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Top 5 dishes you have been served at a restaurant, takeaway or Turkish meat emporium...

Filleto Rossini (La Carbonara - steak, pate, massive crouton, lush gravy)
Various Dim Sum (The Dorchester)
Monk fish in Thai sauce with noodles (Seafood Cafe, St Ives)
Pheasant and trimmings (Three Crowns)
Veal Saltimbocca (somewhere in Venice)

Haddock and Chips (York Road chippie)

Fabio's do a lovely saltimbocca.

A nice rack (of ribs) in hooters, nottingham.

there is a lush chinese in dawlish that i use when down there(the name escapes me).doesn't look much from the outside but it's the best chinese food i've ever had.not like the greasy shit that makes you feel ill in swindon.

Best meal I ever had was a seafood restaurant in Rome, they just bring you platefuls of fresh fish and shellfish.  Washed down wish huge amounts of wine.  Terrific.

Closer to home (for me) there's a tapas restaurant in Cardiff called Pica Pica.  Simply stunning.

Tapas is shit.

Steak at the Rib Room at the Carlton Tower in London...unquestionably the best meal I've ever had.

You should know....

Battered haddock and chips from the York Road chippie, with loads of ketchup.

I'm working class, me.

I'm lucky enough to get restaurant quality food at home. I don't think I could pick my top 5 meals out, I've had so many.

Strangely, I found restaurants in Rome (bar a couple of exceptions) somewhat so-so.

The Breakwater Bistro in Brixham - Mackerel and crab straight from the local anglers.

To be honest me too.  Spent three nights, had that one great meal and two very ordinary, could have done this at home types.

Know it sounds silly but it depends on how hungry you are...i was really hungry late in Liverpool while working and baught some Scouse at a chippy...basicly a stew but years on i still remember how nice it tasted.....The best meal ive ever tasted was Coq cassoulet in Paris,basicly a chicken casserole made with cockeral....the gravy is made with a red wine and has challots and potatoes....Tres Bon!

In no particular order, because they were all very good:

BBQ Baby Back Ribs at Tony Roma's in Fuerteventura
Rabbit with mustard sauce (Lapin à la moutarde) in a restaurant in Prague
Chicken Chilli Massala at the Maharajah curry house in Purton
The fillet steak served at the hotel I stayed at in Cuba

Best curry I've ever had was at Tayyabs in Whitechapel. I will have to go back some time, cheaper than the con which is Brick Lane too.

Best is a bit hard to quantify. I guess quality wise it would have to be the meal I had a Gordon Ramsay's Royal Hospital Road gaff.

But my favourite/most memorable meals were also the cheapest.

Ribs N Steak in some place on Fort Worth. Well it is Cowtown.

Salt and Pepper chicken in some place we went into in Hong Kong because we couldn't find the restaurant we were looking for. Walked in and it was full of locals. Luckily they had English menus.

Some Korean table top BBQ place in New York. God knows what we ate and the women serving pissed herself laughing because we didn't twig the lettuce leafs were supposed to be used like a pancake to wrap your food in.

An Italian in Blackpool, La Piazza II in Bispham. The bloke who runs it is superb, which makes the atmosphere superb. It's a small place but we always go there if we go up that way.
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Sounds a bit 'look where I've been', but the truth is we don't normally go anywhere special at home. Harvester and Pizza hut aren't going to make it on anybodies list.

Yeah I am well jealous of you going to Blackpool!

-mushroom pizza from rays pizza in new york
-cheese and potato pierogi from a little side street cafe in krakow
-mock"chicken" and mushroom pie from the little vegan cafe in bristol.
-chocolate sponge and custard offshore restaurant (butlins) (thats no lie)
-Anything from cafe a la mum

That would be my choice, also.

I had pierogi from a little side street  cafe in Krakow too, Chubbs - ridiculously cheap and extremely delicious.
Cioppino /clam chowder in Aliotos, San Francisco
Seafood platter from the Morefield Motel, Ullapool
Fish and Chips from Keswick
Chateaubriand from Old Swan hotel Minster Lovell, about 25 years ago, before they decided to ruin the place by making it into a conference Centre.

I've had Pierogi in krakow as well - terrific stuff and a fine city too.

Hmp Dorchester do a lovely Ravioli and chips

Did you try the Porridge?

Are you local to there? Wherebouts?

I wouldn't bother. Them exotic holidays aren't all they are cracked up to be.