The meal of a lifetime.

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.

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.

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

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 ?

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!

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!

Me too Urmstongran! I come from Stretford ?

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

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!

Mine would be my late grandmother's Christmas Lunch

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

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

Can't top that FannyC

I went to The Kitchen in Edinburgh in October with a friend to celebrate being 70 again. It was the most wonderful experience with sublime food, attentive but unobtrusive service plus Tom Kitchen served me my scallops. He was professional, attentive and friendly to everybody.
We both agreed it was the best meal we had ever had , worth every penny and we caught the bus back to our apartment. Result!!

Anything and apparently everything I make! Don't like to dine out as I'm a very accomplished cook and can usually make better at home in my little kitchen .......and always for a fraction of the costs, we prefer to spend on useful treats!

For me it's the tasting menu in Castle Leslie, Co. Monaghan. Absolutely sublime.

We were guests at my son’s retirement dinner in the Mess at his last RAF station. Seven courses of the most delicious food, beautifully presented, with wines and liqueurs to complement each course, cooked by RAF chefs overseen by a Warrant Officer who had cooked for the Queen on more than one occasion. It was a large gathering and a touching mark of respect for him.
Another memorable plateful was the Yokohama steak served hissing and spitting on a cast iron plate at the Churchill Restaurant in Singapore, fifty odd years ago. The sauce was so utterly delicious I have never forgotten it, nor have I ever been able to replicate it!

When either of my parents make me a homemade potato pie. I’m 53 and more than capable of making one myself but as soon as I hear they’ve made one I trot up the road like a gazelle to get some. If I’m ill they make me one, there is always one on the side in the kitchen when I return from a holiday, for my birthday for my husbands birthday. They also made the best FEB when we were little. The best meals are full of love and memories.

Eating seafood chowder in Galway Bay. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant but that was the best seafood chowder I’ve ever eaten.

'Stayed in a a very grand hotel where the dinner was awful. The next (and last) night in the area we went to a local pub, where the food was the best I had ever tasted. We were full to the brim when individual willow pattern plates of quite large proportions were placed in front of us, a 'cheeseboard' of such size and variety that were were speechless. At least six different types of cheese with warm bread, butter, crackers, slices of apple, pear, and small bunch of grapes.

For the the restaurant, the food and the sea it has to be the Cliff in Barbados. A never to be forgotten evening. It must be nearly 20 years ago now but it doesn’t seemed to have changed and still getting raving reviews. It is a stunning place.

Quatre Saisons for me too. Have to say the time spent in his garden was every bit as good as the meal experience. Most beautiful and amazing sculptures. Also an amazing stroganoff in a shore-side restaurant in Leith (near Edinburgh). Memories that will live forevermore with me.

An evening meal at the restaurant on The Skylon Tower in Niagra…a fabulous meal with an amazing view!!

Sharina
Galway Bay is where we had our worst meal. ?

The Beach Hut in Oxwich Bay on The Gower - a family lunch for my 70th in 2019. It was wonderful!