What is the best meal you have ever had?

[Joey1471]

As the worst meal thread has lot of responses , thought I would start the best meal you have ever had

For me - got to be my mums home made Shepards pie or the first chicken burger and fries I had from KFC.

Tea, toast, baked beans. About 5 hours after having my first DC.

Best meal ever!!

On honeymoon in Boston

Green lipped mussels in an amazing sauce
Clam chowder
Lobster roll

Tffta- yours sounds heavenly!

Mine aren't as cut and dry as worst meal- because good food is so intrinsically mixed with emotion, and is really connected to environment and the moments it is enjoyed in. But my top three would be

1. A steak kebab in Portugal, served rare and with thin thin fries, and sherry. The weather was cooling and sitting overlooking the beach as the sun set with good sherry and each element of a simple meal, being made to perfection was idyllic.

1. Christmas dinner in a restaurant on Christmas Day 2007. I chose beef and had the most succulent rib of beef with a horseradish Yorkshire pudding. Real horseradish sauce- hot enough to sting, and the roast potatoes that lived up to the dream of silken insides wrapped in a lightly salted crispy shell. There were mince pies for dessert, served with cream thick enough to be cut with a knife. I'd give my left leg to be able to recreate that meal - okay maybe just a toe or two

1. A lobster Thermidor I ate in a very dark and gloomy cafe in Cardiff. I had low hopes and it was high prices which made the enjoyment all the more when it turned out to be the lobster of my life. Thick flavourful sauce, crispy in parts, unctuous throughout. A truly perfect lobster

Wild boar ragu with tagatelle in a gorgeous restaurant in Rome in my honeymoon.

A chicken and leek bake I had 12 hour after DD was born 🙈

My first "adult" meal at McDonald's - a plain double cheeseburger 😍 best McDonald's I've ever had. I remember being 11 and going into town with my friends for the first time without our parents and going to McDonalds and loving it!

Tffta - I was also going to say clam chowder and lobster I had in Boston. Are you my exDH?

Also the toast I had in hospital after my DTs were born. I hadn't eaten for over 24 hours, I had fasted, my blood pressure kept dropping and they wouldn't let me eat straight after. the toast they gave me the next morning tasted like heaven.

White sightly soggy hospital toast with tons of butter.

In a little restaurant in France about 30 years ago. Fillet steak with a creamy mushroom sauce and gorgeous thin fries. It knocked the socks off any steak and chips I've ever had in the UK or anywhere else.

Went to an amazing steak restaurant with my OH and had a perfectly cooked fillet steak, half a lobster and the most amazing fries with rosemary salt. Dessert was a spiced chocolate orange ganache and it was AMAZING

After an op that had gone wrong, I eventually woke in the middle of the night, and a lovely nurse brought me tea and toast with apricot jam... it was divine.

Fresh ha!! No I’m female!!!

Boston awesome for seafood though, eh?

Years ago, with exH, pre-kids, we drove around Scotland stopping wherever we liked and visiting anywhere we fancied. It was late September and out of tourist season so almost everything (including even public toilets) was closed. On Skye we wandered down to the harbour and there was a fish and chip shop with a few tables (all empty). The waitress was the same person who was working behind the counter in the takeaway shop. I ordered mussels. She sighed, stomped off to the back of the shop, returning with a bucket, turned the 'OPEN' sign to 'CLOSED' and went off along the quayside, returning after 10 minutes with a bucketful. They were served simply with a little garlic and bread in a puddle of seawater and wine. I have spent the next 30 years on and off trying to reclaim the freshness and flavour of those mussels straight off the ropes and failed. My mouth is watering at the ancient memory.

Tftta - definitely. Boston is my favourite US city.

Deep fried lobster and fries from a clam shack on Cape Cod - it was fresh, crisp and not at all greasy. We had to go a liquor store for a bottle of wine to go with it because supermarkets there don't sell booze.
Duck confit with straw potatoes on holiday when I was about 14.
Aubergine fritters on another holiday in my teens.
First Chinese meal for someone's birthday when I was about 11 - it was all new and different and tasty.

A seafood linguine in Italy. Just a little inexpensive restaurant. Our expectations were low. They made it fresh obviously and brought it to the table in the pan to share , it was all garlicky and genuinely the most delicious meal either of us have ever had.

Years ago in Rome, ElMondo..... heaven, heaven, (over-stuffed) heaven on plates... so many fabulously simple courses that I'm still thinking about.

The one I enjoyed the most was definitely post-section toast and strawberry jam.... my god that was so good.

A Chinese takeaway eaten by the sea with my then boyfriend after him being away for a week. I has been so sad (first time apart, lol) and I think that was the first meal I could properly stomach in days.

The first time I tried jalapeno poppers. Man...😍😍

A soba noodle smoked tofu with chilli garlic sauce recipe I made the other night. My DH literally licked his plate clean

My oldest friend took me to a Japanese restaurant for a birthday (22? 23?) It was a proper Japanese restaurant, aimed at the Japanese fishermen and diplomats who frequented our home town (Wellington, NZ) This was in the late 80's when the restaurant scene was only just starting.

We sat in the tatami mat section and had the tasting menu. I'm allergic to fish and seafood, but they catered for this wonderfully. I still remember the sheer delight and joy of finding food that I simply had never tasted before. I've eaten in some fantastic and adventurous places since, but nothing compares to that experience.

She's still my best friend.

Flowering onion starter at the Dudley arms. Omg I could eat and eat this.

1. chilli crab in Singapore. (Pretty much everything I ate in Singapore was incredible)

1. Steak and fries in a pub at the bottom of a mountain after hill walking in the rain for 12 hours. Actually the two slices of white bread, marg and plastic ham I had sitting under a bush half way through that walk was pretty ambrosial too.

Le Gavroche... sublime

So many! Grilled fish with lemon in Lisbon in 1988, the whole amazing dinner at El Cellar de can Roca in Spain, my nan’s stew eaten in a cup in front of the fire when I was little, my first seafood linguine in the south of France, crisp butties with cheese and onion and white bread. I love food!

My was in Skye also.

The Old School House - beef to die for
and also The Three Chimney on Skye - taster menu out of this world, couldn't fault anything especially the whisky marmalade pudding (honeymoon)