re: What was the best meal you've ever ate?

Eleven Madison Park for my 31st birthday (drinking Cognac in the kitchen with chef and Somm after the restaurant closed) followed closely by Osteria Francescana (met Massimo as well). We hit both the year before they won best restaurant in the world...so the year they were judged upon.

When it comes down to it though, if I could choose my last meal...it would be a Central Grocery Muffaletta with a cold Barqs longneck with my family.

King crab cakes to start then a cowboy ribeye with loaded hash browns and a Caesar salad. Plenty of mint earl Grey tea toddies to keep things lubricated.

Key lime cheesecake for dessert.

Chester's chophouse. Wichita KS.

Steak and lobster at Hamilton's in PCB in the 90's. Cooked on a open fire right in front of us.

One of the hurricanes took it out a few years later.

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Something at a hunting camp

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Came here to say this. IDK why but food cooked on an open fire after you've been in the woods for a couple days is the best. Last year we were living on beanie weanies and ramen for two days before we shot 3 or 4 piglets. Roasted them whole and my god that was heaven.

Had to do it

My FIL is from Malaysia, so my wife and I went to visit some of her relatives in Kuala Lumpur. Having homemade Nasi Lemak and Mie Goreng will never taste the same outside of that dining room.

7 course tasting menu with wine pairing at Paul Bocuse. Fantastic experience

Too many to remember I’m fortunate to say. But recently had the Stuffed bell pepper at La. Lagniappe that was as good as anything I can recall.

most memorable and probably best is always going to be a dinner in Venice.

It was our last night and we befriended these firefighters that were guarding an Opera house (who nother fun story) anyway, we told them we were kinda being shut out of a lot of local places and they said to follow them.... 10 minutes down winding side alleys and we were at a tiny little restaurant with maybe 3 tables overlooking a quiet portion of canal. The fireman said a few things to the chef and from then on all was taken care off... had some excellent small bites that eventually culminated in from fresh made seafood ravioli for me and a pasta carbonara for my then gf (one day later she would be my fiancé). Night culminated in a some nice glasses of limoncello....whole thing start to finish was perfection.... everything complimented everything else.

Me and my wife will probably be talking about that dinner for the rest of our lives

Pedigree-wise, I'd have to say Le Bernadin.

But overall meal, I'd say the place we ate at in Venice, Italy one night. We were staying on the isle of Lido while in Venice and we went walking further into the heart of the island, away from the touristy area and stumbled into this little restaurant. No one in the restaurant spoke English and we spoke no Italian. Menu interpretation and ordering was all done via Google translate. The meal was phenomenal and some of the best seafood I have ever eaten. That was over 10 years ago and the wife and I still talk about that meal often.