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

I'm a huge fan of roast dinners, and the best ever are home cooked ones, so, at mine, my mums, or my daughters. Been some delicious roasts over the years.

In a restaurant in Cancale, Normandy I ate a fantastic Les Isles Flottante which was wonderfully light - just right after whatever else we ate - which I can't remember.

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That's a long way to go for dessert after your main!

Best meal was at the Connaught in London for a birthday meal, this was before they mucked it about with famous chefs. Asparagus with freshly made warm Hollandaise sauce.

Best pud. was in a long since closed Italian restaurant in Charlotte Street. It was self service and they did a plate of profiteroles over which they poured chocolate sauce, the consistency of thick custard, not the icing you get nowadays. They were wonderful and not seen them anywhere else.

Just remembered, it was called Tavola Calda.

Best meal a 7 course tasting menu in a fabulous Sydney restaurant on a once in a lifetime holiday to Australia. Never to be repeated.

Best dessert large freshly made scone with loads of clotted cream and peach jam

I approve your choice, anniebach - I grew up in Malvern and still horribly homesick! But love Marmite and lettuce sarnies at any time of the day or night - that's something I still make as one of my comfort foods (sadly can't persuade my menfolk to join me. You couldn't believe how rude they can be about Marmite!

Pizza sandwich (I kid you not) from a gas station in British Colombia. We had arrived in Canada on an 11 hour trans-Atlantic flight, got lost three times getting out of Calgary in our hire car and then drove for about six hours without seeing anywhere to buy food. There is a lot of nothing in BC! No way would I normally have considered a pizza sandwich but that one was manna from heaven! Best dessert - Birds Eye original Artic Roll aged about ten. We were not allowed shop bought cakes and desserts, so perversely we wanted nothing else. Granny bought the Artic Roll and we were in heaven. Maybe I have very simple tastes because these are clearly not five star hotel meals! or perhaps its the context more than the food that makes it memorable?

Getting hungry reading this!! On holiday in Greece in a hilltop taverna some years ago I had freshly caught grilled red mullet and greek salad (and chips) and DH had lobster sat outside with home made ice cream and baklava after.

Many years ago, on my own, I was pavement perusing the menu of a Parisian prestigious restuarant when the Maitre d' came out and invited me in. I was reluctant and said that all I wanted was a Creme Brûlée. He enthusiastically ushered me in and I ended up having two and a coffee. An absolutely unforgettable experience.

Scampi and chips in a basket. In 1969 in a country pub in Devon. It was delicious.

Peri-peri prawns cooked over a brazier on a pristine beach in Punta do Ora, Mozambique, just after their war ended.
Fresh oysters from the Fish Market in Auckland
Real French onion soup in Montmarte Paris
Pannacotta at the Lion & Rhino Reserve in Johannesburg

On a family holiday over thirty years ago - a small restaurant in Gozo. It was quite a simple meal - fish, salad, probably chips for the children, and a wonderful house wine. The whole ambience was perfect - sun, sea and flowers. We loved the wine so much we asked if we could take some back to our apartment for later consumption; they happily obliged, but unfortunately poured it into an old Pernod bottle which rendered it undrinkable!

Best meal was a salad eaten on the seafront in Oporto. It consisted of lettuce, tomato, onions and cucumber with a simple dressing of lemon juice and olive oil, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heavenly.

Pudding? Easy! Baklava, freshly made ["today by my mum" said the proud young waiter] in a greek restaurant in Canberra. Delicious.

Alternatively, a parilla [BBQ] in Calafate, Argentina with Patagonian lamb and a bottle of local merlot. Can't beat that.

Weirdly it was liver. Cooked in a family taverna in Pefkos in Rhodes. Just totally delicious. We went back for it 3 times in one holiday. The lovely owner went to butchers specially so we could have it on our last night as it was not on menu every night. We emailed him last year so he could get it in for our first night's meal.Can't wait to get back in July & have it again. I have tried to get it like that myself but it's nowhere near.

Me too!

Freshly caught mackerel cooked on a camping stove on a Cornish beach, years and years ago. Have not tasted the like since.
My mum's steak and kidney pudding - oh! that gravy and suet crust. I have not eaten one since she died.
Her bread pudding - rich with fruit and spice - was memorable too.

A steak in the US in 1980 it melted in my mouth - I've never tasted anything as good since.

Mushroom pie in a vegetarian restaurant in Leicester when my daughter was at university there. No dessert , I have diabetes.

This is easy. A local restaurant in Isfahan, Iran when we were on the long ‘overland’ (there was sea involved) trek back to Blighty from a year in Japan in 1971. The most beautifully flavoured lamb and rice and I have never had a better meal since.

Spaghetti with garlic, oil and chilli washed down with rough red wine in Coca Cola glasses. Back street bar in a foggy November Venice.

A fruit tiramisù: the savoiardi dipped in pineapple juice instead of coffee and each layer containing chopped fresh fruit as well as the marscapone/egg/sugar cream. Where? Er.... I invented it and ate it in my own home with close friends who loved it

Following a late flight to Jersey CI in 1981 we found a small restaurant where we had fresh crab salad.It was the start of a fantastic weekend I will never forget.

I've just remembered a tapas bar in Seville, where the speciality was Serrano ham (may have been something more special, such as iberico) and a red wine. The combination was indescribably delicious!