The Best Meal of Your Life

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Describe the best meal of your life. I just had mine... the memory is still on my tongue. I'll post more details about mine in a bit. But I want to know if anyone else has a stand-out meal in their minds that was better than anything they've ever had before.

Was it a meal that was fantastic because it had been sooo long since you'd eaten?
Was it fine dining at an expensive restaurant?

I'm talking about the satisfaction of eating here, not anything else about the meal (like that it was your honeymoon and the food wasn't that great but the scenery was nice or something).

So how about it? What was the best food you've ever had?
 
Well, it is a toss up between a steak at Outback or Longhorn, but either one with a baked sweet potato (with butter and brown sugar) and a caesar salad (yes, I want fresh grated cheese and fresh ground peper on that) with a Bass Ale (preferrably draught) to drink.

It is the best tasting and most filling meal I can get in the $15 range. Any meal more than that begins to lose its taste because the appeal of the meal is lost with every extra dollar I must spend.

A great value with a great taste can outweigh any over priced dinner at a fancy restaurant that I walk away hungry from. Plus, I just love meat and a fat juicy steak is a wonderful thing.
 
House Special Noodles from "The Chinese Chef" near my house.


Heaven!
 
Fish'n'chips. Every week.

And no, I'm not joking.
 
The Chicken Picata dish at the Cheesecake Factory. Comes with Angel Hair pasta and 3 pieces of Chicken Beast. I ususally eat mine, and then clean up my girlfriends plate! Plus a piece of cheesecake afterwards! Love that place.
 
I want to go to the Cheesecake Factory. I've heard that it is very good and they recently built one up here in Jacksonville. I heard that theres nearly an hour wait to get in. :eek:
 
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I want to go to the Cheesecake Factory. I've heard that it is very good and they recently built one up here in Jacksonville. I heard that theres nearly an hour wait to get in. :eek:
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Its worth it. We have two in Orlando, and one here in Tampa. I have also been to one in Atlanta and Indy. Doesn't matter where it is, its good.

My girlfriend and waited for 2.5 hours on Valentines Day. It was cool though, because it is at one of the nicer malls and we shoped. 👍
 
Nice. There was a brand new mega mall that was just built up here and they put a Cheesecake Factory in there. This place is freaking huge. This mall is bigger than the Outlet Mall in St Augustine in its area. All of the stores are uber jumbo size. The Middle of the mall is really cool. It looks like a little town.
 
Best meal was in a very nice restaurant in Bray. Was very posh, went there when i was 18 with my gf to celebrate our anniversary. The food was the best i'd ever had.

Very tempted to go to The Fat Duck in Bray which holds the award for Best Restarant in the world.

Sample of the menu: (you get everything listed here, per head. Look at all the courses!)

NITRO-GREEN TEA AND LIME MOUSSE

ORANGE AND BEETROOT JELLY

OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, HORSERADISH CREAM, LAVENDER

POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO

JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS

SNAIL PORRIDGE
Jabugo Ham, shaved fennel

ROAST FOIE GRAS
Almond fluid gel, cherry and chamomile

SARDINE ON TOAST SORBET
Ballotine of mackerel ‘invertebrate’, marinated daikon

SALMON POACHED WITH LIQUORICE
Asparagus, pink grapefruit, "Manni" olive oil

POACHED BREAST OF ANJOU PIGEON PANCETTA
Pastilla of its leg, pistachio, cocoa and quatre épices

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND CAVIAR

MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET

PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN

MANGO AND D0UGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet

CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE,
BAVAROIS OF BASIL

BEETROOT JELLY

SMOKED BACON AND EGG ICE CREAM
Pain perdu, tea jelly

LEATHER, OAK AND TOBACCO CHOCOLATES

PRALINE ROSE TARTLET
 
About twice a week I have a burger at Underground Pub, down the street from where I work. Best burger I've ever had, and the waitress is great.

On our West Coast trip the lady and I had a really nice dinner at the top of the Seattle Sapce Needle. It was bad ass.

We also had a catered lunch on an uninhabitted beach in the Bahama island chain. That was pretty cool.

Dinner with my grand parents. They've both died, years ago, but that woman could cook like none other. Hungarian dishes, amazing flavor. What really makes it great is when someone else tries to cook one of her recipies and pretty much destroys it. That reminds me just how great it was sitting at her table.
 
donbenni
Sample of the menu: (you get everything listed here, per head. Look at all the courses!)

ORANGE AND BEETROOT JELLY
OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, HORSERADISH CREAM, LAVENDER
POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO
JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS
SNAIL PORRIDGE
Jabugo Ham, shaved fennel
ROAST FOIE GRAS
Almond fluid gel, cherry and chamomile
SARDINE ON TOAST SORBET
Ballotine of mackerel ‘invertebrate’, marinated daikon
SALMON POACHED WITH LIQUORICE
Asparagus, pink grapefruit, "Manni" olive oil
POACHED BREAST OF ANJOU PIGEON PANCETTA
Pastilla of its leg, pistachio, cocoa and quatre épices
WHITE CHOCOLATE AND CAVIAR
MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET
PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN
MANGO AND D0UGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet
CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE,
BAVAROIS OF BASIL
BEETROOT JELLY
SMOKED BACON AND EGG ICE CREAM
Pain perdu, tea jelly
LEATHER, OAK AND TOBACCO CHOCOLATES
PRALINE ROSE TARTLET
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Sounds too self-consciously haute cuisine for my pallette.

Probably the best meal I've ever had was in fact at a restaurant I designed. It was a well-seasoned, blackened prime rib, medium rare, with some perfectly roasted new potatoes with garlic, and asparagus with a delectable sauce. I'm not a huge asparagus fan but this was really good; in fact all the spicing on everything was pretty perfect. It was opened by a good Caesar salad, accompanied by a good red wine, and finished with Tiramisu.
 
I purchase a $50 Beef tenderloin roast, but it into two inch steaks, marinated the steaks in tomato paste, brandy, roughly crushed peppercorns and large cut garlic, with a little salt. They marinated for about 10-12 hours. Prepped baked some potatoes, just a little olive oil on there skins,. wrapped in tinfoil and baked....

Once the potatos were cooked, I scouped out the white insides of the potatos, keeping the skins intact, whipped the insides with sour cream, salt, pepper, oregano, and then placed the whipped potatos back in their skins, covered the tops with sharp chedar and chives and put them back in the oven for about 5 minutes to melt the cheese

Had green beans wrapped in tinfoil done on the bbq , used olive oil on them, salkt, pepper, fresh garlic, and parmesian cheese, all on the green beans.....

Sliced up some Portabello mushrooms and fried them with onions in butter and salt and pepper to side with the steak....


Finaly, grilled the two inch marinated tenderloin steaks to a wonderfully juice rare and sat down to dinner with a glass of red wine ( $30 bottle of red, but I don';t which brand )

now that was extrodinary and I made it myself...wow, now I am hungry


*edit*

I forgot, I had made the day before a baked blueberry and white chocolate cheese cake that was desert, was amaxing ! )
 
Duke
Sounds too self-consciously haute cuisine for my pallette.
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Exactly what I was thinking. What the hell is a "Toast Sorbet" anyway?

The greatest meal I ever had was at my cousin's wedding. This is my multi-millionaire cousin, so he could easily afford the best food – the greatest, freshest, greenest salad I've ever had in my entire life (with a lemon vinaigrette), the most tender filet mignon (you could cut it with a fork), delicate baby vegetables, some other stuff that I can't remember (this was years ago), and a wonderful hand-made vanilla ice cream with spiraled chocolate straws. Absolutely savory meal, without being ostentatious or completely foreign.
 
Ok, I'll chime in with my dining experience.

Dining started at around 7 with cocktails at a very nice restaurant. Following cocktails we got appetizers, fresh bread, and VERY good wine (over $100/bottle). The appetizers were of little importance though they were pretty good. Probably at around 7:45 we ordered dinner. I ordered a filet medium rare and some garlic mashed potatoes. Salad came first, which was one of the better salads I've had. Before 8:45 or main course showed up.

The filet was red in the middle, sitting in a pool of peppery marinade. It was SO juicy - I mean this thing was cooked to perfection. The potatoes were also just fantastic and they went perfectly with the wine which had a little spice to it. The meat came with an optional bernaise (cream sauce) which was also fantastic. We started a second bottle of the same wine as we finished up the main course.

The wait staff was totally ON it. Pouring wine for us (which is totally unecessary when the bottle is right there), and rotating dishes in and out. We went through a round of dishes for the bread, a round for the appetizer, a round for the salads, a round for the main course, and then came dessert by which time the table had been filled and cleared 4 times by the wait staff.

Then came the souffles which the wait staff served to each of us with some whipped cream (peices from each with different flavors) .

By the time it was all done I'll bet it was over $150 per person - which isn't all that increadible but it's still hefty. I didn't pay for it (of course, you think I would do this for myself?) and I've probably been treated to more expensive meals in the past (don't ask) - but this one was better than any meal I can remember. It was 10 o'clock by the time the meal came to an end - 3 hours of eating slowly :)

I'm realizing that a rarish steak and some potatoes is my favorite meal. It makes me feel quite stereotypical, but hey I like what I like.
 
donbenni
Best meal was in a very nice restaurant in Bray. Was very posh, went there when i was 18 with my gf to celebrate our anniversary. The food was the best i'd ever had.

Very tempted to go to The Fat Duck in Bray which holds the award for Best Restarant in the world.

Sample of the menu: (you get everything listed here, per head. Look at all the courses!)

NITRO-GREEN TEA AND LIME MOUSSE

ORANGE AND BEETROOT JELLY

OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, HORSERADISH CREAM, LAVENDER

POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO

JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS

SNAIL PORRIDGE
Jabugo Ham, shaved fennel

ROAST FOIE GRAS
Almond fluid gel, cherry and chamomile

SARDINE ON TOAST SORBET
Ballotine of mackerel ‘invertebrate’, marinated daikon

SALMON POACHED WITH LIQUORICE
Asparagus, pink grapefruit, "Manni" olive oil

POACHED BREAST OF ANJOU PIGEON PANCETTA
Pastilla of its leg, pistachio, cocoa and quatre épices

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND CAVIAR

MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET

PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN

MANGO AND D0UGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet

CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE,
BAVAROIS OF BASIL

BEETROOT JELLY

SMOKED BACON AND EGG ICE CREAM
Pain perdu, tea jelly

LEATHER, OAK AND TOBACCO CHOCOLATES

PRALINE ROSE TARTLET
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I've been to "The Fat Duck" it was excellent, but I would say the meal I had I Port Meiron (Wales) is the best I have ever had, can't remember what I had.

I have recently come back from the Isle of Wight, where I, on tuesday, had one of the best meals of my life (better than "the fat duck") in "The George Hotel" :

It started with a nice risotto and was followed with a confit of pork, then "honeycomb ice cream"...

Sublime.
 
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the meal I had I Port Meiron (Wales) is the best I have ever had, can't remember what I had.
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Holy crap, dude!


"I am not a number! I am a free man!"
 
I don't eat very 'classy' foods, the best dinner I can remember would probably be a cheese hotdog from 7-11.👍 So tasty witha DOUBLE GULP, it'll destroy your kidneys!!
 
The best meal I ever had.... hmmmmm, definitely not the most expensive one because I remember that time and I was pissed off after that.



THe best LUNCH I had was when I was in Rome with school. We bought slices of pizza from stores while walking around the city and they're really great. Much better than any other pizza I had before (and that doesn't mean only dominoes, but also Italian restaurants in my country).


Nothing is as great as going to a chinese buffet or something while starving, pigging out eating as much as you can possibly fit in your stomach until you're about to burst. Or infinite spare ribs at an argentinian restaurant... mmmm. :D


I had a couple of great meals at a Greek restaurant as well, but the downside about that is that you still taste garlic the next morning while eating your breakfast cereal and you carry around a cloud of stink all day.






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Anyway, let me tell about that time I had the most expensive dinner. It was 3 courses, you could choose between 2 things for every course... and that was it, all the restaurant had to offer.


So the first course... starting with spare ribs which I picked, because spare ribs are good. Well they were literally spare ribs... in plural, because they put 2 ribs on a plate. Great... there wasn't even much meat on them.

On to the next course... it was some type of taco, but most definitely a taco deluxe... because it was expensive. Afterwards I can say I would have prefered a Big Mac over this. It was just that stupid taco, with gross green sauce. I forgot what it was made of again, but I didn't like it. Normally I practically eat anything, but I couldn't eat that.

Desert was ice cream... 2 little balls of ice cream... probably straight out of the fridge. What a scam.


After that I was still hungry and went to go buy a bag with french fries elsewhere which tasted better than the entire $40 meal I had before that.
 
donbenni
Best meal was in a very nice restaurant in Bray. Was very posh, went there when i was 18 with my gf to celebrate our anniversary. The food was the best i'd ever had.

Very tempted to go to The Fat Duck in Bray which holds the award for Best Restarant in the world.

Sample of the menu: (you get everything listed here, per head. Look at all the courses!)

NITRO-GREEN TEA AND LIME MOUSSE

ORANGE AND BEETROOT JELLY

OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, HORSERADISH CREAM, LAVENDER

POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO

JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS

SNAIL PORRIDGE
Jabugo Ham, shaved fennel

ROAST FOIE GRAS
Almond fluid gel, cherry and chamomile

SARDINE ON TOAST SORBET
Ballotine of mackerel ‘invertebrate’, marinated daikon

SALMON POACHED WITH LIQUORICE
Asparagus, pink grapefruit, "Manni" olive oil

POACHED BREAST OF ANJOU PIGEON PANCETTA
Pastilla of its leg, pistachio, cocoa and quatre épices

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND CAVIAR

MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET

PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN

MANGO AND D0UGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet

CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE,
BAVAROIS OF BASIL

BEETROOT JELLY

SMOKED BACON AND EGG ICE CREAM
Pain perdu, tea jelly

LEATHER, OAK AND TOBACCO CHOCOLATES

PRALINE ROSE TARTLET
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If they would have presented you with the bill before you were done eating I'm sure it would have tasted a lot worse. You probably didn't even like the food, but you did anyway because knowing how expensive it will be made you WANT to like it. :D


How much would that cost anyway? Probably over a hundreds euros / dollars per person?
 
My Opa's (Grampa's) pot roast, with gebakken aardappelen (baked potatoes), and boiled spinach. Awesome meal that I, nor anyone in my family, can reproduce. He died never telling anyone what his secret was. The meat was always perfect. Not too salty, not too peppery; with the right amount of tang and spice to it. It took two days to prepare the roast, and I know he would only use the oven at a low temperature. Everytime we ate it, it was a religous experience. The meat was always soft, pink and juicy and would literally melt in your mouth. The potatoes were buttery soft with a golden crunchy outside layer, with a soft inner core, that again, would melt in your mouth. The spinach was amazing. I love spinach, probably thanks to Opa, and his Dutch spinach was always the best you could ever eat. He just boiled it for 15 minutes, or so, with salt, butter and pot roast juice. Eating this meal with him was like going to church. We only ate it on Sundays, so that's why I feel so 'religious' about the meal. It was the best.

He also made the best fried herring you ever had, also. Neighbors, even the younger "punk" ones, would always ask for his fried herring. Oh, he grew the spinach in his backyard, BTW, and fried the fish in his garden shed.
 
My mother's homemade burritos. OmG!! First off, they're HUGE!! 2 meals in one burrito... secondly, they're amazing. I can't eat one without eating a second...
 
I've had so many great meals in my life it's virtually impossible to pick just one! LG's Prime Steakhouse stands out in my mind though. Hot bread, ice cold caesar, buttery filet, loaded baked potatoe, and ice cream. It doesn't get any better than that (well, maybe it does...just replace the filet and baked potatoe with some good fettucini alfredo)! :drool:
 
The best meal? Well it has to be venison that I pan sautee with mushrooms, onions, olive oil, a blend of herbs and spices, with a dash of hot sauce for kick. I cut the venison into very thin strips, I love making it but I can only make it in the fall after hunting season. Plus I don't keep much of the deer anyways since there is a program in Michigan where you can donate game meat to needy childern. I just keep enough to make my sauteed stuff a few times.
 
Many great meals in Japan. I love Japanese, Chinese, American and some European food, but most of the good ones were in Japan. Maybe just because the taste and flavor is catered for Japanese tongue.

I don't eatout in fancy restaurant much anymore(only when somebody else's paying :D), but there's usually good food at the Blazers games(NBA Basketball). It's an above-average buffet that you can get into with a pass at the stadium.
 
Mom's Penne and Sauce.

nice and simple, yet to die for. my mom makes the best sauce on earth. no agita or anything like all those commercial sauces. nothing beats homemade with some veal in there as well.
 

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