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

oldgoat
Priceless ???

Two meals.
One at The Winter Gardens Blackpool aged 8 ...?..65 years ago.
We had a private room where we were told the then King and Queen had dined, all wood panelled walls, starched napkins and silver service. Food came in tureens and roast beef was carved at table by waiters. We had roast pork and apple sauce too and huge Yorkshire puds with lots of greens, carrots, parsnips, mashed and roast potatoes and jugs of gravy. Puddings were a whole apple pie and a large dish of proper rice pud (with skin on) plus jugs of custard and cream. The food was not pre plated. We helped ourselves from all the food laid out and as many times as we wanted. There were just 4 of us but by golly...we did it justice.
T'other meal was roast chicken breast stuffed with haggis with boiled potatoes, no veg. Princes St, Edinburgh, New Year, when KD Lang headlined the Hogmanay party. We stayed at The Albany, Albany St.

Jellied beef consomme at posh hotel on my wedding night. Never had it before or since, but absolutely delicious!

No AlisonKF
Some of us can't resist lowering the tone.

Oh dear! What a well travelled, middle class group we are.

My best meal ever was many years ago in Malta, our family's last night of the holiday. Wandering the resort we came across a tiny restaurant which looked interesting. Some of us are vegetarians & the lovely waitress said they could cook whatever we'd like....& they did. The Russian chef cooked us a dozen fabulous dishes. With free drinks, we stayed several hours, were the only customers & were totally spoiled by the chef & waitress who sat chatting with us. We eventually left with hugs & promised to return...which we did next holiday. Sadly the restaurant had closed down & the couple had gone back home...I've often wondered what happened to them!

Fresh caught eels, then smoked over oak shavings in a boat yard in St Osyths ( Essex)
Divine!!!

Fish cakes, chips and peas at a maternity home. After having had nothing to eat for 48 hours (nerves, then labour) it was like nectar!

At a taverna at the top of the Samaria Gorge in Crete in the early 1980s. A rustic meat stew (?goat) followed by Greek yogurt and local honey, before walking down the gorge the following morning.

Fruits de mer at The Oyster Box, St Brelade's Bay Jersey.

Dover Sole, caught, prepared and cooked on the beach by my late uncle John!

A wild mushroom risotto in a back-street café in Verona. Easily the cheapest and least pretentious meal I've had in Italy.

Many many years ago staying with friends on a farm someone went outside and dug up some new potatoes which they cooked and we sat and ate them out of the pot with lashings of butter. They were absolutely delicious......but maybe the whole magical impromptu experience colours my memory!

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Me too!

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.

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

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.