leechase

The best dessert I ever had was Pavlova in Belfast.Mmmmmm. It was sooo good. Although I believe it is an Australian dessert.

Karen

Sticky toffee pudding in the most beautiful pub I've ever seen, located in Broughty Ferry(Dundee), Scotland.

Spanky

Wild strawberries and clotted cream at The Ritz in Madrid. Now mind you, we don't usually dine at the Ritz, but after 10 days travelling through Spain we ended up in Madrid with extra money left over in our budget for food. Why not treat outselves to a fancy meal we thought...and have a lingering special last evening in Madrid before our flight the next morning. It turned out to be just that...I was 5 months pregnant with our first child and you would have thought that I was a slender, sexy woman the way that the Spanish head waiter led us to the best table in the heart of the garden right by the three piece orchestra. The garden restaurant was right along the main thoro-fare and you could hear the traffic through the high brick wall, but inside we were transported to an earlier century. The food was fantastic, each time a utensil was put down after use, it was replenished immediately ... service was exemplary and the music was divine. My husband and I still talk about the meal and the fantastic dessert which capped a wonderfully memorable final evening of our Spanish adventure.

Sheila

Broughty Ferry!!! You must be joking! Name names..which pub???

sandy

Torta di mele with vanilla gelato at U Giancu near Rapallo. Simple and delicious.

sue

Joanna,
The best desert I have EVER had was in Europe at the Ritz in Paris. It was a type of berry crumble with cinnamon ice cream ! Incredible !

Joanna

Mmmm .. thanks for the delicious replies. They all sound mouth watering.

kathy

a wine glass of hot coffee with a scoop of vanilla gelato in a small restaurant near the Campo di Fiori in Rome.

lynn

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Tiramisu at a tourist cafe in Paris.

Our dinner was cold and very mediocre but this dessert was the best Tiramisu I've ever had. I haven't found one as good yet but I keep looking!

Deena

My votes are for the Sacher Torte at Hotel Sacher in Vienna and the rich Tartufo at Tre Scalini in Rome! Best Gelato? My choice...Vivoli's in Florence.

Mary Ann

I second the sacher torte but it is a tie with the Chocolate Mousse in Monte Carlo at the Cafe du Paris (I think), the one right next to the casino!

topper

yummy!

elvira

Peach mousse at a restaurant in Les Eyzies; my sister got trifle which she swore was the best thing she'd ever eaten in her life. (The whole meal was the best I've ever had - appetizer to dessert).

Floating islands in Grimaud.

Chocolate cakey thing in the restaurant on top of the Samaritaine.

The fruit salad that one of the Loons made at our house in the Dordogne. The best peaches, the best melon, the best strawberries, the best raspberries...

Oh great now I'm hungry, and all I've got are stale Girl Scout cookies.

RolyPoly

Well, I don't like to plug French restaurants, but ... a charming lidded ceramic pot, containing a layer of wild strawberries set on a honey jelly, atop a vanilla creme anglaise. Les Loges de L'Aubergade, what a place, Puymirol, Lot et Garonne, France.

Nearby, in Cordes, a chap called Yves Thuries ran a restaurant which serves a Menu Douceur - starter, main course, 4 puddings. Be fair, he could do puddings too.

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yum ... almost dinner time ...

Thyra

So many desserts, so little time!!!!! However, in between the chocolate crepes , gelato and the pastries there was one thing that really blew this chocoholic away. Maybe a friendly Fodorite can tell me what it was. It was, so the hotel told us, a traditional Hungarian dessert, (served at our hotel on the Pest side of Budapest) it was creamy custard, some kind of spiced cake with nuts and cinnamon, drizzled generously, and I DO mean generously with homemade rich, chocolate sauce, topped with fresh whipped cream and more nuts and cinnamon. It was layered, kind of like Tiramisu but it came in a bowl..For the life of me I can't remember what it was called, but I do remember we had it every night we were in Hungary. If anyone has any idea what I am talking about please let me know, but oh my gosh!!! That dessert was heaven!

Beth Anderson

hands down, creme brulee in Bayeux. The restaurant was Le Petit Normand. oh my gosh was it good. It was all I could do, NOT to lick the serving dish and ask for more. Normandy is the farmland of France, you bet they are going to have the freshest milk and the best creme desserts...

my mouth is watering...

John

Was in the USA @ Left at Albuqurque Burlingame, CA. Called kreem brulee, but was Kreem brulee (cool) wrapped in a hot, crispy chocolate tortilla.

Linda

Treacle sponge with custard at Rules in London (and the roast beef and Yorkshire wasn't half bad either).

topper

Memories.....