QOTD – I’m having a hard time remembering specific meals, and also trying to distinguish between the meal itself, the location, and the people who were there. So, the best meal that I can think of right now was last New Years – I had dinner with my girlfriend; a 4 course tasting menu with wine pairings at a great restaurant called the Iron Horse (in Pleasantville, New York).

QOTD – I’m having a hard time remembering specific meals, and also trying to distinguish between the meal itself, the location, and the people who were there. So, the best meal that I can think of right now was last New Years – I had dinner with my girlfriend; a 4 course tasting menu with wine pairings at a great restaurant called the Iron Horse (in Pleasantville, New York).

QOTD: the first time my friends and i drove out to the naam (as far as i know, it’s the only 24 hour vegetarian restaurant in vancouver) for a late night feast
the food there’s always great and it’s always open! great times with great friends and great food

Hi Gary,

You had me at “steak” and “$500 bottle of wine”. 🙂 I just wanted to say that I love your show and look forward to your daily videos.

To answer the question of the day, my favorite meal of all time has got to be with my friends and our 1st Annual Christmas Dinner 10 years ago at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in San Diego, CA. I had Lobster Bisque as an appetizer, Cowboy Ribeye Steak Medium Rare Oscar Sytle (w/ a lump of crab-meat w/ asparagus spears on top), and Potatoes Au Gratin. For desert, I had Creme Brulee along with an Irish Coffee.

I hope I win! Thanks!

David Ngan
San Diego, CA – USA

Good episode Gary. You seem all fired up recently. I like it.

QOTD: So hard! Had an incredible 8-course tasting menu dinner at Rover’s here in Seattle a couple of weekends ago. Might not be the best ever, but if not, it was damn close.

Hey Gary, longtime lurker, second-time poster. Love the fauxhawk! Keep rocking it.

QOTD: One of any number of meals I’ve had at Nimbus in Bellingham, WA. If you’re ever on the west coast, it’s a must-visit.

QOTD: The first meal i ever had with my wife on our first date. Vietnamese noodles with very thinly sliced beef at a neighborhood restaurant in Alhambra California. We spent the whole day together and have never looked back. Many meals since that have come close as well. Thanks Gary!!

Talk about a great way to bring out the lurkers, I couldn’t resist.

First I thought I would mention that I migrated over here from the wine.woot forums after you reviewed the Monkey Prize, if you recall that particular wine. I loved your style and energy then, and it continues to impress today.

Anyway, regarding my favorite meal, I would have to place it as a Christmas dinner when I was young (maybe eight?). Family from all around gathered to eat and converse.. as a child you really see this as something special and this leaves you with a somewhat lovingly distorted memory. Try as I might, I cannot think of anything to dislike about the food, the atmosphere, the friends.. but I can distinctly recall the creamyness of the deserts, the delicious turkey dark meat, cut from under the thigh, just as moist as you could ask for it. It’s rose tinted, yes, but it’s still very nice.

QOTD: It was probably spaghetti with instant tomato sauce, … when you’re hungry enough pretty much everything can become the best you’ve ever had 🙂

QOTD: My favorite meal ever has to be Thanksgiving, each year gets better than the one before, there is about 19 of us that get together and it turns into a huge production, 9 course meal, with wine pairings on each course. our family is not that wealthy and everyone lives well below there means, but on this one day, we celebrate the “gourmet” that lurks within. Its great food, great wine, and great company and something that gets better each year, a true parade of food and wine that makes the whole year worthwile, even if everything else went bad. Thanksgiving 2007 was the best meal ever.

p.s found your show last night for the first time, i was instantly hooked and watched like 20. and its a safe bet i am going to watch another 20 tonight, keep it up. THANK YOU

QOTD: Incredibly tough question. I’m racking through my brain trying to find the very best. I had an amazing steak in Roquefort and Rochefort 8 sauce at a Belgian restaurant between Brussels and Ghent that knocked my socks off. My mother, being an exceptional cook, has made some of the most fantastic meals of my life. Everything is so situational that it’s very tough to say.

QOTD: Incredibly tough question. I’m racking through my brain trying to find the very best. I had an amazing steak in Roquefort and Rochefort 8 sauce at a Belgian restaurant between Brussels and Ghent that knocked my socks off. My mother, being an exceptional cook, has made some of the most fantastic meals of my life. Everything is so situational that it’s very tough to say.

QOTD: the greatest meal i had was a “cordero patagonico”, back in the days were i was in Argentina, in a little trip to Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Glaciar Perito Moreno). Is lamb, slowly cooked for hours, very tender and delicious.

Please don’t give me a $500 bottle of wine. I would be afraid to open it.

QOTD: Last month, for my birthday, I had a mushroom ravioli in a light sauce with sundried tomatoes – served with a 2005 Joseph Phelps Napa Cabernet (and choclate chips for dessert). It was a fantastic meal.

OK, Candace. You (and the contest) have inspired me to emerge from deep lurkerdom. If I win the bottle of Masseto, we are bringing it to dinner at your house.

QOTD: Roast chicken, Jean-Georges-style, at Candaceâ??s house with a bottle of 1990 Masseto. Most Memorable: Universal Grill (Greenwich Village) circa 1996. My wife took me there for my birthday soon after we first met. The Universal Grill had some serious birthday action and it didnâ??t disappoint. The food was OK, but the fun was over the top. We laughed the whole way home up 8th Avenue. We still laugh about that night today.

Cubed round stake w/ grave over mashed potatoes and green beans hits the spot. I ate until it hurt. Now vegetarian. Unfortunate.

Gary, Fantastic Show!! Great incentive to bring our Lurkers like me!! Do it more often.

QOTD: The best meal session was 5 courses I had at the Michelin ONE Star restaurant in Fayence, FRANCE – Le Castellaras. Check it out next time you visit South of France!!

QOTD: Kabob Kubideh while visiting family overseas when I was younger. My dad took us to a restaurant in Tehran and they really pulled the works for us, or atleast it seemed like it after eating airplane/airport food for 2 days. It was so much food, and it was defiantly “butter bandit-ed” up with super juicy meat and saffron all over the place.

Keep up the good work, I plan on using WLTV as a great resource for my Wine Appreciation class next semester.

QOTD:I would have to say my own stir fry that I make myself every so often with nice cuts of beef lovely vegetables and nice steamed rice.

The best meal I’ve ever eaten was in Sonoma, Healdsburg, to be exact. It was at a restaurant called Cyrus. The fact that I got engaged that night has nothing to do with the fact that the food was so incredible, we were left speechless half the time. Yes, a meal there can cost as much as a small diamond. But my goodness was it worth it. For any vayniacs out there who actually *buy* $500 bottles of wine? I haven’t been to French Laundry but I’ve eaten at a lot of nice restaurants, and this, my friends…was the best darned meal I’ve ever eaten. Got the full tasting of course, ine if the highlights of which was a clear gazpacho. I have no idea. Just go. Go. Really, you MUST go.

QOTD: Gunclub with smell of gunpowder, dust, gravel, spring, sagebrush, cheap beer, tobacco, and powdered clay targets in the air. Dads BBQ pork ribs, fresh smoked steelhead, and other goodies. An incredible bottle of 1995 Kiona Cab that had been cooking behind the seat of the pickup and the cork had popped out a bit. This wine was like liquid Jolly Rancher candy. Yum!

Greatest meal I have ever had….hmmmm….In Savannah GA there is a Caribbean American hybrid restaurant called the Conch House…Just imagine the most tender perfectly prepared strips of steak but with a crazy Caribbean twist…the flavor was out of this world…I have never had anything that pushed my pallet to the limit like that steak!!!

Greatest meal I have ever had….hmmmm….In Savannah GA there is a Caribbean American hybrid restaurant called the Conch House…Just imagine the most tender perfectly prepared strips of steak but with a crazy Caribbean twist…the flavor was out of this world…I have never had anything that pushed my pallet to the limit like that steak!!!

qotd: My answer is probably somewhat ironic considering the company that is sponsering it. I’m from Montana, and I’ve worked construction jobs with a lot of ranchers. I’ve done work on a few cattle ranches and “deer farms” up in northern Montana in the Lewistown area. But the best meal I have ever had is actually from the hippie-loving college town of Missoula Montana. There is a restaurant there called Hong Kong Chef that has the best tofu I have ever had in my life. I’m living in Seattle Washington right now, vegetarian central with plenty of Asian cuisine to boot, and I still crave Kung Pao Tofu from Missoula’s Hong Kong Chef. I hope all those Montana rachers find it in their hearts to forgive me, as this probably sounds like blasphemy. 🙂

-lurker

wow…what a prize…
qotd: the best meal i’ve ever eaten would have to be the one i ate with my dad and a big group of his friends in Alberta like 15 years ago for his birthday…We all grabbed shovles and dug a pitt early that moring, lined it with white hot rocks that had been smoldering all nigh long. Then laid down moist burlap sacks and filled the rest with tons of herbs, wrapped veggies and apple wood. We covered up that beautiful suckling pig and roasted it for like 6hrs. and i must say i was a little put off by the sight of this whole pig laid out on the table with all the home cookedcountry food you could emagine. I’m not sure if it was the setting dusty Alberta sun or the stories, or the riesling i was to young to be drinking… but that was and is still the best meal that’s ever pased by these lips… Not sure if thats good enough to win…but thanks anyways for letting me walk down memory lane for a bit…
keep up the great work Gary…
I’m gathering a small army of thunder show fans out here in BC Wine country