In some restaurants, the wine list consists of highly priced bottles of six wines all from France. Or overpriced bottles from you don't know where. But often, there are two or three choices for a particular cuisine. Check out if their chef comes from the country where that cuisine is from. You are more likely to get the real thing and not the stylized version of it. There is nothing wrong about stylized cuisine as some of the real ones are hard to take anyway.