Beer and Food, what do you pair?

Hello;

So I was reading an article on Cobra, the British / Indian Lager: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28439834 and I really liked this part of the article - 



'Lager too fizzy, ale too bitter'

A lover of beer since his teenage years, Lord Bilimoria was unhappy with the quality of British lager, especially when drinking it with a curry.

He says: "The lager was too fizzy, too harsh and too bloating. It meant that I couldn't eat or drink as much as I would like.

"At the same time, I found real ale to be great in a pub, but too bitter and heavy with food. So I came up with the idea of creating a beer with the refreshment of a lager, but with the smoothness of an ale.

I recently bought a 6 pack of "Dad & Dave's #1 Pale Ale" and I wasn't that in love with it (its fine, it just didn't have any real strong flavours to it), then when I had a second, but this time with some food (watching the Super Rugby Final) I really liked it - the gentle flavours worked with the fish cakes, oysters etc we had... then when I researched "Dad & Daves" it turns out one of them is a chef and then it kinda made sense why the beer worked with food, I wonder if they made this beer with food in mind?

I am wondering what a porter, or dunkel, would be like with a meat pie, that sounds like a good combo...

So, what food beer combinations do you like?