In lebanon - stuff liek in leb restaurants in london, but i'v ehad better in west london to be honest. syrian similar, but more fruit (or so i found anyway), and slightly better, but that's only a selection of restaurnats anyways. i'll bet the home cooking is awesome.
That's always kind of the problem with food match-offs, though, isn't it - what are you actually comparing? Eg if you talk about france, are you talking about michelin starred haute cuisine, idealized french farmhouse cooking, actual normal french home cooking that most people do on a daily basis (ISTR some famous chef complaining that the majority of french housewives would benefit greatly from a copy of Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cooking...), day-to-day cheap restaurant food, or what?
I mean, france is a bad example because they do quite well at most of these things, but places like Britain, Turkey, China, Russia etc are quite mixed. I'd rate good British cooking as being among the best in the world insofar as it does simple but almost perfect combinations of an amazing variety really excellent ingredients - but to get that you either have to be rich or to live somewhere with just the right shops and put in the time and effort to do it youself, and apart from comparatively recent immigrants, Britain as a whole has a fairly shit national food culture.
