Best meal ever was at sparks in nyc. Great steak, great wine, great meal

Gary V, can you pm me whenever you have a chance? I have a HUGE request.

QOTD: My ex-girlfriend’s parents came over from France to visit us and we cooked for them. Great food, great people, great wine. I’ll never forget the look on her father’s face when he first tried the 1996 Meerlust Rubicon I served. He couldn’t believed it wasn’t high quality Bordeaux.

Gary V, can you pm me whenever you have a chance? I have a HUGE request.

QOTD: My ex-girlfriend’s parents came over from France to visit us and we cooked for them. Great food, great people, great wine. I’ll never forget the look on her father’s face when he first tried the 1996 Meerlust Rubicon I served. He couldn’t believed it wasn’t high quality Bordeaux.

QOTD- The meal that immediately pops into my head was cooked on one of those old Coleman stoves on a brisk morning outside on a trip we made into Canada. Somewhere near Lake of the Woods we pulled over and made bacon, potatoes, eggs and warmed up grandma’s cinnamon rolls on the tailgate in cast iron pans in the wilderness. Had to be 30 years ago but I still remember how good everything was. Or maybe it was just the location and company. . .

The best meal ever? Well, after Iâ??ve tried some of the better restaurants in my Swedish hometown, and some in New York, I have to say that i had my best meal ever was at a shabby old restaurant near the city of Massa Marittima in Tuscany. Me and my family ate an amazing, rustic mushroom soup and drank cheap red wine, and everything wasâ?¦just perfect! The best moments are not so much about fine-dining, foie gras and trufflesâ?¦as long as friends, family and loved ones are gathered, a water-based Italian mushroom soup can blow your mind!

The best meal ever? Well, after Iâ??ve tried some of the better restaurants in my Swedish hometown, and some in New York, I have to say that i had my best meal ever was at a shabby old restaurant near the city of Massa Marittima in Tuscany. Me and my family ate an amazing, rustic mushroom soup and drank cheap red wine, and everything wasâ?¦just perfect! The best moments are not so much about fine-dining, foie gras and trufflesâ?¦as long as friends, family and loved ones are gathered, a water-based Italian mushroom soup can blow your mind!

2;30am….Out all night party’in….Love’s biscuit…in Duncan Oklahoma….

2;30am….Out all night party’in….Love’s biscuit…in Duncan Oklahoma….

Komi in Washington DC, fantastic.

Campfire grilled King Salmon outside Port Angeles, WA. Hot springs and beer. 20 lb fish, 3 people, 5 days all fish diet.

The best meal I ever had was at The Park Steakhouse in New Jersey. My wife and I wanted to celebrate our anniversary a year prior to be being married (I know it sounds strange but we are strange), so we called my cousin who told us about his new restaraunt, and it was set. We did not however realize the great lengths he would go to to give us such a nice gift, including a tour of the kitchen and cellar, an explanation of courses (all nine), an extremely attentive sommelier, and a dessert that would make you blush. Part of the dinner included roses delivered to my wife by the staff, and a small cast iron stove being brought to the table with fresh biscotti baking on top of smoking hickory cinders.
Its been a year and a half since, the experienced changed me and is why I “got into” wine and food in the first place.

Love the show keep it up.

QOTD: Petit Fliet Mignon, garlic mashed potatoes, and asperagus with bernaise sauce! Melted in my mouth it was sooooooo good!

QOTD: I absolutely adore food, so that is a tough question. Probably the tasting menu at Daniel in NYC about 6 months ago with my wife celebrating our anniversary – phenomenal.

QOTD: Easy one: The woman I married made Fra Diavolo for me for our very first meal together. It was, and will always be, my favorite meal.

QOTD: I just loooove ground lamb cooked with pine nuts and garlic on top of some nice yellow rice cooked with a bit of olive oil.

I may be too late but the best meal I’ve ever had was at Cuistot in Palm Desert. Salmon Bocuse, Sweet Breads, Foie Gras, and Roasted Rack of Lamb all with individual wine pairings. Snap.

I worked at a hotel out of college and one of the perks was dinner at the hotel’s 3-star restaurant. Duck in raspberry sauce – and the first outstanding meal that I earned on my own as an adult.

Boy, what a response on comments. Guess everyone comes off the couch when it comes to getting something for nothing or free……..

Did you say MEH on that Castano?

QOTD – Almost impossible to say, I’ve already tried on the forums. If I had to choose one experience, not just the food but the location, the ambience & the company then I’d have to go for either of the 2 evenings I’ve had at Shmulik Cohen’s in Tel Aviv with my colleague and friend Yaron Lapidot. Eastern European dishes, we let the house decide what to bring us, took over 2 hours to get through the multiple courses and had homemade lemon Vodka to wash it down – absolute bliss.

Greatest meal might well have been last summer, in Tuscany:)

My gf and I went to Poggio Antico, a beautiful restaurant in the slopes, just before arriving to Montalcino.
We had an amazing zuchini risotto, to die for, a mixed plate sushi style of tuna, crab and veal..yup..
All of the above served with the 2001 Poggio Antico Brunello, so all in all, exquisite. On top of which, it was gorgeous outside, and from the terrasse where we were seated, we could see miles of beautiful, lush countryside, it don’t get better than that 🙂

chef’s table Emeril’s in NOLA is a memorable night. truthfully though i fonder recollections from many lunches.

ship The Masseto with great care. thx GV.

QOTD: It worked! A lurker coming out of the woodwork for this one. The best meal I’ve ever had was the New Year’s Day all-you-can-eat buffet at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. It was amazing. The variety went on for miles, but the pinnacle was the King Crab legs that were even already cracked open for you in the shell. I must have had 15 King legs! I was hurting bad from that meal, and I even skipped breakfast and lunch in preparation for it. A mere $54, and I think they lost a lot of money on me. Boy was it amazing.

The best meal that I’ve ever had was a steak I had at the Smith & Wollensky Steak House in Columbus OH. What made the meal so memorable was the company and the bottle of wine (wish I could remember the name).

crazy – i just read about montana legend in Smart Money magazine yesterday.

Best meal I ever had was at Il Mulino in Caesar’s in Vegas. They start you off before you even order with parm reggiano, mussels, bruschetta, etc.

The rest of the night, featuring my veal milanese, topped with arugula was fantastic. Plus, they filled their men’s urinals with ice, which is about the most fun you can have while pissing.

Vegetable korma and lamb masala at India Palace in Lawrence, Kan.!