QOTD: I would have to say Hoppes in Cambria. Six course chef’s special and wine pairing. Elk chop, alabone, foie gras, cheese plate, dessert, and other num nums. Good wine…great food… and great company… with my girlfriend. That is why I love food and wine because I never forget event like that. And many more amazing times to come. Thanks Gary!!! Good show!!!

QOTD: Greatest meal I ever had was at Toscana, a restaurant that no longer exists in Encino, CA. It was preview night, before they opened, and they invited my family to come test the menu. We got to try everything, every appetizer, every entree, coffee, wine, every dessert. We must have tried 50 things, and each one was amazing! And the bill: $0.00. Seriously, how can you beat that?

QOTD: Greatest meal I ever had was at Toscana, a restaurant that no longer exists in Encino, CA. It was preview night, before they opened, and they invited my family to come test the menu. We got to try everything, every appetizer, every entree, coffee, wine, every dessert. We must have tried 50 things, and each one was amazing! And the bill: $0.00. Seriously, how can you beat that?

Best meal I’ve ever had… bacon wrapped BBQ shrimp followed by a 48oz Porterhouse Steak with some Caymus Special Selection. People tried to talk to me at the dinner table, but I couldn’t hear them…I was all the way in heaven.

great show Gary. it is always fun to watch you spilling wine~

QOTD: I visited Korea a couple of years ago after I had been staying here at the state for 6 years. The dinner that I had with my parents on the day I arrived there was a just simple but the greatest meal that I’ve ever had.

Best meal I’ve ever had… bacon wrapped BBQ shrimp followed by a 48oz Porterhouse Steak with some Caymus Special Selection. People tried to talk to me at the dinner table, but I couldn’t hear them…I was all the way in heaven.

great show Gary. it is always fun to watch you spilling wine~

QOTD: I visited Korea a couple of years ago after I had been staying here at the state for 6 years. The dinner that I had with my parents on the day I arrived there was a just simple but the greatest meal that I’ve ever had.

Filet Mignon, Chairman Reserve aged 30 days and grilled at home.

I love it when you love a wine like that. I wonder if it’ll be gone by midnight.

QOD: dinner and a Pichon-Longueville vertical hosted by Mme Lencquesaing. Partially the food, partially the wine, partially the company.

Again, a great show. I don’t know how you can keep bringing the THUNDER day after day like you do but Iam enjoying the heck out of it.

QOTD: My Texas size family (Mom, Dad, sisters and brothers) took a dream vacation this summer together on an Alaskan Cruise with Regents Cruise Lines. We had what I thought was going to be a very simple western steak meal one evening that turned out to be the most breath taking steak I have ever had. It was called a “Cowboy Steak Dinner” but the meat was to die for. In my 50 plus years of life and travel I have never had anything that tasteful in my mouth before. The new potatoes and the baked green beans wrapped in bacon just finished the whole thing off just grand. I don’t even remember what wines we had but there was a few bottles of those too throughout the coarse……..

QOTD – Grilled T-Bone at Dill’s in Willmington

Greatest meal I ever had, is going to be with a $500 dollar bottle of wine. But my mother made an amazing sweet potato pecan casserole this Thanks Giving and I was never a fan of those casseroles before it before, and some how it made the top of my list for meals. P.S. I just bought the Saint Jean Du Barroux. Cheers

QOTD – It was a gorgonzola-stuffed angus beef tenderloin with asparagus at a local Italian place.

QOTD – It was a gorgonzola-stuffed angus beef tenderloin with asparagus at a local Italian place.

QOTD: I feel lucky that I still (hopefully) have several decades of good-food/wine experiences, but recently my husband and I went to Boulder, CO and had some awesome locally-raised rack of lamb. However, I can also braise a mean oxtail (raised on our farm) a la julia child.

Thanks! Hope I WIN!

Another great Ep Gary!

QOTD: Filet Mignon and Lobster @ Pappas Bros. in Dallas sometime last year.

The night I asked my inlaws if I could marry their daughter was BY FAR the best dinner of my life. I had them over to my one bedroom apt in college and served some amazing blue fin, caprese salad, and other goodies. They brought left over cake because they just thought that it was going to be beer and burgers!!!! Classic… It went down in history. I will never forget it…

i was vegetarian for 15 years when i broke it at Pacific Dining Car with surf and turf. by far, the best meal of my life.

QOTD: That would be at Le Crocodile restaurant in Vancouver. Started off with the Foie Gras appetizer paired with the Pffaffenheim Grand Cru Steinert Gerwurz. Then had oysters on the half shell with the Allan Scott Pinot Noir. Main course was a caribou tenderloin with the Carpenito Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon. Dessert was a fantastic Grand Marnier souffle. If you live in Vancouver or ever visit Vancouver you gotta go there.

QOTD: That would be at Le Crocodile restaurant in Vancouver. Started off with the Foie Gras appetizer paired with the Pffaffenheim Grand Cru Steinert Gerwurz. Then had oysters on the half shell with the Allan Scott Pinot Noir. Main course was a caribou tenderloin with the Carpenito Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon. Dessert was a fantastic Grand Marnier souffle. If you live in Vancouver or ever visit Vancouver you gotta go there.

The greatest meal I ever had was brochette of beef at the Carnelian Room in San Fransisco. Outstanding meal, much of it prepared at our table, with an absolutely incredible view of the city (it’s on the 52nd floor of a bank building)from daylight, through dusk, to darkness with the city all lit up. We were the guests of some special people – the only way we could ever eat at a place like that – and it was a meal I’ll never forget!

The greatest meal I ever had was brochette of beef at the Carnelian Room in San Fransisco. Outstanding meal, much of it prepared at our table, with an absolutely incredible view of the city (it’s on the 52nd floor of a bank building)from daylight, through dusk, to darkness with the city all lit up. We were the guests of some special people – the only way we could ever eat at a place like that – and it was a meal I’ll never forget!

QOTD: A dinner at Devi Restaurant in NYC. Having grown up on Indian food, each dish spoke to my earliest memories of smells and tastes, yet each had a twist, a paradigm shift. Some dishes seemed to frame familiar flavors in a new light, some pulled the rug out from under me. That was the first dinner where the food gave me more thought than the conversation. In fact, my friends and I ate largely in silence, and when we spoke… well it was about the food.

QOTD…A medium rare N.Y. strip steak, portabella and asparagus risotto, steamed spinach with butter and vine ripened tomatoes with olive oil and red wine vinegar and a bottle of Justin Savant

The greatest meal I ever had was the second date with my wife. We started our evening off with drinks at the Ritz Carlton in Dana Point, Ca. and then headed up the Pacific Coast Highway to Laguna Beach and had this fabulous Greek dinner at this little place called Aegean Cafe. I had a seafood dish and the prawns were as big as my arm, my wife had this incredible I believe it was Moussaka. The wines and the atmosphere were top notch.