Sure, but like, what kind of authentic cuisine?

Like, the post is such word salad that anyone who knows a bit about the cuisine in question is going to be confused. Like, the level of specificity here is like saying (and I'm making it slightly more polite than OP wrote it) "I want an asian-owned asian restaurant, especially Japanese or Thai". Also, is it authentic if it's a Chinese restaurant owned/run by Koreans?

They're just different cuisines and it's strange to conflate them while seeking "authenticity".

Also, does it count as "brown-owned" if the owners are east-indian or afro-latino?

Seriously, the race of the owners/staff does not a authentic restaurant make.

Brown owned and the real deal?

Chicano or boricua restaurant?

Dude, like what are you even looking for? El Cabrito in halethorpe has some of the best tacos I’ve had since living in the southwest, but like it’s north Mexican, they don’t serve plantains/are corn husk tamales, not banana leaf ones. In comparison tortilla cafe in eastern market is Salvadoran and does lovely tortas, plantains, pupusas, etc. both are super affordable, both are super different from Puerto Rican food (Salvadoran food maybe a bit closer)

Also is ligua supposed to be lengua or is it something different?

Idk, like sometimes these weirdly racialized restaurant posts feel like trolling.

Yeah this seems like an off night. I’ve been to that one and the Arlington one a bunch of times, worst thing that ever happened is someone ordered a pizza that smelled like ass (it was awful).

Aside from that we never got our tickets checked until we sat down and then the server would check tickets and open a tab.