Best food you ever had on holiday?

[Itsdare]

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

Fresh grilled sardines, bread, salad and beer served on picnic tables on the quayside at a port in Northern Spain - I can't remember exactly where unfortunately. The fish were literally fresh off the boat. Simple, but absolutely delicious.
And pizza in a backstreet pizzeria in Rome when I was inter railing as a student. It was probably fairly ordinary pizza actually but we'd just had a rather traumatic experience and the restaurant owner and his wife took us under their wings and made us feel safe so I'll always remember it as the best pizza in the world.

Tapas restaurant in Alicante, unexpected first class food and the best octopus ever.

I’m divorced now.

But the mussels I had on honeymoon in Whitby were👌

Seafood platter in Portugal. In fact most seafood in Portugal.

Cheesy fresh ravioli on a bitterly cold and rainy day in a restaurant in Capri, just what I needed at the time! The best pasta I ever had though was in a restaurant in Hanoi! Gorgeous chestnut filled capelleti!

Aubergine fritters and spanakopita, in Rethymnon Crete.

Calves liver, just outside Limoges.

Potato pancakes and reindeer in Krakow.

Soupe de poisson in Marseille

Boar ragu in Lucca

Thai basil and chilli stir fried chicken and rice from a street food market in downtown LA. Have since tried it at several other Thai places but none have been anywhere close!

Crab sandwiches on the Northwest Pacific coast of USA.

Fish and chips in Devon.

Had an incredible Indian meal around 20 years ago in Paris that I still think of fondly.

Chicken, waffles and gravy in a grungy diner in Seattle.

Sushi in Cape Town, and the best coffee I've ever had. Also had this incredible croissant French toast with peaches, strawberries and praline, which came smothered in custard - it was an unreal, decadent breakfast.

Prawn curry from a living room restaurant in Mauritius. A surreal experience but amazing food.

A sausage, artichoke and Parmesan pasta from a trattoria in Florence. Incredible. And a tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza from a market in Florence too, with an Aperol spritz on the side.

And this amazing lasagna from a proper "red sauce" Italian American restaurant in LA. Unreal.

God, that's looks nice.

Spit roasted Suckling pig in Sardinia - the thought of it makes my mouth water. Baked goats cheese with honey in Gaucin in Spain. Goulash with potato pancakes in Budapest. Salmon tartare with apple sorbet in Garda - it was so fresh and delicious. We had an amazing curry in Berlin the other week - chilli paneer was to die for and fabulous naan breads. I've had pizza in Naples but it never stood out as any different from anywhere else.

Local Chippy doesn't count! Not on holiday 😉

Sounds delicious though!

Now this all sounds so so good to me, people think US food is garbage. They are just eating in the wrong places

Yes @Itsdare , if you only ever eat burgers or pizzas, or at chains in the USA then most of the time it will be crap. But if you eat decent seafood on the coast or take advantage of the fact that America is a country with a rich history of immigrants moving there who have brought their amazing food along, you won't go far wrong. And the occasional In 'n Out burger can't hurt either! 😊

Mexican breakfast tortillas in playa del carmen

Real belgian waffles in Verne

Bizarrely, a vegetarian pasta dish in a french style cafe in SF California followed by a stem ginger creme brulle.

Fish and chips in Perth WA.

Cooked to order, served in a little box with lemon wedges, eaten whilst sat on a little jetty watching the sun set.

A prawn curry served in a pineapple shell in a plantation house restaurant in Mauritius.
A lobster spaghetti and home made ice cream in a restaurant down a ropey looking back alley in Cape Verde.
Swordfish from a shack in a carpark in Barbados, served with the best coleslaw I have ever eaten.

Venison stew with herb dumplings at the Zipfwr Bierhaus in Salzburg, NYE 2010.

Philly cheesesteak in a mall in Houston

Some noodle soup off a stall on top of a moped in Chiang Mai

$10 lobster in Belize

Now you have got me thinking, and my mouth watering. I love tuna on the continent, just waved over the heat so it is almost raw, not found anywhere that does that in the UK. Most memorable for this? A tapas bar in Ronda, on a side street opposite McDonalds. I ordered Salmon, but that wasn't available, so we switched to Tuna, a good choice. Same fish in a restaurant in La Rochelle last year, and this year, in a restaurant in the centre of Nerja. All really good. We had some lovely mussels in a beach bar in Nerja, and a beautiful Cod Au Gratin, again in a beach side restaurant in Nerja. I had the best dessert ever in a restaurant called Au Parloir in St Martin de Re last year, it was basically a chocolate fondant, but beautifully cooked and presented.

Foie Gras in Brantôme, Perigord, France.

Roast goat in a Parador in Spain, steak in Buenos Aires and octopus in a beach bar that only does octopus in southern Spain.

On holiday with a girlfriend in what was Yugoslavia.

We ordered the Seafood Platter for 2, with chips & salad, & a bottle of wine.

Half way through the second bottle, we tried asking the waiter where was our lunch. He pointed at the sea, there was a boat coming in to land their catch !
Can't get much fresher than that - truly delicious.

Mushroom risotto from a mountain restaurant in the Italian Dolomites.

Lobster roll from a tiny takeaway in a harbour on Martha's Vineyard.
Garlic clams and grilled octopus in Nerja.
Pizza in Naples accompanied by a bottle of wine with no label from the slopes of Vesuvius.

Francesinha in Porto
Gyukatsu in Nara
Takoyaki from a hole-in-the-wall in Osaka
Lobster soup with bread and butter in Reykjavik
These deep fried sandwiches in Tokyo.
I realise that none of these are light options. 😂😂

We went to Morocco and stayed at this amazing place called Berber Lodge towards the Atlas Mountains. They had no menu and cooked what was grown in their gardens and local meat. You basically ate what they served you - best food I have ever had and a gorgeous place too.