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

Many many years ago staying with friends on a farm someone went outside and dug up some new potatoes which they cooked and we sat and ate them out of the pot with lashings of butter. They were absolutely delicious......but maybe the whole magical impromptu experience colours my memory!

A wild mushroom risotto in a back-street café in Verona. Easily the cheapest and least pretentious meal I've had in Italy.

Dover Sole, caught, prepared and cooked on the beach by my late uncle John!

Fruits de mer at The Oyster Box, St Brelade's Bay Jersey.

At a taverna at the top of the Samaria Gorge in Crete in the early 1980s. A rustic meat stew (?goat) followed by Greek yogurt and local honey, before walking down the gorge the following morning.

Fish cakes, chips and peas at a maternity home. After having had nothing to eat for 48 hours (nerves, then labour) it was like nectar!

Fresh caught eels, then smoked over oak shavings in a boat yard in St Osyths ( Essex)
Divine!!!

My best meal ever was many years ago in Malta, our family's last night of the holiday. Wandering the resort we came across a tiny restaurant which looked interesting. Some of us are vegetarians & the lovely waitress said they could cook whatever we'd like....& they did. The Russian chef cooked us a dozen fabulous dishes. With free drinks, we stayed several hours, were the only customers & were totally spoiled by the chef & waitress who sat chatting with us. We eventually left with hugs & promised to return...which we did next holiday. Sadly the restaurant had closed down & the couple had gone back home...I've often wondered what happened to them!

Oh dear! What a well travelled, middle class group we are.

No AlisonKF
Some of us can't resist lowering the tone.

Jellied beef consomme at posh hotel on my wedding night. Never had it before or since, but absolutely delicious!

Two meals.
One at The Winter Gardens Blackpool aged 8 ...?..65 years ago.
We had a private room where we were told the then King and Queen had dined, all wood panelled walls, starched napkins and silver service. Food came in tureens and roast beef was carved at table by waiters. We had roast pork and apple sauce too and huge Yorkshire puds with lots of greens, carrots, parsnips, mashed and roast potatoes and jugs of gravy. Puddings were a whole apple pie and a large dish of proper rice pud (with skin on) plus jugs of custard and cream. The food was not pre plated. We helped ourselves from all the food laid out and as many times as we wanted. There were just 4 of us but by golly...we did it justice.
T'other meal was roast chicken breast stuffed with haggis with boiled potatoes, no veg. Princes St, Edinburgh, New Year, when KD Lang headlined the Hogmanay party. We stayed at The Albany, Albany St.

oldgoat
Priceless ???

There are two meals tying for best ever status. First one was grilled sardines, green salad and freshly made bread in a beach cafe in Almunecar, Spain. The other was battered haddock, chips and mushy peas at a tiny pub in the middle of Lincolnshire - to die for!!!!
Best ever dessert has to be the gorgeously fruity Eton mess i had at a gastro pub near Skipton.

I feel like I've been watching 'Wish you were here'. What a lovely thread! I can picture all the locations.

The first cappuchino I'd ever had ( or seen ) too many years ago in Sweden. Spooning up the froth I felt so sophisticated. It was my coming of age.

Bigos for me too Tiredoldwoman (though I wouldn’t have known how to spell it!) but made by Polish friends. Ginger pannacotta in a small family run restaurant in Scotland.

Asian banquet at restaurant in Noosa Australia this Christmas restaurant is called “Sum yung guys” lovely flavours beautifully cooked.

Spanish tapas at a restaurant called Mi Casa Su Casa, in Blackpool of all places! I was dining alone and let the waiter choose. Had about 4 mouth-watering dishes and a dessert to die for. But can't remember any of the specifics!! I must go back some day.

Old Goat!! that's made my day!

The nine course tasting menu at Castle Leslie in Ireland. It was amazing. The tiny chocolates at the end of the meal were taken back to our room. We were done in!

Driving on holiday in Scotland years ago just DH and I, we came across a hotel by a loch and DH just drove in-he was hungry! For the pud, we had brown sugar meringues-mm, delicious!
Loved reading this thread btw

Trout freshly grilled out of a mountain stream in Norway, 60 years ago. Not upmarket, we were Youth Hostelling!

Majorica, amazing giant prawns seafood paella.
Little pub in Kent the Angel which does amazing Sunday roast dinner. Too many to mention.

Sea food in The Crab Shack in Memphis was to die for.

Also when working in Brussels many years ago I discovered snails in garlic butter with crusty bread. So simple, so delicious. We ate them all the time.