The meal of a lifetime.

Although we've been to a lot, I'm not keen on these 'posh' places. I find most of them pretentious and intimidating.
These days we like a panini and chips, two large glasses of wine, about £12 in Wetherspoons!

I’ve had two ‘tasting menu’ meals in France and TBH was distinctly underwhelmed, plus they were ludicrously expensive. Something I do especially remember, since after the second dh paid the bill for 10 of us!

OTOH a day or two after that one we had a (to me) much nicer, 3 course meal at a little restaurant in Beaune - fairly simple but perfectly cooked and a third of the price of the ‘tasters’.

A really memorable one was at some pub in Wales, when we were on the way to the ferry for Ireland. Smoked haddock with a sort of Welsh rarebit on top - it was truly delicious. I’ve been meaning to find the recipe - I know there is one - and make it, but have never got around to it.

To name a restaurant our first ever really fancy meal was at Le Moulinel in St Josse inland from Le Touquet. The first time I had an amuse bouché. Teeny tiny which I panicked was my starter.
We returned many times over the years.

My fanciest meals have been places I was taken by the parents of grateful students. Certainly the food was very nice in them. 16 courses of haute cusine, including truffles (nice, but overrated).

But as some others have said on here, the best food I've ever had has been street food.

Not one favourite meal but many, over the last 20 years while being in snd travelling through France. Until COVID we often rented a gite somewhere and always travelled slowly avoiding motorways and without pre booking accommodation. We stopped off in all sorts of places, often village restaurants to enjoy a freshly cooked 3 course lunch often with wine, for anything from 11 euro. Then in the evenings finding a fancier restaurant for dinner with menus from 20 euro. We have had some fabulous dining experiences. Looking forward to visiting France again and hope their prices havnt increased too much as ours have done here.

You can take the girl out of Old Trafford ....

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When we lived in Jamaica we went up the hills to the Blue Mountain Inn. A beautiful setting at night , tasty food, wonderful service and a rose for every lady. We took my parents there for a treat. My mother was so impressed with being so spoilt.

There is a Michelin * restaurant in the next village to us, owned by the son of an old friends. We have been a few times and, as you would expect, the food is lovely.

My most memorable meal though was in a little restaurant, somewhere in the middle of France. It too was just steak and chips, kate but delicious.

Gosh 16 courses Sago! Was each course served separately?

I grew up in a Third World country just after the war. No fancy restaurants or food then…. After the usual poor student days, DH and I never really had the money to go to expensive restaurants.
My most delicious meal was in a little cafe on the river bank at Oporto. A bowl of cabbage soup, and then a salad of lettuce tomato, onion and cucumber with lemon juice and fresh olive oil, served with fresh bread. It was delightful.

I was a very lucky child in that we travelled to other European countries for our summer holidays long before cheap package tours and flights were available. My parents booked a passage on the car ferry – Dover to Boulogne in those days. My father had an idea of where he was heading but we just travelled until we found somewhere where we wanted to stay for our remaining weeks of holiday. En route, we stopped at a hotel in a convenient town for the night – never booking ahead. We dined in numerous restaurants all over Europe, from Belgium to Italy and from France to Spain. I had the chance to taste and discover all kinds of food that wasn't part of my daily life although I would add that my mother was quite an adventurous cook for her generation.

I don't have a meal of a lifetime – I have a lifetime of meals.

We went to a fancy restaurant next to Sydney harbour and the people we were with ( English) didn't like oysters so they gave us theirs. Sydney oysters are lovely so we really pigged out. Work was paying so that made it even better!

MiniMoon

Tasting menu at Hyem in Wall. The only Michelin starred restaurant in Northumberland. 18 courses of the most sublime little dishes with the juice tasting menu. Everything was presented beautifully, and each course described by the very knowledgeable waiting staff.

It was a 70th birthday gift to my husband from our wonderful children and their partners.

Oh I’ve heard about this ! I thought it was in Hexham (where I went to school) though,

I’m not a foodie so can’t really join in, but the thread has reminded me if something my dad told me a few weeks ago, which actually made me cry.
He said that his most memorable meal was fish and chips on a drizzly seafront at Weston Super Mare, together with my late mom and me in my pushchair.
(I’m tearing up now ♥️)

Lunch in The Harbour Bar outside Capetown. It is one of my most amazing memories. The food was amazing, the setting was perfect and it came in the middle of the best day out ever!

A formal dinner in one of the Cambridge colleges. The food was absolutely delicious. It was put on for my choir doing a residential a few years ago.
During the same week DH and I had a lovely meal at a Greek restaurant. What’s more, it was very reasonably priced.

Mamissimo

Nannagarra

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire. After the meal Raymond Blanc sat and chatted at the table with us then took my sons, aged 12 and 10, into the kitchen and made treats for them.

My favourite food experiences ever there. The best cheese trolley in the world. Mr M and I are taking all our ADC, DGC and Partners for a special meal there this summer with the petrol money we saved during lockdown when we couldn't go to see them.

I totally agree, we had a weekend there in early January, the whole experience was amazing. Hope to go back in the summer so we can see the garden in full bloom.

One of the best meals I have had was a simple but amazing mushroom risotto I had in an Osterei (sp?) in Florence .My DH and I were exhausted after a morning of visiting all the wonderful sights and views, we found this little place in a street near the station before going back to the town we were staying in .We sat at a long table with some lovely local people. No menu, no wine list , just what the chef was cooking that day, but my word it was out of this world. A magical day I will always remember .

I can't remember. Probably Venice somewhere. However we visited The Palace of Versailles and were starving at the end of the tour. We went into a little cafe and had steak swimming in butter and chips! I love Cartmel Sago.

Breakfast at Gleneagles. Just…….. the best ever!

Most interesting was a foodie tour on scooters through Ho Chi Minh city. Amazing food, and what a ride too.

Mamissimo, what a lovely idea. I would settle for a walk round Raymond's kitchen garden.
I went on so much about it, that my lovely son in law bought me one of his cookbooks.

The best meal I’ve ever had, was an ‘Onam Sadya’ - 26 varieties of Indian Vegetarian dishes to celebrate the Kerala Onam (Harvest Festival) - made by a good friend of mine, all by herself (with a bit of slicing and chopping by her husband).

Nannagarra

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire. After the meal Raymond Blanc sat and chatted at the table with us then took my sons, aged 12 and 10, into the kitchen and made treats for them.

My favourite food experiences ever there. The best cheese trolley in the world. Mr M and I are taking all our ADC, DGC and Partners for a special meal there this summer with the petrol money we saved during lockdown when we couldn't go to see them.

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire. After the meal Raymond Blanc sat and chatted at the table with us then took my sons, aged 12 and 10, into the kitchen and made treats for them.