what's the best ........?? you've ever had?

[charliecharlie]

Think I've just had my best steak and chips ever!

Went to the Magnolia last night (and no, I do not have shares in the place, nor am I the chef!)

and had the most delicious tasty plate of Frenchy-ness and was instantly transported into holiday mode.

I asked for medium rare and it was!, proper home made b?arnaise sauce with fresh tarragon.

Nice pile of chips and a big green salad with basil and parsley plus a perfect dressing.

Bloody brilliant(tu)

What is your "best I've ever had"? Does not have to be food....

xxcc

[mockney piers]

Bloody Mary:

The top floor bar at the Okura hotel in Amsterdam, one of the few places you can overlook the whole city.

Just.....divine......

[PeckhamRose]

Hyde Park and Margate Seafront.

Two one night stands, and we were standing. Can't choose between them.

Best motorcycle I have ever had, my current one. Virago.

Best chinese locally, (and I've tried them all) Moon Lam Hong on Cheltenham Road.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Sex?

With someone else?

Then Barry Road,Peckham and,obviously, Margate seafront.

Holiday? Across USA and Canada by Greyhound Bus for 6 Weeks (hoping to go back next month).

Musical? Oliver.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Domestic Advice? Keep the Lady happy as everything else will fall into place.

If the Lady isn't happy then you haven't got a happy home and on the same theme remember what many older Men told me was I was younger:

"Any Man who tells you that he is in control in the home is either a Liar, a Fool or more likely Both:))

[Mick Mac]

Best steak for me is easy - Porterhouse steak, Wolfgangs restaurant New York, best by a long way - served with the bone. About an inch deep, charred a little on the outside and rare on the inside.

Don't know what porterhouse steak is referred to here - may be t bone?

Second to that is most steak in France, cooked rare, always seems to be good, but I'll always remember the New York one as being the best.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Nope porterhouse her as well Mick Mac

I have bought them in (shhh...) The Butchers on Lordship Lane

Of course you risk being gunned down by chip-on-shoulder types - but a porterhouse is worth it

[charliecharlie]

[quote name='Nope porterhouse her as well Mick Mac

]

thought' date=' at first, you might be talking about keeping your woman happy, in ref. to TLS post!!

Guess what you really meant was.... Nope, porterhouse [b']HERE[/b] as well Mick Mac

Oh what a differnce a vowel makes>:D<

xxcc

[Mick Mac]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Nope porterhouse her as well Mick Mac

>

> I have bought them in (shhh...) The Butchers on

> Lordship Lane

>

> Of course you risk being gunned down by

> chip-on-shoulder types - but a porterhouse is

> worth it

Ok - cheers Sean - I thought that cut may not be the same here or maybe it was not available during "mad cow" years - I'll def try to get some from William Rose/or alternative. Doubt very much I'll be able to relplicate the standard it was cooked to in NY though, but I'll give it a go.

It recall it was a huge steak and only available for 2 people sharing!

[SeanMacGabhann]

It was huge, bone was involved but sharing it would be pushing it...

[Jeremy]

If we're talking porterhouse steak, it has to be Peter Luger's, Brooklyn (I believe Wolfgangs is one of several newer restaurants opened by former Peter Luger employees).

A porterhouse (US defintion) is very similar to a UK T-bone... with maybe a slighty higher ratio of fillet to strip-loin.

[charliecharlie]

Maybe the Magnolia could do a Porterhouse 'festival' for all the steak lovers...

http://www.epicurious.com/images/recipes/recipe_results/full/photos/106845.jpg

http://bbq.about.com/od/steakglossary/g/porterhouse.htm

nice to share...

xxcc

[candj]

Morton's in Chicago, definitely the best porterhouse, not that I would eat something so vulgar.

[Eliza.D]

Absolutely has to be the enormous butterflied langoustine I ate in a restaurant in Havana. It was grilled with just a hint of seasoning. It is without a shadow of doubt the best thing I've put in my mouth.

[Asset]

fnar fnar

[mockney piers]

Lomo steak in a cute little eatery just off the pleasant main square in Mendoza, Argentina.

Followed by a paseo round said square in the crisp, yet mild winter air there.

Best beef in the world.

[Mick Mac]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> If we're talking porterhouse steak, it has to be

> Peter Luger's, Brooklyn (I believe Wolfgangs is

> one of several newer restaurants opened by former

> Peter Luger employees).

>

> A porterhouse (US defintion) is very similar to a

> UK T-bone... with maybe a slighty higher ratio of

> fillet to strip-loin.

Thats correct Jeremy, but Peter Luger's was in Brooklyn and we had already been out in brooklyn the night before and therefore wanted to go local. Wolfgangs is in Donald Trumps top 5 restaurants in NY so not too shabby, but yes Peter Luger has the long standing reputation.

Sean - these US versions were huge - and only on the menu for 2 or 3 people sharing. We asked what was the best steak they had and they said it had to be the porterhouse, but don't seem to see it on the restaurant menus here.

[karter]

Charlies steak looked and smelled rather delish i must add and she took her time eating it which was rather a tease.::o

The best backgammon games i've ever had? Getting there, some great teachers out there.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> thought, at first, you might be talking about

> keeping your woman happy, in ref. to TLS post!!

>

> Guess what you really meant was.... Nope,

> porterhouse HERE as well Mick Mac

> Oh what a differnce a vowel makes>:D xxcc

Think you were right the first time;-)B)

[Michael Palaeologus]

Best steak - El Ceibo in Santa Ponsa, Majorca. A highlight in an otherwise unfortunate resort.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

charliecharlie Wrote:

What is your "best I've ever had"? Does not have to be food.... xxcc

Thought I'd re-iterate that last bit Chasx2...;-)

[Jeremy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> We asked what

> was the best steak they had and they said it had

> to be the porterhouse, but don't seem to see it on

> the restaurant menus here.

The T-bone (which is very similar) used to be pretty common, didn't it? Until the beef-on-the-bone ban was introduced off the back of the BSE scare. Not really seen it since.

[Cassius]

Best sushi I've ever had, top floor of the now gone Marriot hotel looking down on New York harbour.

[????]

..bet

?50 ew on Desert Orchard at 16s in the Gold Cup in the 80s that worked out at equivalent of over two months pay for me at the time

[bigbadwolf]

My best steak was covered in pepper sauce and I had that when I was 16 on holiday with my dad and uncle on the Algarve.