Whitley Bay occasionally have guest chefs. Tables sell out within minutes but we managed to get one for a vegetarian tasting menu by local chef Chris Eagle a couple of years ago. It was amazing (having said that, I've never had a bad meal there) and the atmosphere was top notch. If you're ever in the area give it a try. It's not a veggie restaurant - the owner is known for his nose to tail ethos and it's one for the meat eaters.

Every single meal I had in Krakow was at least a 9/10, very cheap and the service was consistently excellent.

Last one was at Ellis Burger in Amsterdam. It was just - an admittedly very good - burger but we'd been traipsing round for hours in torrential rain after a trip to Anne Frank's house. That meal was the first time since leaving the museum that the kids stopped moaning. It was heaven.

The marghariita pizza I had in Naples decades ago. We asked the staff in the youth hostel where we should go.

The cheese trolley at amaryllis Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Glasgow. Still drool thinking about it.

A most unexpected meal of creamed potato and lamb chops made for me by one of my sons that still has me thinking about it 10 years later. He was in his 30’s when he made it for me one evening and till then he thought he couldn’t cook. He even did a gravy with it and it was better than anything I’ve eaten even in the finest restaurants I’ve been to.

One other meal will also stick in my mind because it was so unexpected on a day I was starving having been ill for a few days beforehand. It was roast chicken, chips, hummus, mutable, salad and bread that I had in a famous roadside family run restaurant somewhere between Beirut and Baalbek a few years ago. It was heaven on a plate.

When I was about 7 or 8 my Aunt took me and my brother to France for the day and we popped into a little tatty bistro type place and I had roast pork, the most amazing gravy and the best french fries ever! I don’t know what the place was called or the town we were in (I don’t even eat meat anymore) but it was the best meal of my entire life!

@TeamSpike

All of the food in the buffet restaurant when I went to the Maldives. All fresh and brought in every day. Curries, steak, fish, Lasagne, all of it amazing. Was 8 years ago and I still think about it

Yes, me too. Amazing fish curry. All the food was incredible.

My late Nana's home made "lumpajack" just cornbeef baked beans and onions with mash on top, can never get it the same as hers,I also love my partners Jamaican nanny's fried chicken🤤 even now in her 80s she still cooks me fried chicken every Saturday

Lamb Incik at the old Bar Meze in Headington years ago. The tenderest, tastiest lamb with crispy little potatoes.

Fergburger in Queenstown, New Zealand

@CushionsandCandles that post birth tea & toast is the thing of gods 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hotel in Andorra, the food was absolutely out of this world. Think it was called the Sportsman

Ooh, also boreks at the Vic Market in Melbourne

Omg 🤤

@VeganVeal

Barbarillian menwasby steak grilled over coals served with latto-basso sauce in a martillian wholemeal grian wrap, used to have them everyday until I had to return to the UK. Miss them so much

Did you make this up???

Barbarillian martillian sounds like it's from SPACE!!! 🚀

The breakfast fruit lasagne at DisneyWorld. Also had the most amazing tuna steak there too.

The mashed potato at a local hospital (which amuses me now as I’m low carb, don’t eat potato and the thought of one makes me feel sick!!)

The pumpkin ravioli at a local Italian.

The freshly caught seafood platter in The Company Shed on Mersea Island in Essex.

A baked potato with feta cheese, first meal I had after having my wisdom teeth out and craving it from a holiday in Greece a few weeks before.

I went to a beach bar in Spain once, they were cooking on a bbq and we had these massive garlicky langoustines straight off the grill. Feet in the sand, glass of sangria, looking out to sea. Marvellous.

@NeedNewKnees The Black Swan was my first thought. Amazing tasting menu with wines.

Very special because dear friends had secretly organised it for a big birthday- a huge surprise and massive treat. I was astounded.

Now I want a feta jacket potato!

A close second was again in Spain...went interailing as a teenager and got off the train hot, sweaty and starving. There was a spit roast chicken place right on the beach with a vending machine selling ice cold lowenbrau. We bought a hot roast chicken, a couple of beers and got stuck in with our bare hands while we watched the sun go down.

Maybe it's just eating at the beach that makes it so special, hard to tell!

Corte Sconta in Venice - everything (including service, surroundings etc not just the food - no menu just selected number of courses) - it was also Carnivale. I dream of that night and the taste of every morsel!

I also like going to Cafe Murano as we only went to Corte Sconta as it was recommended by Angela Hartnet in a Times interview! I feel she is trying to achieve the same (but hey it’s not Venice!)

I also remember the best strawberry ice cream bought from the side of the road farm shop between Gloucester and Chepstow - a taste I continue to seek but never find!

I have more but all of the above will do for my last supper!!

Lunch at the River Cottage canteen in Axminster- everything so fresh and amazing

Oh gosh I have too many!

Every meal on honeymoon (Maldives) but especially the lobster / steak with garlic and shallot cream combo.

A 10 course tasting menu at Maze. I’m always blown away when I get to experience new flavours / tastes. Every course was absolutely stunning.

Fish n chips out of the paper, on a beach - a firm favourite!

And when I’m poorly, I always crave Heinz tomato soup and a cheese toastie - and nothing tastes better than that.

1. The Fat Duck
2. A tuna sandwich in a dodgy cafe in Fuchal, Madeira. Freshly cooked tuna steak, in a fresh Portuguese bread roll, both rubbed with olive oil. It cost 2 euro.