1 hour ago, Kerala said:Well that's a bunch of contradictory sentiments just in this post. To sum up, don't expect authentic food when you go out, and any authenticity you get depends on the cook.
I'll contradict myself again.There's a restaurant called Tamatanga in Nottingham which consistently puts out great Indian food from different regions. The cooks are not from all the various regions represented, or even Indian. The Chettinad chicken curry is spot-on; it could really have been done by a home cook from Kerala, and it is consistent the many times I have tried it.
So maybe you can get a good marinara sauce in New York.
But as Elizabeth Davd says: "It is useless attempting to make a bouillabaisse away from the shores of the Mediterranean."