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

[ItsAliveItsElectric]

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.

*coffee.

1. Pizza express bruschetta
2. Tinned spaghetti on toast with grated cheese on top
3. Viennetta

I’m super classy

Starter: Best ever prawn cocktail.
Main: seafood platter including lobster, Carabineros shrimp, giant prawns, squid, clams etc with garlic butter and mayo to dip. salty Frites.
Dessert: Lemon tart with clotted cream
Drink: Diet Coke.

Mussels with crusty bread
Fillet steak (rare) with peppercorn sauce, dauphinois potatoes, mushroom and asparagus (and that onion loaf thing that Miller and Carter do)
Strawberry pavlova
Villa Maria

Death row meal!

@PunkStrumpet your attention to detail is on par with a professional food critic's write up! Sounds bloody lovely

Nachos with all the cheese, guac, sour cream, salsa toppings

Fillet steak with blue cheese, pepper sauce, onion rings AND chippy chips

Some type of chocolate pudding/chocolate mousse

Cold Vimto with ice

@ItsAliveItsElectric thanks, I spend a lot of time daydreaming about fantasy menus. Forgot coffee and Armagnac with a few Bahraini dates and After Eights (no substitutes allowed)

Then off for all of us to seats at the bar for Negronis, Old Fashioneds, water between glasses, talking a load of old shit and love all around

Prawn cocktail
Roast beef, Yorkshire pud and trimmings
Blackberry and apple crumble with custard

Bottle of red wine

Oh I love seeing some of the options (and am
Now super hungry!) As calories don’t count I am also magically discounting intolerances so I can happily eat stuff that in real life now makes me poorly (but which I miss so much).

Starter - scallops, pea puree, black pudding, pea shoots. Lovely glass of perfectly chilled (but not too cold) white white. Preferably chablis.

Main - dressed crab salad (little gem lettuce, cucumber, radishes, heritage tomatoes, micro herbs, must all be brilliantly fresh) with homemade aioli, lightly spiced sweet potato fries. Served with Pinot Grigio.

Dessert/cheese - Roquefort, English pecorino, truffled Brie, quince paste, oatcakes and water biscuits (like the Carr’s ones), grapes and a fresh red apple. Copious amounts of port.

Starter, whole dressed crab with crusty white bread, salted butter and lemon wedge to squeeze.

Main, pan fried skate wing with black butter and capers, served with chips. Side order of proper mushy peas.

Pudding, panna cotta with strawberries steeped in Marsala

Cheese, to include a very stinky live Brie de meaux and Stilton with a nice dollop of home made damson chutney.

Bottle of Chablis

Starter - mushrooms and Stilton on garlic toast, couple of G&Ts
Main - tofu Thai ‘drunken noodles’, heavy on the chilli.
Pudding - cappuccino mousse

Plenty of dry white wine to wash it all down 😊

Lobster salad
Roast beef dinner with cauliflower cheese, roast parsnips, cabbage, carrots and lashings of red wine gravy.
Deep fried Mars Bar ( tried one under protest last week and OMG!)
Vodka and tonic.

I get full really quickly in real life so I'm going for the most fillingly calorific options that I'd never be able to manage altogether IRL

Pre-starter (cheating obvs): cheese straws and champagne
Starter: a whole Camembert with baby potatoes and gherkins and some really good charcuterie
Palate cleanser: a green salad with really, really good french dressing, the kind you get in wee bistros in France and you're like 'how is this so good, it's just oil and vinegar?'
Main (switching gears now); a super-luxe, super-spicy curry. Something like lobster tails charred with chilli and garlic. And lots of sides: naan, cauliflower bhaji, more naan, saag paneer, mushroom pakora
Pudding: really dark chocolate fondant

Post-dinner snack: a pizza.

This is the best thread ever,

Mussels in a cream and white wine sauce
Steak and salad
Ben and jerry's Netflix and Chill'd
Champagne

Starter: Tiny pizza bites with various toppings

Main: A vegetarian burger with a side of macaroni cheese and twice-fried chips.

Dessert: A selection tray of little desserts including a Belgian waffle with toffee sauce and ice cream; three tiny Krispy Kreme style doughnuts; a brownie and a Danish pastry with crème anglaise

Starter - sweet and spicy glazed brussels sprouts.
Main - chicken in a lovely cream, white wine and tarragon sauce with pasta and garlicky spinach.
Dessert - some kind of delicious flourless dark chocolate cake with a really tart raspberry coulis.
Drink - a very cold Chablis.

Perfect! Now I’m hungry.

Oh and a 'Walter' to drink; which is like a white Russian made with chocolate milk!

(Vodka, Kahlua, Chocolate milk)

Potted shrimps with brown bread and butter
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Tandoori lamb chops with onion bhajis
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Tiramisu
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Champagne

wagamama tori kara age (I think it's spelt!)

Five guys cheeseburger with lettuce, pickles, onions, mustard, ketchup and Cajun fries

Apple crumble and custard

Appletiser to drink

Prawn cocktail
Fresh griddled tuna steak pink in middle, crispy fries, salsa and salad
Hot fudge sundae

Champagne!

Crispy duck pancakes. Heavy on the spring onions.

Steak cooked medium-rare, with dauphinois potatoes and maybe some pan-fried green beans with garlic and pancetta.

Proper coffee and boozy tiramisu.

Despite being ridiculously fat, I’d only be able to manage two courses in any one sitting though. Maybe save pudding for supper?

Beef carpaccio with truffle mayo and rocket
A proper Italian pizza allo zola (Gorgonzola pizza)
Chocolate tartufo

Lots of wine, red.

I miss Italy.

Starter: Spicy chilli crab cakes with coleslaw.

Main: Ribeye steak (medium) with caramelised onion, garlic mushrooms, chunky chips and simple leafy salad.

Dessert depends on mood for savoury or sweet -
Sweet: Blackforest Gateau
Savoury: Cheeseboard - Brie, Red Leicester, Blue Stilton, with peanuts, dried apricots, and grapes.

Drink: Sangria

I'm so ready!

Starter: Prawn cocktail
Mains: Chicken vindaloo, pilau rice and peshwari nan
Desert: Sticky toffe sponge with loads of custard

Pina colada to drink

Onion bhaji
Steak, sweet potato fries, coleslaw, fancy salad or fancy steamed buttered veg
Chocolate cake and ice cream
Diet Pepsi or red wine to drink