Thai Basil

03/11/2008 Posted by dwatsodx

Always good! Now it's easy to order at home. Just go to www.thaibasil.us. Have fun ordering and eating!

03/08/2008 Posted by mijodowl

My family enjoys take out several nights a week from our area restaurants. Thai Basil is in our top 3 favorites because everything we have eaten from there is amazing. We have not been able to enjoy the restaurant for some time because we are unable to find an on line menue.

Pros: The best Thai I have ever had anywhere in the world

Cons: No on line menue

01/29/2008 Posted by cboz

Thai Basil, you need to get a menu on line I can read about it all day but if I don't know what you offer how can I try your food

01/14/2008 Posted by pastazia

As soon as I walked into Thai Basil, I was impressed. I enjoy a romantic atmosphere and Thai Basil has it! I love the big stuffed chairs, the "canopy bed" style booths, the twinkling candle-lit tables, and the arched ceiling. Eating at Thai Basil truly is a beautiful experience. I also enjoyed the food. My favorite is the Sesame Beef. Some people have complained about the food being too sweet, but I thought it was wonderful! The vegetables were exceedingly fresh. In fact, when I visited the downtown location, I spied one of their workers preparing fresh snow peas from a big box. I'm not a big vegetable lover, but I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the zucchini, broccoli, peppers, onions, cauliflower, mushrooms, and baby corn cobs that came with my Sesame Beef. My only complaint is that it cost more to have fried rice rather than steamed rice with the entres. At the Park Meadows location, I was told that I would have to pay the full 7.95 price to have fried rice with my entre. At the downtown location, it was only 1.00 extra and well worth it. I'm suspicious that the waiter at the Park Meadows location may have been misinformed. Instead, we opted for the brown rice. It was good, but not nearly as flavorful as the fried rice. I have to say, Thai Basil is now my favorite Asian restaurant and has made it onto my list of "places I can't resist!"

Pros: Ambience, taste, price

08/29/2007 Posted by daphnesmom

Used to be a huge Thai Basil fan... was craving Thai last night so we drove across town to Thai Bail. What happened to this place??? I have to echo the other reviews in saying that the food has gone down the drain. My Drunken Noodles (which used to be my favorite dish) were drowned in a thick, gooey, sugary sauce. My husband's beef was sitting in the same sweet, sickening goo. They brought our food out very quickly, but I would much rather wait a few more minutes for food that actually looks and tastes fresh! Apparently now that Thai Basil is a chain, they have become the McDonald's of thai food. I will not return.

Pros: If you want to be in and out in about 30 minutes, this is your place.

Cons: Food that used to be great, is now awful

08/28/2007 Posted by in_the_no

Great furniture, good atmosphere, the service was decent. If you are from the Mid-West (and not Chicago) and if you have not had Thai food before then the marketing will sway you. The food is WAY too sugary. Truly go down the street to Swing Thai......

Pros: nice place for a Sapphora

Cons: the food

08/01/2007 Posted by janesearch

I've been there once. The service was great. I got the food within two minutes after ordering. The rapidness was very stunning but the taste of the food was terrible. Every dish that I ordered tasted and looked the same. Vegetables were tough as if the restaurant pre-cooked for a long time before they served it. No wondered why it only took about a few minutes after the waiter rang the order in. Moreover, Thai food that I ordered wasn't Thai at all. By putting the word "Thai" in front of the names of the dishes was the only thing that made the food Thai. It was very ashamed to have the restaurant named "Thai Basil" without recognizing the authenticity of Thai Recipe.

07/10/2007 Posted by thinkpink5836

I have been here many times and I have never had a bad meal. The new one that just opened on 38th has fast delivery and it is free. The lunch boxes are also great!

Pros: Fast, cheap

05/07/2007 Posted by channonholiday

Good lord, the food here is sweet. WAY too much sugar. This probably works fine for the Midwest palate, but if you like real Thai food (here I'm talking Thailand, or Thai restaurants of San Francisco, Seattle, Portland), then you will find this food WAY too sweet (think Swing Thai). The server was kind enough to recommend a "more authentic" (his words) Thai restaurant down near I-225 (too far for me.)

Pros: Great atmosphere...

Cons: The Thai food is way too sweet.

01/22/2007 Posted by leighette

Finding a good Thai place in Denver has been a difficult search, and unfortunately Thai Basil was just about as mediocre as a restaurant can get. The decor is nice and the dinnerware they use is interesting--beautiful clay pots for the curry and big square laquer plates for noodles--however, the food ranges from mediocre to not good at all. Good thai chefs understand subtlety and Thai Basil is far from subtle. Its food is unfailingly oversauced, my Drunken Noodles were drowning in sauce and my friend's gorgeous red snapper filet was a soggy mess of sauce and wilted vegetables. We tried Thai Basil twice, hoping that it would be good since its so close to our home, but both times it disappointed. Swing Thai is a block away--go there. It's not great either, but at least its cheap.

Pros: nice furniture and dinnerware

Cons: not so nice food