To ask what your perfect, if random, 3 course meal would be?

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You can choose:

1 starter
1 main
1 dessert/cheeseboard with your favourites on
A drink of your choice

Money no object, or calories. Any cuisine or combination which wouldn't normally be served up together

Mine:

Starter: Chicken tikka pieces with fried onions
Main: Fillet steak, cheesy mash, onions and mushrooms cooked in garlic, veg
Dessert: Millionaires cheesecake
Drink: Sauvignon Blanc, preferably Marlborough.

*Terre!

S: Crispy calamari (rings only I don’t like it squid shaped) with garlic dip.

M: fillet steak, cooked rare, with thick home made chips, peppercorn sauce. green beans/broccoli with a dusting of Parmesan on the side.

Cheeseboard: no blue cheese, but Brie, smoked cheddar, Camembert etc with all the trimmings.

Drink: bottle of red - preferably Shiraz or Merlot. Anything but Malbec tbh even though I know technically it goes well with steak.

Foie gras pate
BBQ lobster
Cheese plate inc moody ash goats cheese.
Champagne.

In reality, I don't eat foie gras pate as it's not very nice for the poor goose, I only eat lobster once a year as it takes them 25 years to get to the size we'd eat them. I eat cheese a lot.
I have no other issue eating other animals that are killed and kept humanely though (apart from our lovely fluffy bottomed chickens - ho will be pets long past their laying season)

Scallops with pea purée
Garlic and chilli prawns with salad and French stick
Creme brûlée

Sauvignon blanc

Starter: sliced beef tomatoes with fresh mayonnaise (and the sun shining!)

Main course: sea bass in garlic and lemon oil with diced potatoes and salad

Dessert: Sherry trifle

And a nice bottle of Shiraz.

Potted Shrimps & hot toast

Chicken Paillard with Green Beans and a white wine butter sauce

Crème brûlée

A bottle of Malbec

I’m going all out!

Main lobster roll with battered calamari
Fried chicken with mac n cheese
Cinnabon with cream cheese frosting
Champagne

No starter
Pasta dish (Fresh pesto or puttanesca preferably) and decent green/mixed salad
Profiteroles with extra hot choc sauce and chantilly/whipped cream.
Chilled Diet Coke

Deep fried breaded brie with chilli jam and fresh baguette.

Steak Diane, chips and peas

A trio of chocolate desert

A large glass of Shiraz

Posh crisps and a glass of fizz.

Vegan friendly gyoza.

Vegan biscoff cake. A restaurant near me makes it and it's yummy.

Although I'm jonesing for a proper burger at the moment so if if was eating meat and dairy -

Baked camembert with bread and caramelised red onion chutney.

Five guys cheeseburger all the way with a peanut butter milkshake.

Raspberry and frangipane tart with home made vanilla ice cream.

Huge pile of poppadoms with mango and onions
Roast beef and all the trimmings
Millionaires cheesecake
All washed down with 19 crimes Chardonnay.

I’m not sure starter wise, probably a goats cheese tart and salad or a caprese salad.
Main course bbq food for sure - Jacobs ladder beef rib and tender brisket with coleslaw, fries and maybe some Mac and cheese.
Dessert - lemon tart and cream
Drink - bottle of Prosecco please! 🥂

Starter: Scallops & lobster with garlic butter
Main: Wagyu beef and lots of it
Dessert: Baked vanilla cheesecake
Drink: Fresh lemonade

S: scallops with black pudding
M: platter of fruits de mer, crab, lobster, with green salad and crusty bread
D: cheese - yarg, Cornish blue and Cornish truffle Brie with quince jelly
Champagne

Starter: grilled oscypek (Polish smoked cheese) with lingonberry sauce

Main: freshly caught trout with lemon, pepper and butter, with a side of samphire OR a big bowl of goulash with thick slices of seeded bread

Pud: tres leches coconut cake with passionfruit coulis

Drink: really fizzy water with lots of fresh lime

Start: toast with pate
Main: butter chicken & a whole naan
Dessert: warm chocolate brownie with double cream

Washed down with pepsi :)

Starter: a tricolour salad with really nice mozzarella, juicy tomatoes and plenty of fresh basil.

Main: seafood platter with lobster, crab, oysters, shrimps, tiger prawns, clams, tuna sashimi, mussels, razor clams and all the accompaniments... the works. Nice bread and unsalted butter on the side.

Desert: a melt in the middle chocolate pudding with cream.

Drink: Soda Sisters pineapple and cardomom soda with lots of ice.

Actually I want to change my desert choice to the coconut ice cream and mango jus they used to have in Wagamama.

Chicken Caesar salad

Penne pasta with chicken, bacon & mushroom in a creamy sauce

Salted caramel cheese cake

Margaritas

calamari
cheese
key lime pie

Chablis on tap.

S: Caesar salad with no faffy additions like red onion or slices of orange!
D: zander/ sandre, a river fish I’ve enjoyed in Europe but can’t get here, asparagus along with any veg, and skinny fries
D: sticky toffee with salted caramel ice cream.
2nd D: cheeseboard with good blue cheese and a glass or 2 of port.

Aperitif: two enormous dry gin martinis, olives and warm cheese savouries and a glance up my wife's dress showing a glimpse of her stocking tops.

S: caviar, mostly the big red salmon stuff, freshly salted with a little sevruga, blinis, sour cream and all of the trimmings (gherkins, onion, boiled eggs etc.) iced high quality vodka

M: A huge rib of beef, aged to the point of lesser mortals wanting to throw it away, savagely roasted so that the outside is crisp and dripping, rested until there is a purple and moist interior. Sliced thinly and warm onto greens that soak up the juices with fresh horseradish cream, frites and a jug of the roasting juices and some fresh bread. To drink, a hugely expensive Bordeaux or Australian red selected by someone that knows their shit.

D: Creme brûlée in a large, shallow dish as per the real Cambridge Burnt Cream, a thick, crisp crust, some sun warmed strawberries and raspberries and strawberries on the side. To drink, a Sauternes by the same expert that picked the red. Plus my lovely mum has to be there for the pudding as we have had a creme brûlée pact for the last 30 years

Brilliant thread

Starter pate ...with any posh bread/toast
Mains... steak with all the trimmings
Dessert ... anything chocolatey

Drink... a never ending porn star martini

70's classics-
Prawn cocktail.
Steak, chips, peas and mushrooms.
Black Forest Gateux with single cream.
Irish coffe.