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

I had a wonderful pudding only last week: panna cotta with carpaccio of pineapple with fresh lime juice and chilli. Sounds odd? The vanilla panna cotta was perfect in flavour and texture and the shavings of pineapple were soaked in the lime juice and speckled with the lightest dusting of chillis. Absolutely delicious combination! Yum and yum again. Sigh.

Delectable home made rum and raisin ice cream, in the dappled shade of a Parisian garden forty five years ago... Sigh!

But on the other hand sat on a boat off a Jamaican beach eating from a huge platter of tropical luscious fruit, was quite remarkable.

I also am very partial to junket with nutmeg and clotted cream

Fresh caught big fat sardines barbecued on a French beach with a delicious glass of red wine

Best healthy food is Dulce found around the Antrim Coast

So many, but probably the time 35 years ago when we drove down a steep rocky track in Ibiza, walked across a 'working' beach and waited for the daily catch to be brought in whereupon mother and daughter set about preparing the most amazing meal. All kinds of fish, grilled barbecued & cooked in different ways culminating in a huge pot of soup sooked up with homemade bread. The kids played on the tiny beach for hours between courses. An amazing experience. Went back 10 years later: the track was now a road and a posh restaurant at the bottom. No sign of the simple fishing family. Progress Hrrmph

Sorry. I don't eat many deserts but a good summer pudding can be delicious, served with cream.

Hold on, aren't we deviating from the OP which was about desserts?!

I once stayed with a family in Krakow for a week. They were lovely people but Poles at that time had hardly ever met anyone who did not eat meat.

I couldn't have stuffed cabbage which generally had meat in the stuffing, so I got plain boiled cabbage, fermented or pickled cabbage. At the end of the week I did not want to see any more perogi or borscht.

the best meal I've ever has was in Krakow stuffed cabbage , mashed potato and tomato sauce. I even told DH that he must taste the potatoes as they were heavenly

I will forever remember Lobster Linguine at a family Italian restaurant in Lincolnshire.
I've lived in London all my life yet this is the best meal I have ever tasted.
Any pavlova /meringue based dessert is a winner with me.
Although an Eton mess that looked divine once turned out to be made with yoghurt..!!!! No cream!!!
Chefs "original twist".
Chef got his twist sent back to him with my great disappoint mentioned.
Don't think I've got over it yet?

Oh, Felice, I have to ditto kebabs (souvlaki type) in Cyprus. Done on the charcoal, and especially in nice fresh pitta bread with salad, delish!
I've tried to reproduce at home, with pork fillet done on the barbie - oil, salt and lemon juice added - and they've turned out pretty well.
I would never have thought of lemon juice on pork until I lived in Cyprus but it goes so well. They put it on so many things, including spinach, which gives that a huge fillip, too.

Oh I shouldn't be on this one.

Anniebach, superb choice. Marmite & lettuce sarnies take a lot of beating.

Not counting anything made by my Mum or Nana, because that wouldn't be fair ...

There used to be a restaurant in the King's Road called the Hungry Horse. It was perfect. Everything there was perfect. Everything about it was perfect. The kedgeree & spotted dick ... I still dream about them. Literally, I dream of them. If I were a posh Brigadier I'd've licked the plates!

All of this is making me want to cry. The New Piccadilly in Denman Street ... there was something about their egg & chips. Mum always said mine were better but I don't believe her.

Cooke's Pie & Mash in the Goldhawk Road ... oh help, I can't bear this ...

The Cafe Figaro in Lower Regent Street (round the corner from the BBC Studios) did the loveliest cappucinno ...

The Cafe Fleur-de-Lys (not certain I'm spelling that properly) in Gloucester Road ... cheese and tomato baps ...

The Ceylon Tea Centre was perfect for a lovely, unpretentious tea ...

There was an Uxbridge Road chippie, just near the market ... I still dream of them, too ...

Hot chestnuts from a brazier ...

Winkles & whelks from stalls ... Morecambe Bay shrimps ...

and oh, someone please let me into the Tardis & take me back to the days of being able to buy a pork pie in almost every street ...

I understand there has to be change in life but I'll never understand why perfect things have to change. Who in his right mind would want a burger instead of a pie? I knew the inmates were running the asylum when Wimpy bars, McDonald's etc. took over from pie stalls.

And oh, heaven help me but I miss bloater paste. Doesn't count, not exactly from a restaurant! Right, gal, pull yourself together:

Fresh fish from almost anywhere. Oysters from almost anywhere. Boiled potatoes on the Isle of Aran ... I'd no idea potatoes could taste like that (I've conducted a life-long love affair with Potato Pete, of course - potatoes are man's second-best friend). They were heavenly.

Incredibly grateful that Il Portico, High Street Ken is still around. Everything there's marvelous. Can't afford it these days but it's wonderful that the family's still running it.

A cream tea anywhere in Devon or Cornwall ... bliss.

A fresh-caught Melton Mowbray pork pie with broad beans & a bottle of stout!

silverlining47 You reminded me...when I was an 18 year-old au pair on a farm near Chambery on the French Alps, freshly dug new potatoes, tossed in butter. I've never forgotten them! They had a Hazel nutty taste and SOOO different from shop potatoes.

My Mum used to make the most gorgeous Cottage Pie when I was a child.
Mum used to mince up the left over beef joint, with any leftover vegetables in an old fashioned tabletop mincer.
It was piled into a pyrex casserole dish and liberally topped with mashed potato.
It was simply the best meal ever.
I have tried to replicate it, but no-good. It never tastes the same. Thank's for the wonderful memories Mum.

Flo's Filet ( fillet in English ;-)) steak, at The Longhorn Steakhouse Cape Coral, Florida. Have it every time I go back , served with a fully loaded baked potato ( a jacket potato to you and me with sour cream, chives and crispy bacon) and saluted mushrooms.

I don't know what they season their steaks with but its perfect and so tender you could cut it with a fork.

mmmm heaven !!

Piri piri chicken sitting in an outside café up in the mountains in Portugal .

Oooh Love seafood, and Cancale is the best place for it lovebeigecardie!

If we're just talking food, not setting, it was probably a saffron risotto in an Italian in Richmond town centre. I had nothing else with it - perfect on its own.

If we're talking setting as well, it was probably saganaki (fried cheese with lemon juice) and a simple tomato and cucumber salad, at a perfect, old fashioned beachside taverna in the Pelopponnese (sp?) with the most beautiful views and wonderful, warm clear, calm, sea to swim in.

On a camping holiday in France,St. Jean du Monts, when th e children were small. After a long day on the beach we stopped at the side of the road and enjoyed a spit roasted,herby chicken with tiny new potatoes which were cooking in the juices.
Also the simple Greek salads which just cannot be emulated back home.

Chicken salad sandwiches in a curry mayonnaise with small gerkins bought at a takeaway booth by the lake in Geneva and eaten outdoors. Also a creme brûlée served warm at a restaurant in Lille. Both many years ago.

Sitting by some Roman ruins in Jordan, some fresh hot flatbreads from a nearby bakers, some soft cheese and really fresh ? tomatoes. 10yrs ago but can still taste it!

Any night that I came home cold and wet on a winter's evening from school/work and had Mum's steaming lamb stew with the most amazing soft, mouthwatering dumplings placed before me. I've had quite a few restaurant meals here and in other countries ( mostly so so- even the very pricey ones) but nothing touches my Mum's stew. Mmmmm. I can taste it now.

About 45 years ago we had supper at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park before the show. Clement Freud was in charge of the catering in those days and we had home made Tomato soup and poached salmon with home made mayonnaise. I can still taste them now.