Best food you ever had on holiday?

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Been thinking about how food can be such a big part of holidays and curious to know what food experiences on holiday you have all had?

For me, a proper new york pizza from Prince Street Pizza was incredible.

I had a cajun jambalaya pasta dish in New Orleans which was out of this world.

A clam chowder in Boston away from the tourist area on Newbury Street.

A freshly made chicken club sandwich with egg bacon tomato and the crispiest saltiest french fries for lunch in Ibiza after quite a lot of uninspiring all inclusive food.

Crispy flaky cod and salty chips from New Quay Wales

Prawns in chilli and garlic oil before a perfectly cooked filled steak at Chill Out Restaurant in Tenerife overlooking the sea.

Really good steamed mussels in a little pub in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.

I visited Urth Cafe in Laguna Beach and had a delicious mint chocolate mocha while watching all these super tanned super fit rich people grabbing their morning coffee and it was so fun.

I know sometimes it's all about the location but what food has genuinely been so tasty on your holidays? Love to hear them

The best pizza I've ever had was from an Italian restaurant in San Malo, France. 🤷
In Turkey I ate a stuffed squid dish that was the house speciality and it was so good, went back the next evening and ate it again.
Recently in Norwich had a lunch of steak pudding and veg at the Maids Head Hotel. Was delish.

I think the stand out ones for me are brisket in a BBQ place in Austin and carbonara in Rome

A club sandwich in a hotel in Lake Maggiore and a garlic chicken pizza in Alexandria, Virginia

Pizza just seems to taste the same wherever I go, had Joe's in NY and a few in Italy, all tasty you can't really go wrong, but can't say I've had an experience where I've thought BEST PIZZA EVER!

White truffle and onion flan in a teeny restaurant in Florence.

Sil sister got married in tuscany - most of us made a nice long weekend of it and all stayed in the same hotel in the hills. We all went to the local town the night before the wedding and this place did the most amazing cheese and charcuterie board with truffle honey and the best pizza I ever had! And the bill was only about £20 each - and we had a load of food - was about 15 years ago now!
In Split we went to the local market and bought white peaches and local isle of pag cheese. Went for a long hilly walk - when we took a needed break the cheese, peaches and bread were sooo good. And the beer at a local place on the way back down the hill was also very appreciated!!

This pizza just had something extra for me, it was so salty and savoury and the crust was airy. But I've had excellent pizza in other places than New York of course. Here it is

These holiday food stories are great 👍 making me hungry though

A wonderful pizza in Sardinia which we took out and drove to a beach and ate.

Deep fried baby squid at a little tapas bar in Lanzarote. They were like oceany-chicken skin.

Placemarking 🍕

In Split, Croatia I had a burrata dish as a starter that was just incredibly beautiful. Fresh, delicate. Gorgeous.

Best hot chocolate I ever had was in Venice in 1988. It was so thick, almost syrupy, and very, very chocolatey. I've never been able to recreate it.
Best ice-cream was in Florence a year later - zuppa inglese, which is custard with bits of trifle sponge and jam.
I won't start posting about my favourite meals as I'd fill up the thread!

I had a pasta Napoletana at a restaurant in Cape Town 12 years ago and the flavours were so amazing for such a simple dish. I still think about it. Have tried to replicate and failed dismally.

I have thought of some more...

Calamari and patatas bravas at a little tapas bar on the Costa Brava with my parents (both passed now) my dad had a beer and a cigar and thought it was so delicious

A little hole in the wall (literally) pho place in Falmouth, tons of fresh coriander and great broth

My first chick-fil-a at a Mall in California

A philly cheesesteak sandwich from fat pats in Manchester on a weekend city break with garlic parmesan dip

I think it's in the quality of the ingredients. Tomatoes in northern Europe are tasteless compared to their southern counterparts. I can never quite recreate my favourite Spanish dishes, although I can get close using organic beef tomatoes in the summer.

A perfectly ripe peach, eaten whilst sitting on a rural railway station in Provence. Total heaven.
Many meals at a beautiful hotel in Martel in the Lot - loved them all. Puddings were superb.
Sweetbreads , also in the Lot.
Lemon gelato in Lucca.
Fresh haddock in perfect batter from my local chippy the other week.

Oh sorry scrub round the last one, I wasn't on holiday !

Steak in New York
Tapas in a tiny, not tourist street in a non-touristy town in Spain's Atlantic coast
Fresh fish in Tenerife
Fish & Chips in Devon
Chicken Rice in a local-only mall in Singapore

Kung Pao chicken in Asia Republic, the Atlantis Palm Dubai

8 years ago I had a squid ink truffle risotto in Hvar that I still think about.

@BaronessBomburst

Have you tried Simon Coll? NOT the flakes, the bars. They do one with a hint of cinnamon and it's superb. Full fat milk obvs, and a hint of cream... does the trick for me and thickens nicely. Have a look on Amazon...

An amazing Malabar seafood curry made with the most incredible giant prawns, in a tiny shack restaurant right by crashing surf on the coast of Kerala.

Feta in filo frizzled with honey, on my favourite beach side taverna in Crete.

Chili crab in Singapore - wasn't on hols but there for work and we went out with the local staff. Probably the best thing I've ever eaten.

The ceviche in a restaurant called Patio in Provincetown is gorgeous.

Rather surprisingly the best food I had was when I had a week's stay cruising on a traditional Turkish gulet. Only 10 passengers and 3 crew. The skipper was also the chef. He cooked every day, 3 meals a day in the tiny galley. They were wonderful! Every meal was delicious, meat, vegetables, salads, all cooked and prepared to his mother's recipes. Mediterranean salad also seems nice, but this was really good. He'd buy food from a market boat every couple of days. No choices as such, you just ate what he cooked each day, but I loved it all.