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Hi Ed. I just found this post while trolling the web for Houston's Key Lime Pie recipe/ingredients. I waited tables in the Rockville, MD Houston's from 1993-1995. Having seen Houston's and more than a dozen independently-owned restaurants from the waiter's side of the table, I agree with everyone's positive comments about Houston's. It's one of my go-to spots when I want to treat myself (and I live in Manhattan).

Although more personal non-chain restaurants are great, only Houston's made me memorize each ingredient in every dish before letting me serve a customer. We had line-up every night where we were quizzed on the number of ounces in the coho salmon and the marinade for the Houston's Hawaiin ribeye. I learned how to give 110% to a job and what to expect as a guest in a restaurant.

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I'd want my best friends around, and we'd eat steak. Really really good steak. Prime rib or delmonico with a red wine and beef reduction. A delicious spinach salad. Some interesting fruity dessert, like the orange cardamom roasted pineapple we had at Solo. Yum.

Salmon with goat's cheese and a mixed green salad.

My last supper would have to involve my dearest family and friends. Also, because I've been doing the low carb thing, I would have to have all of the starches, pastas, fruits, breads, and desserts possible. Lasagna... spaghetti.... brownies.... fresh baked bread with honey... potatoes.... strawberries.... yum.

The "meal" would be quite eclectic - but would definitely include jumbo king crab legs, a variety of very fresh oysters, a steaming bowl of Pho, a platter of buttery roasted asparagus, wild mushroom risotto, a rack of lamb. filet mignon, grilled Alaskan halibut, linguine with clam sauce, a Cobb salad, authentic tacos with guacamole, blueberry pie, lots of chocolate and of course, Champagne and Beaujolais. I'd want my Mom, sister and her hubby, my "love of my life" husband to join the celebration and my Dad would be there in spirit. And I hope I have enough time left to think of all the yummy things I've forgotten here... By the way, could the last meal please be at least a week long?

Definitely at home with my family and I might as well have a little of everything if it's my last meal. Maybe some sushi, roast duck, dimsum, kalbi, lumpia, shish kabobs, manapua, malasadas, haupia, mochi, pickled mangoes ...

Steak, shrimp, salmon, loaded tater, corn on the cob, wheat rolls, strawberry/rhubarb pie with ice cream and caramel suce. I'd like to have dinner with the hottest band in the world KISS in NYC.

I would love to eat a grilled steak, potato and grilled zucchini oceanside with my best friend!

Fresh New England clam chowder, sitting around a beach campfire with my family :)

I would have my mom's chicken and noodles with mashed potatoes and green beans. Then for dessert I would have choclate ice cream. I would want to be enjoying the meal with my family.

A family meal, of course! I would make a buffet of all the foods I love, especially seafood and rich Italian food. THEN another table with all the deserts that I have missed watching the waistline. There would be music, laughter, tons of food- until that moment struck, and even then, I would want everyone to finish enjoying it all even in my absence!

Gumbo!