The meal of a lifetime.

Can't top that FannyC

Monk fish mustard mash sapphire in a pub in Mullion Cove many years ago. Absolutely delicious.

The Panier D'Or on the main square in Brugge, used to be magnificent. Spend all evening, no hurry, fantastic Steak friet, waterzooie of meat or wish and the lighter than air waffles. We used to go every night, knew the staff by name etc.

On our next visit, all our lovely staff were gone, and it had been changed to a tourist trap. Chap menu, stupid prices and dreadful cooking. First time ever getting food poisoning in Belgium...which lasted 5 days ? We do have the memories but we'd rather have 'our' restaurant back

Mine would be my late grandmother's Christmas Lunch

Mine would be a meal at the then Michel Roux's 'The Waterside Inn' in Bray, a treat from our children for our special wedding anniversary some years ago.

It was a warm evening and the room was opened to the terrace, with the River Thames beyond. Coffee and petit four were served in a little summer house in the garden by the river. Food sublime, staff welcoming and professional without being stuffy.

Unfortunately.... our children made the reservation but forgot to reimburse us, so we paid the bill!! We didn't want to mention money so it was left like this!

To be fair to them, I now have an actual 'Waterside Inn' voucher (prepaid this time!) (for a special birthday) sitting in a kitchen drawer. I have no immune system at the moment so will wait.... and probably wait some more, until it is really safe for us to visit once more.

I suppose I have the delicious anticipation of a meal yet to come!

Urmstongran - do you eat that with ketchup and/or bread and butter?

Me too Urmstongran! I come from Stretford ?

In the 1970s on a trip to Paris with some friends we had French Onion Soup in a little crowded place somewhere in Montmartre. It was absolutely gorgeous and so welcome and filling, after traipsing round Paris all day. A second one was Duck a la Orange in a good pub, after a long walk through local hills, and an early evening Messiah at Llandaff Cathedral. One of the best meals ever!

Four stand out for me. 1. The Revolving Top of the Post Office Tower Tottenham Court Road, London - first Trout with butter sauce. 2. St. Paul's Bay, Malta. Two fishermen caught and cooked swordfish for us on the beach. I still don't know how I managed to get the actual fish-sword through customs. 3. An Indian restaurant with a stunning view overlooking Alcatraz, San Francisco. The meal was awful, like plastic. The waiter saw my disappointment and in a jiffy asked us to follow him to be seated upstairs. There we were told that the meals had been diluted for the U.S. mass-market. For the next 2 hours we chatted with the waiters and chefs as they brought out taster after taster. What a treat!
4. I was separating from DH and our lawyers told us we had to split time in the home caring for our children. I rode on buses all day when it was not my turn, and I'd out-stayed my friends' patience. I had gammon, pineapple and chips in the crowded bus station cafe and I absolutely loved it!

2DDs & I had the amazing Tasting Menu and wine flight at Bovey Castle on Friday. We were ‘celebrating’ & spending time together on the 10th anniversary of DHs death. He would have loved it.
However the best on spec rustic meal we ever had was in Ibiza years ago. We drove down a rough single track to a beach, paddled across to a shack where 2 women were preparing fish just brought in by the husband/dad. It was dished up over a period of a couple of hours in varying ways culminating in a bowl of soup from the cooking juices. So simple but so delish. Returned 10 years later. A made up road and a purpose built restaurant had appeared ?

Camping in Italy. A huge bag of warm fresh tomatoes and peaches from the market at the end of the day. 100 lira.

My most memorable meal was my son’s wedding, his wife is chinese. I don’t remember eating much as I didn’t know what it was most of the time. But every thing not eaten was given to another table. I think guests paid for their table so there were many at each table. We had to go round and be toasted at each table and we soon realised why our son had substituted what we were drinking for coco-cola. Was impressed with our dil who picked out morsels for my husband and explained what they were - he is far more adventurous than me. I am an eat to live person, not a live to eat one.

Such a lovely thread. As a foodie ( a greedy one ) I have enjoyed reading all the experiences. Thanks SAGO.
My contribution is this. We stayed in Sydney, Australia and our hosts took us to a scruffy restaurant in a nearby place on the coast called The Harboard Hilton. We had an amazing seafood platter there. Utterly delicious. I had oysters for the first time and huge prawns. There were other fish that were delicious too - the scallops were fantastic. We all sat round a big wooden table and the whole experience was unforgettable.

Lunch at ‘The Ritz’, I remember having Turbot and the Banana Soufle for pudding. Yummy. It was a gift from our daughter to say thank you for her wedding.

I think the most memorable meals are just as much the location, the unexpected menu, the people, often simple food and the moment! We have eaten in a few Michelin stars, Purnells, Simpsons and one in Barcelona can’t remember name! Food amazing but a few memorable meals are a restaurant in backstreets of old Yugoslavia we went in and asked for menu, an old waiter just shouted fish or meat! We had an enormous platter of grilled fish simple salad and jugs of wine. Once on a deserted beach in Greece we went to what we thought was a bar ( tables and seats outside) asked for drinks and did they do food. The lady pointed to a boat coming onto the beach, half an hour later we had delicious fresh fish, tomato salad and homemade bread. The son came home and told us they were not a bar or restaurant but we were very welcome to the food. Fortunately they willingly took payment. Street food places in Vietnam ( swore I wouldn’t eat streetfood), it was amazing. Our favourite restaurant is in the mountains in Ibiza an idyllic place with amazing views and the do the best Chateaubriand in the world. I could go on but they seem simple unexpected meals that are memorable.

I am not a foody but I do enjoy cooking my friends favourite meals. However, my absolute favourite was eating in one Glasgows first Italian Restaurant in the early 60's, I had Veal Saltimbocca.

My favourite meals are double egg and chips (anywhere), or fish and chips walking along the seafront.

Not interested in overpriced fancy food in fancy restaurants.

Dinner in Hall at Exeter College Oxford on a High Table night on the 700th anniversary of the college. Wonderful.

Had a seafood bisque (sort of) starter at La Bruceliere restaurant in Issigeac in the Dordogne. It was wonderful, cleaned the dish up with bread and wanted to lick it in case I'd missed anything.

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A recent menu, not too shabby at a decent price, Dordogne.

I can’t remember a ‘best ever’ meal, but the most memorable meal was in a restaurant in Morocco. I was with a party of about 30 others, all Brits. Starter was a huge pile of spaghetti in a gloopy tomato sauce. That was followed by a main of what we presumed was camel steak that we didn’t know whether to eat or sole our shoes with because it was so tough. Desert was the biggest orange I’d ever seen, plonked in our hands as we filed out.

This was in 1976 and I’ve never forgotten it

Italian meal in Venice. Not touristy- all the gondoliers we’re having their lunch there!

A restaurant, Ma Maison in La Sauvetat du Dropt, France, sat outside on a warm evening, beautifully served and prepared. My first time having a petite selection of dessert. 2015.
Unfortunately it’s since closed.

Ha ha, Sago ( no, not funny I know). We paid £25 fir 4 cups of tea and two small buns in Bergen 10 years ago.
Apparently at that time the minimum wage in Norway was 20£ an hour. Hate to think what a bag if chips might cost ..
Was happy we had bed and board on the. cruise ship .

Riverwalk How lovely to have a son living by Lake Lucerne.
Our son has just moved to Oslo, at Norwegian prices it will be a bag of chips for us overlooking the fjords?