"This was an opportunity to have better Indian food than you can get in Boston and we picked a likely-looking place" jumped out at me. I wonder about the idea that a set of cultural cuisines as established in North America as Indian food and relative merits of restaurants. You have me thinking (again and in different ways) about the interplay of distribution and grouping and the relative food and restaurant cultures of various cities and city sizes and whether they are immigration draws and/or have longer-standing groups of specific cultures.