An Abner’s cheesesteak at 2:00 am on April 12, 1985 after drinking all night at the Jailhouse bar on campus. I don’t remember how I got there or got home, but that was the best god damn cheesesteak I ever ate.
Stucky
July 24, 2015 9:30 am
Hung Lo’s Chinese Restaurant in NYC … Kum Of Sum Yung Boi
card802
July 24, 2015 9:41 am
They saw Stuck coming, hope you gave a big tip.
Wyoming Mike
July 24, 2015 9:43 am
Yeah, Stuck’ll kill a buffet profit in a minute.
Stucky
July 24, 2015 9:48 am
BTW, that’s a favorite dish amongst Catholic Priests.
My mom made 10,000 excellent meals from scratch.
My jobs have taken me throughout the USA. I’ve eaten at the best restaurants from San Francisco to Miami, all at company expense.
How do I pick just one? I can’t. I asked Ms. Freud … she said the same thing.
Stucky
July 24, 2015 10:07 am
I had a damn fine meal at Wendy’s a while back.
TPC
July 24, 2015 10:07 am
I tend to eat mexican food wherever I go, either that or a burger joint, so the place I listed was about my only “fine dining” experience, other than our own home cooking of course.
San diego has some damned good fish tacos. Does that count as best food ever?
Billy
July 24, 2015 10:14 am
Rounding off for dinners I skipped or didn’t have time for, I’ve eaten about 16,000 dinners in my lifetime… literally.
And someone wants to know which one was the “best”….
Not trying to over-complicate this, but what metric are you using for “best”?
Most expensive? Best tasting?
After eating nothing but sand and MRE’s for weeks at a time, the so-so hot meal we got at the chow hall that first night after coming home from deployment was pretty fuckin’ good by comparison, even though it was only chow hall food…
If I had to put a finger on “best”, it would probably have to be Pfeffersteak our buddy Manny serves at his restaurant, the Sportheim over in Plienningen… damn fine cut of deer steak cooked exactly right with a peppercorn sauce (love the way the whole peppercorns ‘pop’ when you bite them). Crouquetten or german potato salad – your choice – they’re both equally good and both handmade right on premises. Also “radischien salad” – which is shredded fresh radishes with a light balsamic vinegar dressing. Fresh crusty bread and a Stuttgarter Hoffbräu Hefeweitzen…
That’s some good shit right there…
bb
July 24, 2015 10:32 am
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich I eat this morning as little bb eat his favorite smoked salmon dish. There is nothing like having a good meal with my cat.Gives me hope.
BUCKHED
July 24, 2015 10:34 am
Hmmm…one of the best was at Circa 1886 restaurant in the Wentworth Mansion for my 50th birthday .6 courses,started off with Foie Gras …ended with a killer blueberry souffle with creme anglaise . The lady across from me was a 5’8″ auburn haired beauty with green eyes…we had a blast that night.
The 2nd best was Boullibase at Hank’s . I ate there prior to my first chemo treatment .I knew the treatment was going to destroy my sense of taste and I wanted to have one of my favorite dishes before it all went down .
Montefrío
July 24, 2015 11:10 am
My breakfast this morning: it was proof I am still alive.
Bea Lever
July 24, 2015 11:42 am
I have eaten in some of the most famous and highest rated restaurants in the world, some were a culinary delight while others were all hype and no substance. But NOTHING (at least for me) can compare to the feeling I experienced a few weeks ago.
My posting bud Indentured Servant pointed me in the direction of NON GMO grits, which turned out to be a happy day in the Lever household. We had given them up years ago because the corn here in the US is GMO and not fit for human consumption.
We cooked the grits, slow for about 35 minutes, the house filled with that old familiar smell that brings back memories of Sunday breakfast when I was a kid. Diving into that pool of butter melted in the middle of my serving of grits, swirling it around and lifting the fork to my mouth was almost orgasmic. Hello old friend I thought as I savored the revered southern staple. Damn that was good, thanks I/S.
kokoda
July 24, 2015 11:52 am
Several dishes, all made by my mom. Restaurant food cannot compare to home cooking.
Niantic Bay Scallops, in a frying pan with butter so each scallop was blackened on all sides. Sea Scallops can’t begin to compare for taste and they contain. sand
flash
July 24, 2015 11:55 am
A quarter pounder with cheese after being in the field eating C-Rats for three months.
Axel
July 24, 2015 12:39 pm
Taco Bell. Fifteen minutes after landing at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station following arrival from Saudi Arabia after 7 months in the suck during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
harry p.
July 24, 2015 12:50 pm
Fogo de Chao this past February.
Dutchman
July 24, 2015 1:11 pm
Waldorf Astoria – used to go there when I was a kid with my grandparents.
Rib-eye steak at Chez Francios French restaurant in Great Falls, Virginia…but that picture of surf and turf has my mouth watering.
For home-made, I like my own crab imperial.
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Bea Lever
July 24, 2015 2:38 pm
Damn Rise, can you share that recipe someday ? If it is as good as it looks……Holy shit !
Can anyone tell I have not eaten lunch?
Rise Up
July 24, 2015 3:25 pm
Bea, here’s a couple of recipes. I always have a hard time getting the consistency of the topping just right (meringue-like). The ratio of butter:mayo has to be just right. The 2nd recipe below doesn’t use butter, which I always use but will try that one next.
My dear late Mom’s fried chicken. First she used an axe to cut off the chicken’s head. Plucked the feathers, drained it, then brought it in the house & cut it up. Battered in her special blend with eggs & flour. Fried to a golden brown in her big cast iron skillet in crisco.
And then she discovered TV dinners 🙁
BUCKHED
July 24, 2015 3:55 pm
Bea…cook the grits in 1/2 cream and 1/2 water…mmm good. Let the leftover grits sit in the fridge and bring them back to life with warm cream…if you do this on the stove it’s known as twice cooked grits .
My sister in law cooks them on low in a slow cooker . We have shrimp and grits Christmas day for breakfast ( family tradition ) .
TE
July 24, 2015 4:46 pm
What a great question!
I would have to say that anything cooked over a fire after a long day of play or work (or combination) in the sun and wind is “the best” ever. Ever in that moment.
I’ve found that the hungrier and more exhausted (or drunk) I am, the better the meal tastes. Which probably explains why Denny’s tastes great at 3 a.m, but horrible at 3 p.m.
Lysander
July 24, 2015 5:34 pm
Any meal at the New Milford Diner in (Where else?) New Milford CT. Their liver and bacon is awesome. One other thing….the Man who seats you and runs the register has total recall. Once, I hadn’t eaten there in 10 years and he addressed me by my name and told me the liver was especially good that night.
That blew me away. Especially now. I can’t remember shit.
BEA LEVER
July 24, 2015 5:40 pm
Buckhed
I gave up shrimp also, don’t know where they come from anymore and I won’t eat the skanky nasty shrimp coming out of Viet Nam or China. If there is a sure fire way to find shrimp that is of clean origin, let me know. I think you can understand my experience after not having grits for many years.
Will try your method of cooking grits, sounds great.
BEA LEVER
July 24, 2015 5:51 pm
Rise Up
(No lie) Just reading the recipes for that crab dish I started to drool as I still have not eaten at almost six o’clock. Looks pretty simple, can’t wait to try it. Thanks
BEA LEVER
July 24, 2015 6:02 pm
Dutchman must be one of those hoity toity’s if he ate regular at the Waldorf. Back in the late 60’s a tossed green side salad was 5 bucks there. At that time, you could feed a family of four all week including paper goods from the grocery for around 10 to 12 dollars (and I mean good meals not sandwiches).
IndenturedServant
July 24, 2015 8:05 pm
That’s a tough one. My mother’s lasagna was off the charts good. Just about and meal of Spanish food I ate while living in Spain is damn close to the top. I can’t even recall eating anything there that I did not like. How they get such depth of flavor in such simple foods is nothing short of amazing.
On a consistent basis though my wife makes the best meals.
There is one meal that stands out in my mind though. It was Thanksgiving day in 1978. I was eleven and my father and I were out hunting deer in the mountains west of Great Falls, MT. We had been out for several days hunting in about 2′ of snow. It was brutally cold in camp, so cold that we moved the lantern and stove into the canopy covered bed of the pickup truck. The menu was green beans, potatoes sliced and fried in an ancient cast iron skillet with green peppers and onions and fresh venison heart. Maybe it was the cold or the great time I was having on a rare solo trip with my dad but I vividly recall how delicious it was and I even said so at the time. Thirty seven years later I can still taste it.
Five Star, Triple A dining at Victoria & Albert’s at the Grand Floridian in Walt Disney World.
It was a massive multi-course meal….7 course? Actually 8, if you include the hand made “candies” that were at the end of it all.
Out of the whole spread, I think my favorite was the scallops on a bed of ratatouille.
My second: I made a wilderness stew last winter, morels, backstrap deer steak, onions, garlic, and small yukon potatoes.
It was fucktardedly awesome.
An Abner’s cheesesteak at 2:00 am on April 12, 1985 after drinking all night at the Jailhouse bar on campus. I don’t remember how I got there or got home, but that was the best god damn cheesesteak I ever ate.
Hung Lo’s Chinese Restaurant in NYC … Kum Of Sum Yung Boi
They saw Stuck coming, hope you gave a big tip.
Yeah, Stuck’ll kill a buffet profit in a minute.
BTW, that’s a favorite dish amongst Catholic Priests.
My mom made 10,000 excellent meals from scratch.
My jobs have taken me throughout the USA. I’ve eaten at the best restaurants from San Francisco to Miami, all at company expense.
How do I pick just one? I can’t. I asked Ms. Freud … she said the same thing.
I had a damn fine meal at Wendy’s a while back.
I tend to eat mexican food wherever I go, either that or a burger joint, so the place I listed was about my only “fine dining” experience, other than our own home cooking of course.
San diego has some damned good fish tacos. Does that count as best food ever?
Rounding off for dinners I skipped or didn’t have time for, I’ve eaten about 16,000 dinners in my lifetime… literally.
And someone wants to know which one was the “best”….
Not trying to over-complicate this, but what metric are you using for “best”?
Most expensive? Best tasting?
After eating nothing but sand and MRE’s for weeks at a time, the so-so hot meal we got at the chow hall that first night after coming home from deployment was pretty fuckin’ good by comparison, even though it was only chow hall food…
If I had to put a finger on “best”, it would probably have to be Pfeffersteak our buddy Manny serves at his restaurant, the Sportheim over in Plienningen… damn fine cut of deer steak cooked exactly right with a peppercorn sauce (love the way the whole peppercorns ‘pop’ when you bite them). Crouquetten or german potato salad – your choice – they’re both equally good and both handmade right on premises. Also “radischien salad” – which is shredded fresh radishes with a light balsamic vinegar dressing. Fresh crusty bread and a Stuttgarter Hoffbräu Hefeweitzen…
That’s some good shit right there…
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich I eat this morning as little bb eat his favorite smoked salmon dish. There is nothing like having a good meal with my cat.Gives me hope.
Hmmm…one of the best was at Circa 1886 restaurant in the Wentworth Mansion for my 50th birthday .6 courses,started off with Foie Gras …ended with a killer blueberry souffle with creme anglaise . The lady across from me was a 5’8″ auburn haired beauty with green eyes…we had a blast that night.
The 2nd best was Boullibase at Hank’s . I ate there prior to my first chemo treatment .I knew the treatment was going to destroy my sense of taste and I wanted to have one of my favorite dishes before it all went down .
My breakfast this morning: it was proof I am still alive.
I have eaten in some of the most famous and highest rated restaurants in the world, some were a culinary delight while others were all hype and no substance. But NOTHING (at least for me) can compare to the feeling I experienced a few weeks ago.
My posting bud Indentured Servant pointed me in the direction of NON GMO grits, which turned out to be a happy day in the Lever household. We had given them up years ago because the corn here in the US is GMO and not fit for human consumption.
We cooked the grits, slow for about 35 minutes, the house filled with that old familiar smell that brings back memories of Sunday breakfast when I was a kid. Diving into that pool of butter melted in the middle of my serving of grits, swirling it around and lifting the fork to my mouth was almost orgasmic. Hello old friend I thought as I savored the revered southern staple. Damn that was good, thanks I/S.
Several dishes, all made by my mom. Restaurant food cannot compare to home cooking.
Niantic Bay Scallops, in a frying pan with butter so each scallop was blackened on all sides. Sea Scallops can’t begin to compare for taste and they contain. sand
A quarter pounder with cheese after being in the field eating C-Rats for three months.
Taco Bell. Fifteen minutes after landing at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station following arrival from Saudi Arabia after 7 months in the suck during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Fogo de Chao this past February.
Waldorf Astoria – used to go there when I was a kid with my grandparents.
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Rib-eye steak at Chez Francios French restaurant in Great Falls, Virginia…but that picture of surf and turf has my mouth watering.
For home-made, I like my own crab imperial.
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Damn Rise, can you share that recipe someday ? If it is as good as it looks……Holy shit !
Can anyone tell I have not eaten lunch?
Bea, here’s a couple of recipes. I always have a hard time getting the consistency of the topping just right (meringue-like). The ratio of butter:mayo has to be just right. The 2nd recipe below doesn’t use butter, which I always use but will try that one next.
http://www.oldbay.com/Recipes/Crab/Main-Course/OLD-BAY-Classic-Crab-Imperial
http://www.askchefdennis.com/2012/05/maryland-jumbo-lump-crab-imperial/
My dear late Mom’s fried chicken. First she used an axe to cut off the chicken’s head. Plucked the feathers, drained it, then brought it in the house & cut it up. Battered in her special blend with eggs & flour. Fried to a golden brown in her big cast iron skillet in crisco.
And then she discovered TV dinners 🙁
Bea…cook the grits in 1/2 cream and 1/2 water…mmm good. Let the leftover grits sit in the fridge and bring them back to life with warm cream…if you do this on the stove it’s known as twice cooked grits .
My sister in law cooks them on low in a slow cooker . We have shrimp and grits Christmas day for breakfast ( family tradition ) .
What a great question!
I would have to say that anything cooked over a fire after a long day of play or work (or combination) in the sun and wind is “the best” ever. Ever in that moment.
I’ve found that the hungrier and more exhausted (or drunk) I am, the better the meal tastes. Which probably explains why Denny’s tastes great at 3 a.m, but horrible at 3 p.m.
Any meal at the New Milford Diner in (Where else?) New Milford CT. Their liver and bacon is awesome. One other thing….the Man who seats you and runs the register has total recall. Once, I hadn’t eaten there in 10 years and he addressed me by my name and told me the liver was especially good that night.
That blew me away. Especially now. I can’t remember shit.
Buckhed
I gave up shrimp also, don’t know where they come from anymore and I won’t eat the skanky nasty shrimp coming out of Viet Nam or China. If there is a sure fire way to find shrimp that is of clean origin, let me know. I think you can understand my experience after not having grits for many years.
Will try your method of cooking grits, sounds great.
Rise Up
(No lie) Just reading the recipes for that crab dish I started to drool as I still have not eaten at almost six o’clock. Looks pretty simple, can’t wait to try it. Thanks
Dutchman must be one of those hoity toity’s if he ate regular at the Waldorf. Back in the late 60’s a tossed green side salad was 5 bucks there. At that time, you could feed a family of four all week including paper goods from the grocery for around 10 to 12 dollars (and I mean good meals not sandwiches).
That’s a tough one. My mother’s lasagna was off the charts good. Just about and meal of Spanish food I ate while living in Spain is damn close to the top. I can’t even recall eating anything there that I did not like. How they get such depth of flavor in such simple foods is nothing short of amazing.
On a consistent basis though my wife makes the best meals.
There is one meal that stands out in my mind though. It was Thanksgiving day in 1978. I was eleven and my father and I were out hunting deer in the mountains west of Great Falls, MT. We had been out for several days hunting in about 2′ of snow. It was brutally cold in camp, so cold that we moved the lantern and stove into the canopy covered bed of the pickup truck. The menu was green beans, potatoes sliced and fried in an ancient cast iron skillet with green peppers and onions and fresh venison heart. Maybe it was the cold or the great time I was having on a rare solo trip with my dad but I vividly recall how delicious it was and I even said so at the time. Thirty seven years later I can still taste it.