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Alphabetic town and related food game

Bend(Oregon) - crabs, shrimp, and oysters, I remember they were all fantastic
Banff - first introduction to flat bread there

Calgary Airport - my husband was gluten free and we stayed at the a hotel at the airport for the first night, Cambodian or Filipino restaurant that served mostly meat, they were good, but we had to look very hard to find a vegetable dish, we eat a lot of vegs.

Chelhentam - my first bacon sandwich, so easy, so effortless, simple and good
 
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Two Bs for me: Brussels and Barcelona.
Brussels was well over 40 years ago, but I distinctly remember a huge dish of mussels in a creamy green peppercorn sauce.
Barcelona (Spain, not Venezuela): amazing tapas, as TVC mentioned, especially in Cal Pep and Cervecería Catalana, but by far the best food was in El Passadis de Pep. A 9 course meal, seafood only, which included shrimp, giant deep-sea prawns, crayfish, razor shells, xonxos (whitebait), sea snails and free wine.
I'll get to C later, but Caracas will be first on my list.
 
Heck yeah Cairns - I shouldn't have forgotten that one as well as Canberra too - no comment on that though :)

And Calais - grief, had I know I was going to be doing this I would have kept a diary :D
 
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Speeding things up a bit and adding the D

Den Haag in the Netherlands (the hague for you guys) for absolutely amazing Indonesian food. It is the town were a lot of people from Indonesia settled after Independance
 
Darwin - Australia (Northern Territory) Only place for Grilled Barramundi

Grief I don't know - I've been to so many places over the years ....

Dorset - UK Fish and Cips of course :)
Davenport - Australia (Tasmania) Lobster from King Island
 
C for Caracas. In the 80s and 90s, we had some top class French restaurants: El Gazebo (run by two French chef brothers), Patrick's and Le Deuxiéme Étage. In the 90s, we had the best Thai restaurant (Samui) in South America, run by my friend Jean-Paul.These days, the best restaurant is called Cordero (which means lamb, or sheep) and rates 23rd in the top 100 restaurants in Latin America. Issam Koteich, the chef, has dedicated the entire menu to lamb; quite a feat.

D - I'll pass. As far as I can recall, the only town/city I've been to that begins with D is Dartford, Kent - which is about as inspiring as a sack of potatoes.
 
Ok, I’ll play (and catch-up at that):

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK - when we were stationed at RAF Upper Heyford back in the ‘90’s, we’d drive down to a restaurant in Aylesbury once a month for “American Night” - all the prices listed on the menu stayed the same, except they were, for that one night only, meant dollars, not pounds, so a burger that was, say, £9 became $9, which was a little bit of a reduction for us, and on top of that, we could even pay in dollars, so no need to do pesky conversions.

Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, UK - one of our favorite places to eat during that time period was a pub/restaurant in Buckingham called The White Hart…and MrsT liked it because it was one of the few places anywhere near us that had a salad bar (she likes salad bars, I’m finicky about them).

Columbus, Ohio, US - sat right across the street from each other are two of my favorite restaurants…Schmidt’s, a big German restaurant known for its cream puffs as big as your head and in about two dozen flavors, and The Mohawk, an upscale tavern that serves classic American dishes and excellent drinks.

Dayton, Ohio, UK - has to be Central Perc Cafe, a proper tea cafe, owned and operated by a couple originally from somewhere around Manchester, UK. No frilly US-interpreted idea of an English tearoom, this is more like a working-class diner, but with the usual tea cafe standards.

Edinburgh, Scotland - don’t remember the name, but way back in the ‘90’s, we’d driven up from England for a week or so, gone out to dinner to some Italian place recommended by the small B&B we were lodged at, and MrsT was very much off with her troublesome digestion. She asked the waiter if he could recommend something that would be mild and easy on her stomach, he disappeared, and a few minutes later, out popped the head of the kitchen, in his chef’s whites, asked MrsT several questions about how she was feeling, told her not to worry, he’d make something just for her, and he did (don’t remember what it was, but I know it hit the spot for her).
 
I’m adding B for
Bora Bora - fish seems predominant here, ceviche was my favorite

E is also for
Edinburgh,Scotland - Salmon and lamb were remarkable
 
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