Ambar India Restaurant

John Kreitzer a year ago

I absolutely love this restaurant! The buffet (which starts after U of I Summer Break on August 20th) has all of my favorite dishes. Staff is super nice and accommodating. I drive forty minutes once or twice a week to eat here. Definitely recommend!

Teresa Piwowar a year ago

Wonderful aromatic authentic northern Indian Food with the absolute best service! Outstanding! Friendly and helpful. Ranjit Sandhu made sure I had everything made exactly how I prefer. I’m so happy to find such excellent quality Indian food. I’ll be back often. Kala was very kind to welcome me in. Ranjit makes the most delicious butter lamb, naan and mutter paneer. Warm comforting food and service.

Tony Sen (Toni senpai) a year ago

I have no idea how this place is still open. It tries to make itself look like an upscale restaurant while serving common indian dishes and having students as their main customer?? I guess I’ll start with the good. Cleanliness of the place has definitely improved and they’re open on sunday’s. Menu with no pictures, so if you aren’t indian or familiar with indian cruisine you’re just kinda stuck googling for images of the dish. Nothing like a description of the dish anywhere Staff basically gives you water then leaves you alone. Now the food The dish on the right, tasted disgusting. Half the dish was just onions and I had one slice of bell pepper in the corner. The bell pepper tasted raw and instead of a fork I got TONGS. Middle dish was alright but its literally like maybe 8 pieces of chicken. You get to pick the spice level from 1-6. Rice tasted pretty good but cmon, its rice. Very stingy with the rice and portion sizes are way too small. The sauce of the dessert tasted alright but the dessert itself tasted soggy and cold in the middle. I suspect a majority of the dishes were frozen, definitely not fresh. Perhaps thats why they churn out dishes so fast. Worse of all, thi

Sagar Regmi 4 years ago

Service okay, Lassi was so bad. Samosa chat was not authentic. And we ordered hydrabadi Chicken biryani, the biryani they gave us was like fried chicken. I won't recommend this to anyone.

Brandon Burton Edited 6 years ago

Zero is my rating!!! Service was bad. They didn't have any hot peppers, chile powder was offered as an alternative to the norm. Perhaps they're struggling. Either way, this is my first visit. Better luck next time? The options were terrible 😣 the fish nuggets were skin. When you asked questions it felt as if you were bothering them. I had to sit our plates on the next table because the server never moved them. I couldn't stay longer than 20min. We were annoyed so we left.