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What was the best dessert or meal you've ever eaten? And where were you when you ate it?

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Orange123 Wed 31-Jan-18 23:08:52

The best dessert I've ever had was a pistachio canolli in a little cafe in Sicily. I'd gladly go back just to taste that luciousness one more time. Mmm...

MissAdventure Thu 01-Feb-18 20:57:22

I'm a huge fan of roast dinners, and the best ever are home cooked ones, so, at mine, my mums, or my daughters. Been some delicious roasts over the years.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Fri 02-Feb-18 09:34:05

In a restaurant in Cancale, Normandy I ate a fantastic Les Isles Flottante which was wonderfully light - just right after whatever else we ate - which I can't remember.

Camelotclub Fri 02-Feb-18 09:39:30

Lindylo
That's a long way to go for dessert after your main!

Camelotclub Fri 02-Feb-18 09:43:10

Best meal was at the Connaught in London for a birthday meal, this was before they mucked it about with famous chefs. Asparagus with freshly made warm Hollandaise sauce.

Best pud. was in a long since closed Italian restaurant in Charlotte Street. It was self service and they did a plate of profiteroles over which they poured chocolate sauce, the consistency of thick custard, not the icing you get nowadays. They were wonderful and not seen them anywhere else.

Camelotclub Fri 02-Feb-18 09:45:39

Just remembered, it was called Tavola Calda.

TwiceAsNice Fri 02-Feb-18 09:50:55

Best meal a 7 course tasting menu in a fabulous Sydney restaurant on a once in a lifetime holiday to Australia. Never to be repeated.

Best dessert large freshly made scone with loads of clotted cream and peach jam

Skweek1 Fri 02-Feb-18 09:54:49

I approve your choice, anniebach - I grew up in Malvern and still horribly homesick! But love Marmite and lettuce sarnies at any time of the day or night - that's something I still make as one of my comfort foods (sadly can't persuade my menfolk to join me. You couldn't believe how rude they can be about Marmite!

SunnySusie Fri 02-Feb-18 10:04:32

Pizza sandwich (I kid you not) from a gas station in British Colombia. We had arrived in Canada on an 11 hour trans-Atlantic flight, got lost three times getting out of Calgary in our hire car and then drove for about six hours without seeing anywhere to buy food. There is a lot of nothing in BC! No way would I normally have considered a pizza sandwich but that one was manna from heaven! Best dessert - Birds Eye original Artic Roll aged about ten. We were not allowed shop bought cakes and desserts, so perversely we wanted nothing else. Granny bought the Artic Roll and we were in heaven. Maybe I have very simple tastes because these are clearly not five star hotel meals! or perhaps its the context more than the food that makes it memorable?

dizzygran Fri 02-Feb-18 10:10:41

Getting hungry reading this!! On holiday in Greece in a hilltop taverna some years ago I had freshly caught grilled red mullet and greek salad (and chips) and DH had lobster sat outside with home made ice cream and baklava after.

Kim19 Fri 02-Feb-18 10:10:53

Many years ago, on my own, I was pavement perusing the menu of a Parisian prestigious restuarant when the Maitre d' came out and invited me in. I was reluctant and said that all I wanted was a Creme Brûlée. He enthusiastically ushered me in and I ended up having two and a coffee. An absolutely unforgettable experience.

Farrsan2003 Fri 02-Feb-18 10:13:47

Scampi and chips in a basket. In 1969 in a country pub in Devon. It was delicious.

Sourcerer48 Fri 02-Feb-18 10:18:29

Peri-peri prawns cooked over a brazier on a pristine beach in Punta do Ora, Mozambique, just after their war ended.
Fresh oysters from the Fish Market in Auckland
Real French onion soup in Montmarte Paris
Pannacotta at the Lion & Rhino Reserve in Johannesburg

acanthus Fri 02-Feb-18 10:18:48

On a family holiday over thirty years ago - a small restaurant in Gozo. It was quite a simple meal - fish, salad, probably chips for the children, and a wonderful house wine. The whole ambience was perfect - sun, sea and flowers. We loved the wine so much we asked if we could take some back to our apartment for later consumption; they happily obliged, but unfortunately poured it into an old Pernod bottle which rendered it undrinkable!

grandMattie Fri 02-Feb-18 10:36:06

Best meal was a salad eaten on the seafront in Oporto. It consisted of lettuce, tomato, onions and cucumber with a simple dressing of lemon juice and olive oil, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heavenly.

Pudding? Easy! Baklava, freshly made ["today by my mum" said the proud young waiter] in a greek restaurant in Canberra. Delicious.

grandMattie Fri 02-Feb-18 10:37:45

Alternatively, a parilla [BBQ] in Calafate, Argentina with Patagonian lamb and a bottle of local merlot. Can't beat that.

Craftycat Fri 02-Feb-18 10:49:40

Weirdly it was liver. Cooked in a family taverna in Pefkos in Rhodes. Just totally delicious. We went back for it 3 times in one holiday. The lovely owner went to butchers specially so we could have it on our last night as it was not on menu every night. We emailed him last year so he could get it in for our first night's meal.Can't wait to get back in July & have it again. I have tried to get it like that myself but it's nowhere near.

Omaoma57 Fri 02-Feb-18 10:54:53

Me too!

Lupin Fri 02-Feb-18 11:06:12

Freshly caught mackerel cooked on a camping stove on a Cornish beach, years and years ago. Have not tasted the like since.
My mum's steak and kidney pudding - oh! that gravy and suet crust. I have not eaten one since she died.
Her bread pudding - rich with fruit and spice - was memorable too.

BRedhead59 Fri 02-Feb-18 11:06:47

A steak in the US in 1980 it melted in my mouth - I've never tasted anything as good since.

nipsmum Fri 02-Feb-18 11:07:49

Mushroom pie in a vegetarian restaurant in Leicester when my daughter was at university there. No dessert , I have diabetes.

Minerva Fri 02-Feb-18 11:11:51

This is easy. A local restaurant in Isfahan, Iran when we were on the long ‘overland’ (there was sea involved) trek back to Blighty from a year in Japan in 1971. The most beautifully flavoured lamb and rice and I have never had a better meal since.

EllenT Fri 02-Feb-18 11:11:54

Spaghetti with garlic, oil and chilli washed down with rough red wine in Coca Cola glasses. Back street bar in a foggy November Venice.

giulia Fri 02-Feb-18 11:26:31

A fruit tiramisù: the savoiardi dipped in pineapple juice instead of coffee and each layer containing chopped fresh fruit as well as the marscapone/egg/sugar cream. Where? Er.... I invented it and ate it in my own home with close friends who loved it

sarahellenwhitney Fri 02-Feb-18 11:34:24

Following a late flight to Jersey CI in 1981 we found a small restaurant where we had fresh crab salad.It was the start of a fantastic weekend I will never forget.

JackyB Fri 02-Feb-18 11:51:06

I've just remembered a tapas bar in Seville, where the speciality was Serrano ham (may have been something more special, such as iberico) and a red wine. The combination was indescribably delicious!