Aaa! I knew I should have watched yesterday. I hope I’m not too late. Great episode! This is the first time I’ve seen you rate anything about 93, and it got me all excited 🙂

QOTD: My boyfriend’s aunt is a fabulous (authentic) Italian chef, and each year she auctions off an authentic Italian feast in her home, complete with wines, for a church benefit. Last year, her husband secretly bid on the feast, and then, after winning, gave it as a gift to my boyfriend’s family. I am the luckiest girlfriend ever, because I got invited! It was fantastic…, the antipasti included wonderful olives and artisan cheeses…and the meal included the best veal scallopini I have ever had in my entire life. I wish I had the list of foods in front of me…but even if the food had been mediocre (which it wasn’t), the European pacing of the meal and the family fellowship would still have made it one of my favorite meals!

QOTD: Definitely in Pisa, a little place on a side street. It was wonderfully simple: caprese salad with tomato sauce on penne, accompanied by a glass of their house wine (which by the way was fantastic). It was out of this world.

QOTD: Definitely in Pisa, a little place on a side street. It was wonderfully simple: caprese salad with tomato sauce on penne, accompanied by a glass of their house wine (which by the way was fantastic). It was out of this world.

My favorite meal…chicken tikka masala with basmati rice and royal naan, at India Quality in Boston.

Cheese-filled pan pizza with a large glass of cold white milk.

The Greatest meal I have ever had was just a few months ago. During a trip to the Piedmonte region in Italy for a week of wine tastings, I had dinner with a very famous Italian wine Maker at a wonderful little hidden restaurant in Monforte. They served us 5 courses of heavenly selections that the chef personally created for us. We had no say as to what he would bring out, so every course was a suprise. We enjoyed that dinner with a bottle of Elio Grasso Barolo 1998, that blew me away. What an experience….wow.

QOTD: The best meal I ever had was at a friends dinner party. We started with some nice hors d’oeurves and some Champagne. Then, we had a nice crisp salad and some New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. For the main course, we had grilled leg of lamb with some Chateau Smith Haut Lafite. We then had some nice creme brulee and a nice dessert wine. Wish I could remember what the dessert wine was. We also had some nice dessert cheeses. The thing that made the meal so special was that it was all homemade and with a group of special friends. It was certainly a memorable experience.

Great show Gary!

Abel

Chicken Tikka Masala, basmati rice, and a royal nan from India Quality in Kenmore Square in Boston is consistently my favorite meal ever!

The best meal is always the next one!
Thank you for your consideration.

The greatest meal i have ever had is my moms homemade manicotti. She makes it for me everyday March 1st which is my bday. Close second is her homemade lasagna which the family eats christmas day.

Side note, hey Gary for a lot Italian families its tradition to eat only seafood christmas eve. My mom has put me in charge of bringing wine for everyone this year because she thinks im a wine connaisseur in fact i just got into wine a few months ago and keep trying different stuff from trader joes, bev mo, and the local wine shops. I did place one order from your store but the 30$ shipping cost to the west coast can kill a college boys wallet (do i smell a distribution center on the west coast being planned?). Anyway to the point i know next to nothing about wine and would love you to do a early christmas, wine, and fish pairing show or suggest a few wines. Also what would go well with lasagna?

This is a first post for me so technically im not a lurker anymore, at least as a lurker i have gotten a lot of people to watch your show. I really appreciate everything you do and hopefully more people my age can get into wine and drink a tad bit less beer and popov vodka.

More $15 and under wine tasting please =)

QOTD: Grilled Swordfish. So simple and so fresh it was beautiful!!

A Turkey on rye sandwich and broccoli cheese soup from the Morristown Memorial Hospital the night my son was born. I was starving after my wife’s 10 hours of labor, when we went to the hospital I brought with me a Pride Merlot, went real well with the cafeteria food. I was so happy with the birth of my son!!!! A meal I will never forget!!!!! I kept the bottle!!!!

QOTD: The greatest meal I ever had was the chef’s tasting menu and wine pairing at Aqua in San Francisco – I can still taste the foie gras and the crab soufle. Yumm.

QOTD: The greatest meal I’ve ever had was in Australia. 300 day grain feed cattle, ridiculously good Aussie beer (and Wine of course) at a little street cafe-restaurant on the Queen Street Mall in Brisbane. At the time the Aussie dollar was worth about 48 cents, which made the picking up the check at the end of the day even better.

QOTD: The best meal was this last summer at Il Falconiere in Cortona Italy for our second wedding anniversary. Multi course meal, each paired with wine. Absolutely incredible!!

Another great show! Keep up the good work!

QOTD: 8 course tasting menu with wine pairings at the Ryland Inn … this is also the meal that really turned me on to wine

QOTD: This summer I had a chance to eat four or five different pizzas at Pizzeria Mozza in L.A. The place is NOT overrated. Wow.

Let me think best meal i ever had a porcupine casserole when i was in tuscany years ago married with a deep brunello enjoy your meal ! remember gary the first quality of a south of france wine it’s always the right sensations linked with affordable prices !

QOTD: Best meal was at Joel Robuchon’s place in Tokyo

QOTD: Best meal was at Joel Robuchon’s place in Tokyo

The best meal i have ever had was at Rutherford Grill in Rutherford California in Napa Valley. A great restaurant in california wine country, what more could u ask for?

Best meal I ever had was at Ben Benson’s in NYC. Ribeye – Medium Rare

My best meal remembered was 41 years ago. Fryed Chicken at little unknown restaurant in Canada, on our honeymoon going to Sudbury. It was crispy, tender and delicious it had a honey pineapple sauce.

It was off the highway in a small village. Sorry I can not remember the town either.

Big turn out on comments. I’m in. QOTD: Good o’l Italian dinner made by my late and great Nana. Home made sauce (or gravy as some call it), home made ravioli’s, need I go on? Food was made with love. No $500 wine, just basic jug red back then. All was good.

Another great show Gman. Thanks.

best meal I ever had was leg of lamb cooked by my mother on my 13th birthday.