AN,
Dont get me wrong as I love to eat as much or more than the next guy but food and the ability to go home for lunch dont define me. The places I mentioned go well beyond eating which seems to be the only thing you can come up with for those areas.
BTW, if I want to eat great Indian food I go to my Indian friends home for dinner, same goes for Korean, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Phillipine food. I’ve got friends whose ecompany I enjoy that would be as happy to have my family over for dinner as they would be to come over for one of my house specialties. If I want a steak, I pick up a big ol USDA Prime Cut at Tip Top and throw it on my grill out back or head down to Donovans.