The quality of food has depreciated over the years.Ordered their special Butter chicken but the taste was so bad we had to just gulp it given the price for it. At the end after paying the check and adding tip, the server had no shame in coming back and asking for more tip. I do not recommend this place if you want to eat quality butter chicken near Santana Row.
Chirag Patel
Always good food and service!Prices here has shot up a lot...(has been coming here since they opened)..may be priciest in South bay. If looking for only good food, there are other options in South bay. But for nice celebration outing, this is still a very good option!
Punit
The food quality has deteriorated substantially. First you would want to go anytime then dinner quality went extremely bad we used to look at buffet in the afternoon, but to our surprise the buffet has gone worse even. They need to do a war scale interventions on the quality of food.
Anirban Misra
Might be the expectation was too high, but was ensured the reality check was done properly! Oneof the worst food in the Bay Area… Miserable menu selection for a Valentines Day Dinner, too little quantity, strange chicken do pyaza recipe with overpowering salt and garlic, shrimp curry was overpowering garlic flavor as well with 4 shrimps from Costco… Rice was 60% cooked… Coming to the desert - one kulfi was distributed to two, maintaining the standards of minimized quantity…seems evident the desert was outsourced from Indian Groceries… The plates served were even broken… Now coming to the invoice, seriously, $389??? A gratuity of 18% charged…
natasham
Poor quality food with inappropriate spicing and recipes. Really good Indian food is never so sweet or spicy hot (and I am Indian). Eg papri chaat the tamarind chutney was outrageously sweet and ruined the dish. The staff were not friendly and ambience isn't in line with other restaurants in Santana Row. Overall I would give this place a miss and would never go back. There are far better quality Indian restaurants around.
PatientDiner
The food here seems to have deteriorated; possibly due to a new chef? Everything. seems really unnecessarily spicy, and the wait staff needs training to accommodate diner tolerances for heat. An assortment of Tandoori vegetables (vegetable garden) was liberally laden with chilli flakes, way beyond my ability to handle, and a replacement tandoori paneer was even hotter. Even the assorted bread included a super spicy stuffed bread ! I badly needed some yogurt to cool off; the only thing they had was mango lassi, which is a sugar bomb I avoid (no salted or plain lassi). Drinks and dessert were good. I and my fellow diners didn't get a good night's sleep due to heat induced indigestion. Please tone it down or make it customizable as most places do!
GregA
This used to be a great restaurant but it was tired and dirty. Planned to have dinner and ordered two appetizers and drinks. The appetizers (both deep fried) came out lukewarm. We didn't order dinner and left.
Akira K
The weekend buffet including free-flow mimoza is really nice.
Lana
Dirty restaurant and bad food. The floor was sticky and dirty at the entrance . That was our first unpleasant impression. I wish we would just walked away. I loved this restaurant for a long time, I think I have been visiting it over a decade. The food: they just cooked one curry sauce and then they serve it as different dishes. The chicken is flavorless..Chana masala seems like came out of a can. Naan is also tasteless. I don't recommend. Kind of shamefully rip off..very expensive and underwhelming.
DesA
Amber India had gone downhill from when they first opened. The restaurant is starting to look old and dirty. The bench at our table had a huge gap/hole in it. The front door of the restaurant couldn't close so the restaurant was super cold. It would've been better to have been outside with a heater than inside. The appetizer was smothered in sauce and our lamb dish was cold. Not just not warm but cold like from the refrigerator cold. I was super excited to eat here since it had been a while since I've been (pre Covid). Unfortunately we were all extremely disappointed overall. I don't see us excited to return any time soon. It's unfortunate because we have some other family coming to town that wanted to eat there this holiday season but it just doesn't seem worth it to us anymore.
Okayish place for dinner, not up to the mark for the location that it is in. Drinks are not that great, curries are decent. Also, we got a dirty fork and knife wrapped inside our napkin, totally unacceptable.
Aspi Siganporia
Does not have the buzz from past, maybe Covid aftereffects. New menu, pretty good. Service is excellent, very attentive. I guess competition is brought them to be attentive to guests. We enjoyed the dinner. Cauliflower roast was a new try, pretty good.
PruthviRao
The waiter abdel ( that's what the check says ) thought he was doing us a big favor. Extremely discourteous. Did everything short of telling us he hates his job and that we should not go back.
Saranyan Rajagopalan
We went for their weekend buffet with high expectations. The spread was good with a variety of vegetarian options as well. But the quality was average. Their a la carte food is more innovate and fresh. Sadly the buffet was just a regular one. It will cost you about 30/person and you are probably better off at a run of the mill $10 buffet place.What shocked me was the service. I've been to the Santana Row Amber a few times in the past, and the service has gradually degraded. One of the waiters sulked and sighed when we asked for garlic naan. He just assumed we would have the regular one and when we expressed our choice he was clearly dissatisfied. Shouldn't you be asking first? This is not the Amber I know.Anyways, avoid the buffet.
David Mortaz
Four of us came her on Friday night. The food when finally arrived after a significant and noticeable delay was delicious but a bit cold. What saved us from starving was the crispy this bread which was salty as hell.My favorite of the dishes were the Nimbu Chicken appetizier which I had with Naan. I alsoreally like the sauce that srounded the Nutty Egg Plant dish. Rest of the stew dishes were too spicy to a point where it was hard to taste flavors. We also order rice which was a good combo with the stew dishes.Overall the service was too slow for a return visit.
The quality of food has depreciated over the years.Ordered their special Butter chicken but the taste was so bad we had to just gulp it given the price for it. At the end after paying the check and adding tip, the server had no shame in coming back and asking for more tip. I do not recommend this place if you want to eat quality butter chicken near Santana Row.
Always good food and service!Prices here has shot up a lot...(has been coming here since they opened)..may be priciest in South bay. If looking for only good food, there are other options in South bay. But for nice celebration outing, this is still a very good option!
The food quality has deteriorated substantially. First you would want to go anytime then dinner quality went extremely bad we used to look at buffet in the afternoon, but to our surprise the buffet has gone worse even. They need to do a war scale interventions on the quality of food.
Might be the expectation was too high, but was ensured the reality check was done properly! Oneof the worst food in the Bay Area… Miserable menu selection for a Valentines Day Dinner, too little quantity, strange chicken do pyaza recipe with overpowering salt and garlic, shrimp curry was overpowering garlic flavor as well with 4 shrimps from Costco… Rice was 60% cooked… Coming to the desert - one kulfi was distributed to two, maintaining the standards of minimized quantity…seems evident the desert was outsourced from Indian Groceries… The plates served were even broken… Now coming to the invoice, seriously, $389??? A gratuity of 18% charged…
Poor quality food with inappropriate spicing and recipes. Really good Indian food is never so sweet or spicy hot (and I am Indian). Eg papri chaat the tamarind chutney was outrageously sweet and ruined the dish. The staff were not friendly and ambience isn't in line with other restaurants in Santana Row. Overall I would give this place a miss and would never go back. There are far better quality Indian restaurants around.
The food here seems to have deteriorated; possibly due to a new chef? Everything. seems really unnecessarily spicy, and the wait staff needs training to accommodate diner tolerances for heat. An assortment of Tandoori vegetables (vegetable garden) was liberally laden with chilli flakes, way beyond my ability to handle, and a replacement tandoori paneer was even hotter. Even the assorted bread included a super spicy stuffed bread ! I badly needed some yogurt to cool off; the only thing they had was mango lassi, which is a sugar bomb I avoid (no salted or plain lassi). Drinks and dessert were good. I and my fellow diners didn't get a good night's sleep due to heat induced indigestion. Please tone it down or make it customizable as most places do!
This used to be a great restaurant but it was tired and dirty. Planned to have dinner and ordered two appetizers and drinks. The appetizers (both deep fried) came out lukewarm. We didn't order dinner and left.
The weekend buffet including free-flow mimoza is really nice.
Dirty restaurant and bad food. The floor was sticky and dirty at the entrance . That was our first unpleasant impression. I wish we would just walked away. I loved this restaurant for a long time, I think I have been visiting it over a decade. The food: they just cooked one curry sauce and then they serve it as different dishes. The chicken is flavorless..Chana masala seems like came out of a can. Naan is also tasteless. I don't recommend. Kind of shamefully rip off..very expensive and underwhelming.
Amber India had gone downhill from when they first opened. The restaurant is starting to look old and dirty. The bench at our table had a huge gap/hole in it. The front door of the restaurant couldn't close so the restaurant was super cold. It would've been better to have been outside with a heater than inside. The appetizer was smothered in sauce and our lamb dish was cold. Not just not warm but cold like from the refrigerator cold. I was super excited to eat here since it had been a while since I've been (pre Covid). Unfortunately we were all extremely disappointed overall. I don't see us excited to return any time soon. It's unfortunate because we have some other family coming to town that wanted to eat there this holiday season but it just doesn't seem worth it to us anymore.
Restaurantji Recommends
Okayish place for dinner, not up to the mark for the location that it is in. Drinks are not that great, curries are decent. Also, we got a dirty fork and knife wrapped inside our napkin, totally unacceptable.
Does not have the buzz from past, maybe Covid aftereffects. New menu, pretty good. Service is excellent, very attentive. I guess competition is brought them to be attentive to guests. We enjoyed the dinner. Cauliflower roast was a new try, pretty good.
The waiter abdel ( that's what the check says ) thought he was doing us a big favor. Extremely discourteous. Did everything short of telling us he hates his job and that we should not go back.
We went for their weekend buffet with high expectations. The spread was good with a variety of vegetarian options as well. But the quality was average. Their a la carte food is more innovate and fresh. Sadly the buffet was just a regular one. It will cost you about 30/person and you are probably better off at a run of the mill $10 buffet place.What shocked me was the service. I've been to the Santana Row Amber a few times in the past, and the service has gradually degraded. One of the waiters sulked and sighed when we asked for garlic naan. He just assumed we would have the regular one and when we expressed our choice he was clearly dissatisfied. Shouldn't you be asking first? This is not the Amber I know.Anyways, avoid the buffet.
Four of us came her on Friday night. The food when finally arrived after a significant and noticeable delay was delicious but a bit cold. What saved us from starving was the crispy this bread which was salty as hell.My favorite of the dishes were the Nimbu Chicken appetizier which I had with Naan. I alsoreally like the sauce that srounded the Nutty Egg Plant dish. Rest of the stew dishes were too spicy to a point where it was hard to taste flavors. We also order rice which was a good combo with the stew dishes.Overall the service was too slow for a return visit.
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