Restaurants around the world...

[marshal]

Whats the best restaurant you have ever been too?

For me; le champignon sauvage in chelthnam uk
Brilliant restaurant easily in the top 10 uk ,with 2 michellin stars, and 4 stars AA guide.
This restaurant is brilliant, not just the food but the ambiance, and service.
Your not made to feel like your not welcome like a lot of top restaurants.
And the price is not much more than your average restaurant for a lot more quality.
Have ate in many great places around the world but not many as good as this!

Lets hear some of your best restaurant choices from aroud the world.

[marshal]

Not long ago ate in a restaurant in delhi called bukhara, this place is in the top 50 restaurants in the world, while the food was good, it wasn't showstopping and we had better variations from the street.

Makes you wonder where they get critics from?

[bigmick22]

Foodland on Suk soi 5

[marshal]

Alright alright being serious here who gives a fuck anyhow if the foods good it counts

[stogie bear]

Best Thai food - Foodland, Srinakarin

Best Indian Food - The Face, Thong Lor

Best ribs and BBQ - Thong Lor

Best Gay posh nosh - Henri's, Covent Garden

Best Cheese selection and lunch grub - Ecclesall Road, Sheffield

Best food poisoning filthy dirt bags, Denny's, Mexico

Best lamb, 'The Argentinian', Mexico city

Best Margaritas - Ralph & Kakoo's, New Orleans

[Ladyboy_Loser!]

The French Laundry in Yountville California. I have never had a meal that came close to this restaurant. The tasting menu is the only way to go. Very expensive plus the added cost of staying in Hotel close by cause' you ain't about to drive back to the Bay Area after you have eaten there. I may never go back there but what memories I will carry with me.

[kahuna]

Any number of great restaurants in Yountville (and The California State Veterans Home)...Never tried The French Laundry...but up the road a bit, in the once Christian Brothers Winery, now the West Coast home of the Culinary Institute of America...where the famous chefs of tomorrow learn their trade...Magnificent food...Magnificent setting...

[katoeylover]

Fat Duck, Bray

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London,

Tom Aikens London

Have eaten in most of the uk's bestg, but these 3 stand out as the best and most consistent.

Best meal ever was at Harvey's in London, late 80's when Marco Pierre white was at his best.

Plan on visiting El Bulli and Arzak in the next year.

Would have loved to visit the French laundry 5 or 6 years ago, but now that Keller isnt cooking too regularly I would prefer to visit Per Se

[Guest]

Waltons on Walton St in Kensington and Maxims in Paris bring back memories of great food.

However I love Sunday lunch at Le Panoramique, Longchamp Racecourse, Paris or indeed The Green Man, Gt Easton near Dunmow in Essex.

Most fun I ever had was at School Dinners off Baker St in London, nearly choked to death with laughter while my Dad was thrashed by the headmaster for not eating his greens

[Looker]

I tend to appreciate restaurants which are nested in the countryside and genuinely making use of the local produces. I guess I would like the French Laundry in CAL as I saw it on TV and did impress me.
Recently I was at a nice place where they serve food entirely made with produces that they grown themselves. I enclose the site for your references: http://www.acpallavicina.com/relais/_eng/index_eng.htm
The place is nice. Sophisticated without being show off. Nice service without the attitude.
It may not make one of the best restaurant in the world but I certainly prefer it to some "famous names".

[Naang Faa]

My favorite place to eat (and most of the girls also) is this place..
this photo was took after i was picked up at the airport last year
(7am,thats why i'm asleep lol) and we decide to go here for
breakfast before going the Towers.. and some girls were there already
then a few girls returning from a night in Pattaya turn up and a car from
Ladyboy towers arrive also..no plans to meet there it just happened..
This restaurant is 80 kms from our home!!! but worth the drive..



All i know is it's in Chonburi,you stop on a typical busy Thai high street,slip between
two shoe stalls into a teak covered ally way (it's like going back 100 years) onto a jetty
on stilts on a river bend,and the only sound is the occasional longtail boat passing or a
goods train going over the bridge(which we wave at because we are miserable unhappy crazy
post-ops afterall lol)..
The food is delicious (mostly seafood though) but we do order everything they have on the menu, and the setting is gorgeous..we usually there for around five hours,chilling out at it's best!
(and why i was late for La Bamba )
x

[PigDogg]

Ploy Talay on Ko Samet.

Fresh fish, caught a few hours prior, cooked simply bubbling in it's own juice with a few spices and maybe lemon juice, not sure. Plus Beer Chang. Heaven on earth.

But what makes the experience special is that you're eating on the beach, not chairs on the beach, but sprawled out on the beach. Then at some point the locals put on a fire show. A great place to kick back and relax.

Never really enjoyed fancy NY restaurants, in general New Orleans has the best food in the States.

[PigDogg]

(stogie bear @ Jul. 07 2008,00:46) Best Margaritas - Ralph & Kakoo's, New Orleans

Lots of difference of opinion about the best Marg. For me I want it heavy on the lime juice and not sweet at all. Have never been to Ralph and Kakoos, maybe one of these days.

Talking about New Awlins, my favorite low key pub is Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. Best tasting Hurricanes IMO.

[marshal]

Some of you guys have just said the restaurants i can only dream of
I've had to settle for second best and have the cookbooks instead Have all of thomas kellers books,el bulli 94-97 and have a copy of azrak and soon to be released fat duck cookbook on order.

Have any of you visited alinea or moto in chigago?

Or wd-50 in new york?

I'm so fucking envious

Nearly made the fat duck 2years ago on the way to heathrow. But they were booked out a month in advance.

[kathylc]

(PigDogg @ Jul. 07 2008,23:22)

(stogie bear @ Jul. 07 2008,00:46) Best Margaritas - Ralph & Kakoo's, New Orleans

Lots of difference of opinion about the best Marg.  For me I want it heavy on the lime juice and not sweet at all.  Have never been to Ralph and Kakoos, maybe one of these days.

Talking about New Awlins, my favorite low key pub is Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop.  Best tasting Hurricanes IMO.

To have an establishment in such a "run down" looking place you know they have to be doing something right by serving the best there is or close to it. Folks that passs these types of places up don't know what they are missing in most cases.

Unfortunately in the Big Easy now, a lot of the original owners / entranpenuers are gone and other have taken over and its just too soon to tell what they are going to be like.