Amba Mediterranean grill

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Amba Mediterranean grill The perfect meal doesn't have to be complicated. With authentic Mediterranean grill cuisine served up fresh to order, you can indulge guilt free.

Bowl it forward >>> bowl.ambagrill.com We are four brothers raised in a Lebanese household where traditional food took center stage. Our parents made sure that we learned everything about our culinary culture, from simple, everyday recipes to those handed down from grandmother to granddaughter. Perhaps the biggest lesson we learned in those interesting kitchen lessons was that food is the best way to share love with anyone. A delicious plate shared at the dinner table keeps the family bond going and is enough to turn strangers into acquaintances and enemies into allies. We didn’t realize it then, but that’s how the idea of starting a restaurant was planted in our minds. There at the dinner table, enjoying sumptuous traditional dishes that we helped our parents prepare. So, when we were all grown up and wanted to do something significant to us and the world around us, we agreed to start a Mediterranean restaurant. Here, we hope to bring smiles to the faces of lone strangers and whole families as we share what our parents have always taught us to share; delicious plates served with love.

WE'RE HIRING HUMANS 🌯Not robots. Not "my cousin might know a guy." Real humans who want to work at the best-smelling res...
10/10/2026

WE'RE HIRING HUMANS 🌯
Not robots.
Not "my cousin might know a guy."

Real humans who want to work at the best-smelling restaurant in town.

Amba is slammed (thank you) and we need front-line crew, Chipotle-style: building bowls, making wraps, running the register.

Here's the deal:
🔥 Free food every shift. Every. Shift.
💰 Pay plus tips. We don't do insulting wages.
📅 Flexible schedule. Got a life? Keep it.
😎 Work with people who actually like each other.

What we actually care about:
smile, be a great human, have fun.

We'll teach you the rest.

No experience needed.
Bad attitude? Keep scrolling.

Walk in anytime and ask for a manager, or DM us right here. Or text Dany at 708 369 5227

Come hungry. Leave employed.

Have you ever tried our Gyro with steak shawarma? 🌯
10/09/2026

Have you ever tried our Gyro with steak shawarma? 🌯

Someone said we're not real Mediterranean food. Fair enough, everyone's got their own grandma's recipe. So tell us: what...
09/28/2026

Someone said we're not real Mediterranean food. Fair enough, everyone's got their own grandma's recipe.

So tell us: what's the ONE dish that makes Mediterranean food real for you?

Best answer gets a free bowl this week. Winner picked Friday 🍋

THE EMPTY BOWL CHALLENGE 🏆Someone posted their empty Amba bowl in a local food group and said it looks like this every t...
09/21/2026

THE EMPTY BOWL CHALLENGE 🏆

Someone posted their empty Amba bowl in a local food group and said it looks like this every time. We respect that.

The rules: finish your bowl, snap the empty plate, make it funny, tag with .

Funniest post every week wins a free bowl and gets featured. Tie? Most likes takes it.

Who's accepting the challenge? 👇

📍 1522 Illinois Rte 59, Joliet

We just love our Creative customers. I think we should do an ad with this one.
09/21/2026

We just love our Creative customers. I think we should do an ad with this one.

09/15/2026

Are you eating amba today?

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉Deatrice Vann, Meghan Jebens, Wilfredo Cr...
08/25/2026

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉

Deatrice Vann, Meghan Jebens, Wilfredo Cruz, Ashlee Marie, Tony Spain, Lauren McGrath, Matthew Riblon, Sydney Rak, Miasha Lyn Seymour Ores, Angelina Perruquet-Miranda

We fired the robot. Hired my brother. 🖊️Come try the not-so-AI spicy honey chicken.Dany would like everyone to know he’d...
08/19/2026

We fired the robot. Hired my brother. 🖊️

Come try the not-so-AI spicy honey chicken.

Dany would like everyone to know he’d rather be cooking.

I need to ask our community for help. This is hard to write.Since this afternoon, our Google page has been hit with a wa...
08/18/2026

I need to ask our community for help. This is hard to write.

Since this afternoon, our Google page has been hit with a wave of 1-star reviews. Not from people who ate here. From people upset about a poster.

We put up a sign for our new spicy honey chicken. We photographed the real dish, off our own line, and had the image “enhanced.” It came back looking fake. Some of the criticism about that sign is fair, and I’ll say that plainly: it was a bad call, and the signs are down.

But here’s what’s happening now.

One review says “such great food”…and rates our food 1 star.
Another says “I usually get bowls here” … and rates food, service, and atmosphere 1 star each.
Another says “I’m glad I saw the sign before I walked in.”

Three of them landed within minutes of each other. None of them are about a meal.

We’re four brothers. We opened these doors in Joliet to cook the food we grew up on, and every star on that page came from someone who actually sat down and ate.

We’re not asking you to defend us. We’re not asking anyone to leave a 5-star review…please don’t do that just to help us. It’s not honest, and honest is the whole point here.

We’re asking for two things.

If you see one of these reviews, tap the three dots and report it as off-topic. Twenty seconds. That’s it.

And if you’ve eaten with us. good or bad. leave the review you actually would have left.

We’ll take the criticism about the sign. We earned that one. We’re just asking not to lose the restaurant over it.

Thank you for standing with us.

AMBA Team

Address

1522 Illinois Route 59
Joliet, IL
60431

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 8:30pm
Sunday 11:30am - 7:30pm

Telephone

+1 815-556-8881

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