Your Best Meal Ever – What and Where ????

Curious of what some of your best Meals ever where, and where you were at when eating them. I know that may be a hard one to pin down, But I’m sure there are a few that stick out if your minds. One of my most memorable ones was about 8 years ago on our last night in Treasure Cay in the Bahamas ( It make me sad that it was almost totally destroyed by hurricane Dorian last year ). We had spend the morning out deep sea fishing and had caught Wahoo, Mahi mahi, snapper, and Yellowfin tuna. We had also got some Fresh lobster and stone crabs the day before. In addition we hade a few Cowboy Rib Eye steaks remaining. All were grilled up and served with a local rice dish and fresh jonnie cake ( different in the Bahamas than I’ve had elsewhere ). All was washed down with cold Kalik beer. It was not a gourmet meal by any means. But due to the freshness and location, it was a memorable one.

im heading to Nassau next week. do you remember the charter you used? im looking for referrals
thanks

We spent our 5th wedding anniversary in Kohler, Wisconsin and had dinner at the Immigrant Restaurant. Duck French Onion soup, pheasant sausage, grilled pheasant breast with sweet cherry sauce and roasted squash. Port, Macrona almonds and cheese for dessert. It’s been more than 25 years and I still vividly remember the meal.

steveo wrote:

im heading to Nassau next week. do you remember the charter you used? im looking for referrals
thanks

We did not go out with a charter. My friends who have ( had ) a villa in treasure cay are friends with a local. he does ALOT of deep sea fishing out of a place Called Cheroke Sound. he was nice enough to let my buddy and I tag along with him on a outing. By far one of the most fun fishing outings I’ve ever been on.

Fresh venison tenderloins fried in butter with mushrooms and onions. After a successful day in deer camp with the guys is one of my favorites every year. Don’t get much better for this guy. Maybe wash it down with a cold one or two.

3am, Flameburger, french toast and hash browns.

Mom’s lasagna, don’t get no better !

My wife and I have been to Trevail Kitchen and Amusements twice now. Both times was a different tasting menu. You buy a ticket and you don’t order food, it’s all pre-determined and sometimes themed. We just took my mom as a Christmas gift and it was 26 courses I think.

Everything was perfect.

Deuces wrote:

3am, Flameburger, french toast and hash browns.

haha – X2, but ranch breakfast with browns and bacon

I cook a lot of great food but my death bed last meal request will be a BBQ cheese burger and fries.

Grandma’s pan fried venison and pancakes. 4:30 am every opening deer hunting saturday. God I miss her.

There’s so many to count. Billy and I took a road trip back in June 2013 to Glacier National Park. After driving 16+ hours from the park to a hotel in Sheridan, WY (on our way to Custer State Park in So Dakota) we were pretty tired. We arrived about 11pm and not much was open but we were starving! We ordered Domino’s Pizza and Barq’s Root Beer and ate in bed after we each enjoyed a hot shower. We camped our way through Glacier National Park in a tent so our room at the Best Western felt so luxurious! We woke up early the next morning well rested and headed east to So Dakota and we realized after many miles that we left our root beers in the mini fridge in our hotel room. We laughed about how that was such an amazing meal… and it was Domino’s Pizza in a hotel bed. What an amazing trip.

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Ribeyes on Isle Royale with team Send It.
Any meal on the Island is great for that matter.

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Bern’s steakhouse, Tampa Bay

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Take the kitchen tour and their ice cream. Make sure your wallet is full and your belly empty. Lastly, don’t miss the dress code rules. Shorts get you relegated to the bar.

One of the memorable ones for me (I loved food, but rarely wowed by anything).

Spencer and Co. Steakhouse. 2 years ago. About halfway between Kalispell and Whitefish, MT. Best steaks I’ve had.

Honorable mention is skillet fried lake trout over an open fire in the Quetico.

Pretty much any kind of fresh seafood seems to be near the top of the list for me.

On my honeymoon in 2015, we stayed at Tradewinds Resort in St Pete, Florida and caught a redfish that was in the keeper slot earlier that day fishing with a guide from Reel Animals. The resort grill prepared it for us, blackened with cajun seasoning on a bed of rice and a loaf of fresh baked bread. It washed down nice with a cold brew.

ELK BALLS wrapped in bacon on my job sites when I have a worthy contractor working with me

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Shore lunch in Ontario: walleye, fried potatoes, corn, beans, bread & homemade cookies. It gets no better.

Sylvanboat wrote:

Shore lunch in Ontario: walleye, fried potatoes, corn, beans, bread & homemade cookies. It gets no better.

X2 but I didn’t have any cookies. Dam I like cookies but Dean must of ate them.

Too dang many to choose from.

1) My grandma on my mom’s side (that side is from Australia) makes one heck of a crumbed lamb cutlet.

2) Going along with any time we’re down under, walking down to the seafood co-op and picking up fresh tiger prawns, oysters, etc. has led to some great meals as well.

3) Any time we shoot a deer, the next morning the menu consists of tenderloin fried in butter with cheesy scrambled eggs and toast. Nothing fancy, but I would be a liar if I said I didn’t think about that a few times before pulling the trigger…

In iceland a couple years ago, I kept a little brown trout (maybe 14 inches), simply removed the guts and put some wild blueberries that were growing everywhere in it. cooked it on a propane stove for a few minutes, no seasoning, but it was 100% the tastiest thing I’ve ever eaten.

Chateau Briand, side of hashbrowns with cheese and onion. Archie’s Waeside in Le Mars, Iowa… I have had a lot of steaks at alot of places and this is the best one for my money!

It never seems to me to be as much about what the meal was that made it memorable. It was the place I was and it was who I was with. It was also a lot about who I was then, as a person.

When I was a university student in the UK back in the early 1990s, I traveled with 3 other Americans to see the sights on weekends and breaks when the rest of the UK students went home. Our little group was in Edinburgh during a late October break and we got up early one morning and climbed to the top of Arthur’s Seat. We were treated to a fantastic sunrise over Edinburgh and the Firth was on fire all the way to the sea.

We climbed down and it was only 10, so we went into a little Cafe and by pure chance had the best full Scottish breakfast I’ve ever had. I remember even then thinking I want this to last forever. It’s no doubt all the more memorable because Jeff and Cris are both gone now.

I also had so many good meals at Kendall Palmer’s cabin in the Canadian tundra, that I can’t recall them all. Probably the best was watching my fairly fussy-eater son mow down meal after meal after meal for a week without even asking what it was, do I like this, etc. HH loves to fish and be outside, and he ate like a king for a week and I enjoyed it because he did.

Grouse

Filet Mignon (med rare) covered in a Gorgonzola/Mushroom Sauce at Alessia’s in Mesa AZ. I have never taken so long to eat a steak in my life….I savored every bite and can’t wait to go back.

Impossible for me to answer this one correctly but I can say the Tournedos Bearnaise at the Lake Elmo Inn would be near the top of the list.

I’ll let you know later on tonight, we’re taking the family to Ruth’s Chris for my youngest Daughters 30th.
I’m thinking Cowboy ribeye with the blue cheese crust and brussel sprouts.

Warsh er down with a Makers Mark ole fashion.

mark-bruzek wrote:

Ribeyes on Isle Royale with team Send It.
Any meal on the Island is great for that matter.

Mark, believe it or not this would go as one of mine as well… However it was with team Kick Ass at the Isle!!! We added fresh caught King Salmon with the Ribeyes. That is an incredible place.

Mac and cheese from Eli’s in downtown MPLS.

Sake Nigiri from Bagu in south minneapolis.

If you live in the twin cities and haven’t been to either you are missing out.

Matt Moen wrote:

Mac and cheese from Eli’s in downtown MPLS.

Sake Nigiri from Bagu in south minneapolis.

If you live in the twin cities and haven’t been to either you are missing out.

I’ve not been to the DT one but Eli’s East is right by my house. Great hangover food. Salmon hash and a pint will make you right as rain.

I will add BaGu to the list.

moustachesteve wrote:

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Mac and cheese from Eli’s in downtown MPLS.

Sake Nigiri from Bagu in south minneapolis.

If you live in the twin cities and haven’t been to either you are missing out.

I’ve not been to the DT one but Eli’s East is right by my house. Great hangover food. Salmon hash and a pint will make you right as rain.

I will add BaGu to the list.

Menus are different at the 2 locations. I very much prefer the downtown location. The roast turkey bacon sandwich with ghost pepper cheese sauce is phenomenal, too.