Amrit — Restaurant in Berlin

The decor of the place is amazing. I guess the decor had extra effort due to independence day. Nice place for dates. The service is nice. The waiters are quick and chatty.

The food: We ordered the pahadi paneer and that was really good and mint chutney was great. For main dishes we have paneer makhani (butter paneer), malabari paneer and naan and jeera rice. The panner makhani was good and paneer malabari was amazing. It was slightly spicy and really flavourful. I had told them to make the dishes with desi style and I think that made the difference. The naan was also quite good. The complaint would be for the rice. The jeera rice was mentioned as some fancy basmati rice being served. But the jeera rice didn't feel like long grained basmati rice and sometimes it was clumpy. I would not expect that in a restaurant. The taste of jeera rice was still good though. Then to finish the meal I ordered extra tandoori roti and I think it was a reheated roti, because it didn't feel fresh and was not very hot. Some part of the roti seemed undercooked. I told this to the waiter but did not demand a replacement as I was full and had eaten half of it.

For dessert we had sizzling brownie and it was really amazing. We also got a complementary cake due to independence day. They also have very good chai.

Moreover, when you pay the tip options are 10, 15, 20% directly. There was no option to give a user-defined amount. Or otherwise 0 tip.

Overall good but they need to improve the rice served with curries and tandoori roti has to be really improved, it...

Having been disappointed by the local ‘German cusine’ we decided to try something more familiar. So we came to Amrit.

(I will add we are an Anglo Italian couple and Italian friend and that we ate Indian cusine on a regular basis in London where many chefs are from the Bengali, Punjab and other Northern areas of India, thus recognising the multitude cuisines and traditions of that great country.)

So, warm friendly welcome, “Sit where you like sir”, menus instantly in English and many dishes although described differently were similar to those we ate in London. I chose a samosa and a lamb curry, (Khadai Ghosht?) my companions two different chicken dishes. We had popadoms, the beer arrived and off we went.

The speedy service was a delight and the food was hot and well presented and of course quite delicious.

However, in London when having a ‘ruby’ we like a real arse burner, where here the ‘temperature’ had been turned down quite a bit, possibly to accommodate the German palate.

I’m not at all disappointed with the quality or quantity, (a tad too much really) but, was a bit underwhelmed at the lack of spicy heat with which to quench with ‘Cobra’ beer. I had to make do with ‘Amchi’ beer which is a German brew but no complaints there as it did the job.

I would definitely eat here again and my two companions would do so again.

All I can say boys is...

I had two experiences at Amrit, and everytime the food is great but the personnel behaves in unpolite ways. I had a reservation and was then assigned an unprepared table which took a long time to get ready, and had to tell the personnel several times that i was not alone but waiting for other people. The service was fast but they took a long time to come to us and forgot about us. At some point we were asked multiple times if we wanted something more, to which we responded no. At that point, the personnel stopped being nice to us and just took away all of our glasses - very unprofessional and rude in the restaurant world. One feels thrown out. When one of us got up the waiter decided it was time for us to pay and asked us to do so. We commented the total as it seemed too high, to which we were told "just believe me and pay" instead of being able to see the details as "it was impossible". As we insisted he finally managed to show us and it was the wrong ticket. He apologised. We were then asked to hurry as we paid in a very rude way. Once we paid we had to hear an unkind comment about how we did not leave any tip - but how would we as we were so badly treated and almost got scammed ? I recommend the food, but the service is really terrible. Restaurant is quite...