mycalicocat

The best meal I ever ate was in Maine. It was in an old house near the famed "rocky coast" with friends and we had two freshly boiled lobsters each (no sides at all) followed by strawberry short cake with a mountain of real whipped cream. I said at the time that it was the best meal I had ever had, and I haven't had one since that quite eclipses that one.
Still another comes close and that was on the ordinary side, when I had been working all day getting ready to move and a neighbor brought over beef stew and homemade bread.
 

My husband says one of the best in his memory was a barbecue rib plate at Johnny Harris in Savannah.
Mine would tie between The Jr. Varsity on Cheshire Bridge Rd in Atlanta and a salmon dinner at the Pink House in Savannah.
 

Also ranking high:
Chef Audrey's chicken salad on a croissant is the best chicken salad sandwich in the world, hands down.
Fresh Air Barbecue in Jackson is the best barbecue in the world. (Arguments expected, since this is a subject that naturally leads to fisticuffs.)
 

we had a whole series of best meals on vacation to the outer banks a couple of years ago. every place we picked was very different, but each surpassed the other. they varied from yuppie food at a restored victorian mansion to north carolina bbq to a picnic of stuff grabbed from a deli to barely catch the ferry. we didn't have a bad meal the whole week. we still savor the memory of that week of meals. unfortunately most of the outer banks blew away a few months later so i'm not sure if any of the restaurants are still standing, especially the breakfast on the pier place that we thought might collapse just from the weight of our sea bass breakfast.:)
 

I just saw a travel channel program on the outer banks and was thinking I wanted to go there. Did it really all blow away?
 

The Parker House in Boston, on our honeymoon. Steak with a crushed pepper crust for me, salmon with caviar for Sporcupine. We want to go back for our 25th and take the kids.
 

Best meal with normal appetite was classic from start to finish: shrimp cocktail, grilled filet-mignon, twice baked potatoes, and chocolate cheese cake.

Best meal after swimming: hamburgers on fresh rolls, baked macaroni and cheese with stewed tomatoes, chocolate pie with whipped cream AND apple crisp with whipped cream. (Capon Springs West Virginia, 24 years in a row).

Best meal while eating for two: Friday, October 13, 1989 at the Hamburger Hamlet, the special appetizer was "caviar skins," a version of potato skins with sour cream and two kinds of caviar, followed by green salads and big burgers. (Nora was a day late then, 10 days late when she was evicted.)
 

Gruntled does, however, have a point.
 

we haven't been back so i'm not sure what blew away and what survived. the storm did cut a couple of islands in two so it was a pretty bad storm. we did biloxi and the gulf coast the year before the outer banks, so we are beginning to wonder if we stir up storms or something. i know tha alot of the places we ate on the gulf coast did blow away because we saw the remains on tv.
 

cheeseburgers in paradise