{"id":1285,"date":"2011-06-27T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:13:19","slug":"amruth-indian-cuisine-little-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/reviews\/amruth-indian-cuisine-little-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Amruth Indian Cuisine, Little Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com<\/h4>\n
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Lamb Vindaloo<\/p><\/div>\n

A few months ago I purchased a Groupon<\/a> for $20 worth of Indian food for $10\u00a0from Amruth Authentic\u00a0Indian Cuisine<\/a> in Little Rock.\u00a0 It is set to expire on June 28th so I go ahead and order some takeout today.\u00a0 It\u2019s not within my diet but the coupon is about to expire, what choice do I have?\u00a0 I call at 11:30 am,\u00a0and order Chicken Tikka Masala ($11.99) <\/strong>and Lamb Vindaloo ($11.99)<\/strong> to go.\u00a0 They tell me 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

I pick up the food which does not overtly smell like Indian food while in my car.\u00a0 Typically, when I get takeout from the other Indian place in Little Rock, you can really smell the spices\u00a0as it permeates my car for a day or two.\u00a0\u00a0Although the smell is mild in intensity, it does smell good.<\/p>\n

Both dishes come in plastic containers with a lot of sauce.\u00a0 They also provide me a large portion of rice, although it is a bit on the dry side.\u00a0 The first thing I notice is how I have to dig around the vindaloo to find any lamb.\u00a0 It has 4-5 large pieces of potato in it, but only 2-3 tiny pieces of lamb.\u00a0 The rest is sauce.\u00a0 At $11.99 a shot, it is not a very good price for a container of mostly\u00a0sauce.<\/p>\n

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Chicken Tikka Masala<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lamb Vindaloo<\/strong> is tender and the sauce gives me the sniffles.\u00a0 I really like spicy food so this is a good thing.\u00a0 I just wish it were spicier.\u00a0 I realize they have to adjust for the \u201cAmerican\u201d palette, but I do wish somewhere in town would offer a lot of spice in their dishes, even as an option.\u00a0 The vindaloo sauce is too watery for my tastes and lacks the consistency I have come to expect from such sauces.\u00a0 It is mildly spicy, but the depth is just not there.<\/p>\n

I switch to the Chicken Tikka Masala<\/strong>, which has a thicker sauce, but am struck by an immense amount of sweetness.\u00a0 It is almost as if someone dumped a cup of sugar in my sauce container.\u00a0 I realize the vinegar from the Vindaloo is still fresh on my tongue, but the sugar in the masala sauce is overwhelming.\u00a0 The chicken is tender, the sauce is super sweet and mild, and overall I am not impressed.\u00a0 It tastes okay but is not memorable.<\/p>\n

When I picked up my food I did notice a rather decent looking buffet.\u00a0 If you are into buffets it probably is worth checking out.\u00a0 I just will not be back for takeout, especially\u00a0not with Star of India right down the road, which has much better entrees (I do not care for their buffet btw.)<\/p>\n

Overall, not memorable and not something I will revisit in the future.<\/p>\n

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By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com A few months ago I purchased a Groupon for $20 worth of Indian food for $10\u00a0from Amruth Authentic\u00a0Indian Cuisine in Little Rock.\u00a0 It is set to expire on June 28th so I go ahead and order some takeout today.\u00a0 It\u2019s not within my diet but the coupon is about to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[332,205],"tags":[475,24,62,276,72,316,275,476],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-cuisine","category-reviews","tag-amruth","tag-chicken","tag-indian","tag-masala","tag-restaurant","tag-rice","tag-tikka","tag-vindaloo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}