The best dessert you ever had
 

What is the best dessert you've ever had and where did you eat it?
The best I've ever had was at Harry Careys resturant in Chicago.
It consisted of a bownie, with aa large scoop of vanella ice cream covered in hot fudge.

Lemon-lime cheesecake at a family owned restaurant in Tuscany. I kid you not, I've eaten great meals on 5 continents, I've been to 49 US states and 58 of the 60 largest cities in the US, and I've never tasted anything so sublime.
I have no idea what was in it.
I was there with a large group of friends and the opinion was unanimous.

In the US I'd say the melted chocolate/caramel torte at Aureole, and several of the pastries at Gramercy Tavern in NYC.

Pastel rufina at Border Grill, Santa Monica CA. Or the Bananas Foster at Shenandoah Café, Long Beach CA. Or just about anything at Christy's Ristorante, Long Beach CA (she's Sonny Bono's daughter, so she knows her way around a restaurant).

Warm Nectarine Crepes with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream at Palace Kitchen in Seattle.

Passionfruit soup at Feinschmecker in Oslo. The restaurant has one star in the Michelin guide.

Some kind of yogurt (with a touch of brandy? I think and sugar) topped with cubes of mango at a game lodge in South Africa.
Different but oh so tasty. Really.

Over the weekend I had 2 very good ones - a chocolate chip cookie in its own pan topped with ice cream, whipped cream and hot fudge. Got this at Bubba Gumps in Charleston. Was suprisingly good by the way.

The other was the peanut butter pie at Denny's! Yummy!!!!

Stoilichnaya and Kahlua cheesecake with caramel drizzle at the Four Seasons Nevis.

Hot Fudge Sunday-Serendipity NYC
Mousse au chocolate-StBenoit Paris Fr

Hula Pie at Dukes Canoe Club in Waikiki!!. The atmosphere with the fudge and macadamia ice cream--yum yum!!!!!

The best cheesecakes; mango, butterfinger, and chocolate w/vodka sauce, at Hola Asia in Puerto Morelos, Mexico.

Magnolia's restaurant in Charleston, SC. It was benne wafers topped with vanilla ice cream (there may have been some type of chocolate cake in there as well - it's been awhile) and strawberry sauce. It was so good that I almost cried. Seriously.

Frozen-Chocolate Covered Key Lime Pie
Duval Street
Key West, Florida

So many choices.

The first memorable dessert was a Napoleon from the Watergate bakery served at the National Gallery of Art in DC. I was 11-12 at the time. Never had one before and they are hard to find where I live -- and that might be a good thing.

The Key lime milkshake from the 'Robert is here fruitstand' in ??? Florida (between the Everglades and the drive to the Keys) was a great introduction to 'real' key lime goodies.

At a little cafe (though that makes it sound better than it wsa) in St. James Park in London that had excellent pasteries made on site. The place didn't look more than a service place, but it was excellent.

And there was a time on a family vacation in Colorado where we stopped to have cocoa and sticky buns. Not the 'top' dessert of all time, but the view was wonderful and it was the first family vacation in a long time. I was still in college and my brother's first vacation after starting a 'real' job. So it was nice having everyone together.

Again, so many....

A lemon tart in a gorgeous hotel dining room in Sarlat, France.

Home-made peach ice cream in my grandmother's back yard.

Hot fudge sundae cake (pound cake topped by - you guessed it) at the gone-but-not-forgotten Tiny Naylor's cafe in LA CA.

Fresh picked blueberries, consumed while camping on the tundra in central Alaska. The skeeters were gone and the bears were busy. We used up the rest in the pancakes the next morning.

Crepes filled with banana and vanilla ice cream, topped with Tia Maria and chocolate sauce.

Sweet Bite Cafe in Negril, Jamaica.

Fantastic and simple.

Bread and butter pudding in Red Fish Grill, New Orleans.

Paradise Pie in Chilli's, Maidstone, England.

My mum's special fruit cake! :)

bread pudding souffle at Commanders Palace, NOLA!

From a Bakery in the the small town of Falkland, Scotland...wish I knew the name of it...a brownie like bar-only no chocolate-with a crumbly base and a thick layer of caramel on top. My husband and I called it "magical". OK, might have helped that we were eating it in front of Falkland Palace. Hey EnglishOne-can you tell me what this is? It was very popular in bakeries in Scotland. Oh ya-and "flapjacks" in England and Wales-deee-LISH!

Ani: I'm inclined to think it's Sticky Toffee Pudding, but I may have the layers completely wrong.

I forgot to mention that the flans at Border Grill are also great. Oh yeah, I also had a killer crème brûlée at Bono's (yes, Christy's Long Beach homage to her dad Sonny's Palm Springs resto). Gotta love those custards!!