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

@Wineat5isfine - Heinz tomato soup for me too with crumpets or toasted English muffin.

Oistin’s Friday night fish grill in Barbados .. completely delicious I wish I could have another plate of that regularly. A jacket potato in Greece .. sour cream butter herbs and a juicy delicious steak - incredible. Every mouthful succulent and delicious.

A tasting menu by a chef in Florence. One dish was the strangest thing, he'd taken potatoes and turned it into a kind of sous vide spaghetti and served with garlic oil and a simple Pomodoro sauce made with just picked tomatoes. On the side was a tiny Cod piece baked under a cheese sauce and a small piece of piglet with a blackberry and honey jus.

My mouth literally made a stupid amount of saliva and every forkful was an utter explosion of flavour.

Second is some jacket potatoes I had covered in sour cream and spring onions after hiking the Yorkshire peaks (and getting lost for over 10 hours... in January). We ate like absolute savages when we got back. My brother ate his bite after stolen bite while sat in a burning hot shower.

Thought of another one. Dinner in Florence at a place I saw nigella Lawson recommend with an ex. Full of boring Americans all ordering steak and complaining about the amazing but perhaps unusual menu and the rather relaxed booking policy and brusque servers.. We asked the staff to bring whatever they recommended. And oh boy it was amazing. Some sort of rabbit Ragu, the most amazing cured meats. It was delicious but made by sitting next to an Italian couple that were visiting from elsewhere, listening to their stories, ordering more food they recommended. And also when they brought the bill it was cheap! So much more food and so good compared to the steaks that were obviously expensive. I think the staff liked us as we got into it and enjoyed serving people who wanted to try everything!

And another - I was in Athens alone and went to a sausage type place in a dodgy part of town. The atmosphere was incredible and full of couples but I sipped my wine, ate whatever was brought to me and soaked it up.

Thanks for this thread op, it's prompted me to think of great times I've had!

[quote evtheria]@VeganVeal I actually googled that.[/quote]
And trust me they are a good as they look

Our last night in Italy, we found this little restaurant, just down a smal street, away from it all. That carbonnara will always stay with me.

Sometimes the best is just perfect ingredients with no fuss. Like the perfect Greek salad, in santorini. The tomatoes, the feta, the olive oil. No frills just divine.

Otherwise in Geneva there is a restaurant on a rooftop that does fusion Japanese. They have these little sushi things which are composed of crispy rice with tuna tartare on top and a sweet chilli mayonnaise. I cannot explain how divine these things are.

CushionsandCandles
Very boring but hope must will relate....
NHS tea and toast post delivery- ambrosia!!!

I hear you! The first tea and toast I had the day after my c section and lots of sleep was divine!

Living in Italy I'm spoiled in this regard, but just recently I was recovering from a migraine and ordered arrosticini (grilled lamb skewers), chips and a can of Coke from a local takeaway. OMG. I felt like I'd been raised from the dead.

I also remember stopping in at a random hotel in Glasgow for lunch and having a haggis fritter on cheddar mash with a whisky sauce. I could have wept, it was so beautiful.

A feta cheese dip with warm pitta type bread to dip into it followed by the most delicious vegetable risotto in a restaurant in the mountains of Kosovo. I have never forgotten how good that meal tasted.

Followed closely by blueberry pancakes with an orange syrup in a hotel in Canada.

I am a veggie with simple tastes .

Mussels in a cream sauce on the seafront in a tiny village on the North Yorkshire coast….a sublime and unforgettable experience. Cost pennies but the setting, company and taste was perfection ❤️

Barbecued sardines, caught an hour or so earlier, cooked by a friend of my Dad's, in Gruisson South of France.

I had caesar salad followed by kedgeree at The Ivy once - they were both gorgeous. The kedgeree came with one of those huge silver domed covers over it to keep it hot.

The meal my dh cooked when I got home from 5 days in hospital after having dd. Steak, chips, salad. He's not a brilliant cook but it was so yummy after hospital food and I was starving.

I haven't been to loads of fancy restaurants - can't bring myself to spend that sort of money! Anything over £100 a head for dinner with wine is just too much for me.

1970s summer holidays, Mum took me and my brothers swimming at Swanley pool. Afterwards, as usual we were starving so Mum stopped the car at a little greasy spoon cafe where they had just made a fresh batch of homemade jam doughnuts and bought 4 and we sat in the car and ate those warm, crispy jam oozing doughnuts and it was utter heaven. We talked about those doughnuts for years afterwards, but sadly never returned to the cafe.

This is very, very embarrassing because I’ve eaten in some very fancy places and had some incredible food but…
A few Christmases ago, I had a “Christmas burger” from a chain pub and I’ve thought about it regularly since.
Other than that
Calamari and paella in Mijas
Lemon gelato in Verona

A lasagne in Delrio's in York. The best I've ever had and a lovely little venue.

I live in Italy.
The best lasagne I have ever had, and I order it every time I go there was in Canterbury.
Best fish and chips from a chippy in Nottinghamshire which used lard to fry in and the guy went to Whitby every other day to fetch the fish.
Other stand out meals were a Chinese in New York and a sole with olive butter in Whitstable.

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A lasagne in Delrio's in York. The best I've ever had and a lovely little venue.

@CushionsandCandles me too! Love a bit of hospital toast. It must be really cheap bread and really cheap margarine. But my, it's the stuff of the gods.

I still fondly remember the pudding we had on the first day of school camp at a youth hostel somewhere in Herefordshire when I was about 10.

It was a sort of mincemeat crumble, sweet, sharp, dense and crumbly all at once, with a lake of thick custard. Not only was it a sticky, delicious, filling plate of stodge, my mind was blown that you could use something other than fresh fruit for a crumble.

These are amazing thank you.

I’ve thought of another one. My mate and I left the club early once as it was crap and bought kebabs and went back to her kitchen and listened to our old music from our teens and ate the kebabs and danced and laughed all night. We still talk about those chicken shish kebabs 😂

I was on a really messy girls holiday in Ibiza once and on day 5, I was a complete mess. Hungover, I hadn't eaten in 5 days and I felt dreadful. The other girls stayed in bed and I went and lay by the pool and I must have looked like a mess because a couple nearby (same age as my parents type couple) asked if I was ok and I said I was poorly but it was self inflicted and they look me to a local English pub for a roast dinner and it just resurrected me 😂😂 I felt better and better with each mouthful! That was 15 years ago and I still remember it 😂

My grandma's Sunday lunch cooked on a coal fired Yorkshire Range, she later had an aga installed, it was still good but not as good. She was a bad tempered old bugger but a great cook.

Asparagus and cream cheese ‘doorstop’ butty from a sandwich shop in Salisbury.

Private dining at Le Gavroche. Incredible.

A côte de boeuf at Les Crocs Des Ogres in Paris. They had a butcher counter to choose your own meat. And it was amazing.

Mind you, the burger at The Spotted Pig in New York is a close third (and much cheaper than those things)

In a Spa. It was mushroom linguini. I actually married the Chef