Been thinking about a hunt trip my wife and I took to the New Zealand South Island, for Tahr, Chamois, and Red Stag. On our first night, we went to a restaurant where we had Red Deer, green lipped mussels, and Montieths Black ale. A better meal is hard to imagine.
When I was living/working in Ras Laffan Qatar we would drive out to a small village, Al Khor, and eat the finest Indian food ever. Usually four of us would go and order multiple dishes and feast. Memorable meals every one.
Kudu tenderloin and all the fixins on safari in Africa, I don't posses the culinary wisdom to even describe how good they were.
Kudu with langoustines (in garlic butter), roast potatoes, baby carrots and salad, accompanied by an ice cold Windhoek lager. My most memorable meal about 4 years ago in Stellenbosch at a wild game restaurant that is now sadly, closed.
I work in Mexico every other week. A few blocks from the hotel is an Argentinian steakhouse. 30 day dry aged ribeyes and French fries with a whole grilled onion, think bloomin onion cut, and basted in Worcestershire is hard to beat.
And it beats all to hell the ant larvae or guey worms the place next door serves.
About 10 years ago my wife and I were in Paris and went to a totally generic neighborhood place for dinner. They had something that was like a Shepherd's Pie, but it was made with Pheasant. Absolutely amazing.
Small pub in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, Guinness Beef and Mushroom stew, served with fresh hot brown bread with fresh local butter and a pint of Smithwicks on tap.Good comfort food. Second place goes to the Cuban Club in Gitmo, Pork Tenderloin chops with a mushroom sauce and rice. Damned good eats, and beat the galley chow hands down.
Piegari in BA Argentina couple different times. One time was when I had the honor of taking my step-father to Argentina touring him around the country with the help of my friend who hosted us at his different ranches. Phenomenal pasta, excellent steaks and absolutely excellent wine and champagne. Wasn't very long afterwards that my step-father passed away after a brief battle with cancer.
During the same trip we were working cattle and they made a late lunch for us over a wood fire in the barn. Ate right next to the chute. Extremely good asado and wonderful company with great friends including my step-father and my mentor that I also invited and took down there with me.
It's a tie between eland tenderloin cooked over mopane coals in Zimbabwe and a thick cut pork chop topped with king crab in Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia.
Beef tenderloin at a restaurant in Guadalajara Mexico.
I'm an airline pilot and do a lot of international trips. Generally I find better food outside the U.S. Recently I've had amazing meals at an Iraqi restaurant in Dubai and Indian food in Bangalore. The best consistently good place was Italy when I was stationed there in the military in the mid '90's. I never had a bad meal in Italy.
There are plenty of good restaurants in the U.S. but as a rule they're generic and serve too much processed stuff. A good local joint in most parts of the world is going to serve better stuff than most U.S. restaurants as long as you're open to trying new things and don't turn up your nose at foods that are unfamiliar to you.
Lizard Island, Australia. My wife and I celebrated our 15th anniversary with dinner on the beach. Oysters, kangaroo, cheese souffle, mussels and lentils, beef fillets. Dessert was a cheese plate, igloos with coconut sorbet and chocolate fondant.
The above was pretty elaborate, though I must say that everything I ate during 2 trips to Namibia was much simpler, but just as good.
It's hard to top genuine Kobe beef, but I have to say that the BEST meal I ever had was kid goat roasted over mesquite just across the Rio Grande in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Cabrito, rice, tortillas, and a pitcher of tequila sours all for about $5.
Cabrito is my all-time, runaway, favorite meat after that one meal - and has been for half a century now.
My first time in France many years ago. Spent two weeks there and can't say I had an acquired taste for French food, then I went down to Marseille. Best meal ever....Bouillabaisse in a little restaurant right on the water where the local fishermen bring in their daily catch. I have since tried Bouillabaisse in many places around the world....but nothing has compared since.
A simple plate of sausages and potato salad at the Augustiner Grossgastatte in Munich. Not so much because of the food, which was very good, but because of location, circumstances, and company.
It's hard to top genuine Kobe beef, but I have to say that the BEST meal I ever had was kid goat roasted over mesquite just across the Rio Grande in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Cabrito, rice, tortillas, and a pitcher of tequila sours all for about $5.
Cabrito is my all-time, runaway, favorite meat after that one meal - and has been for half a century now.
Out of respect for you i won't tell the two residents of my back yard of your barbarian taste buds.
Granted I've eaten in Mexico and it was good. And in Canada quite often, it was good too. And when I was young, we were in Europe here and there for a couple of weeks, I have not come away from any of them with anything that was just unforgettable. But then again I often consider food to be just a need.
That said relatives in BC served the first ever moose roast I'd had, I've been a sucker for moose ever since. And the first pirogi's I'd ever had and those rated fairly high.
Of course my tastes are pretty mundane, but I'll take fried catfish, halibut tacos, fried halibut, baked salmon, home made buttered noodles, cabbage and corn off the pit and so on over most anything most any day.
Had some beef tenderloin with demi glace and some sort of pastry with potatoes and wild mushrooms in it, in the Hell-hole of the Pacific, was probably the best meal in a restaurant.
The grass fed beef in NZ tops anything I've had in the U.S., and the lamb....
I'm envious of those who've eaten the African antelope at the source.
While living on my sailboat off of the Great Barrier reef we caught a 50 pound Bluefin tuna and invited a bunch of other yachties to a small island for a feast. Every boat brought something fresh caught.
The most memorable for me was actually on a dive trip in Thailand. We dove twice in the morning, anchored off a small island and waded ashore to an open air market / kitchen. I picked out what I wanted and they cooked it while we watched. We all sat at long tables feasting, and enjoying ourselves 30 yards from the water.