Thai Basil Restaurant
(617) 578-0089
132 Newbury St
Boston,
MA
02116
42.3509
-71.0768
Neighborhoods: Black Bay East, Back Bay
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The Scene
The sleek look (lots of black lacquer, mirrors, a black tile floor, Thai decorative objects kept minimal) suits this middlebrow part of Newbury nicely, though the long, narrow garden-level space tends to get very noisy as soon as one patron raises his voice and everyone else speaks up to be heard. Parties of at least six can reserve the bamboo-mat rooms with classic low tables.
The Food
Noon or evening, start with a heavenly rendition of chicken coconut soup seasoned with galangal, lime juice and hot chilies. This is the best version of this soup we've tried, but the rest of the dishes, while uniformly good and accurately rated for spiciness on a scale of one to three chilies, don't quite match it.
User Reviews
nampeung
May 19, 2009
I will not go back to this restaurant again. The servers are all rude. This place is the worst Thai restaurant I have ever been to in the MA area.
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Anonymous
January 02, 2009
My parents and I were visiting Boston. We were in this area for lunch and decided to try Thai Basil (because they had a decent amount of vegetarian options). It was a pretty good choice! My mom and I had the Veggie Pad Thai, and my dad ordered the veggie yellow curry. Very good! Not bad at all for the price we paid. My dad also got Thai Iced Tea, and he enjoyed it.
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fa6ami86
September 11, 2008
the waitresses were VERY RUDE the lady got our order wrong and when we tried to point it out she started screaming at us and said they didn't care if we never showed up again.. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE service.. plus when i tried to explain that its rude to scream and that the no.1 rule of business is customers are always right she said no they're not in this rest. we are! can you imagine? i wouldnt recommend it to anyone.. even the food has become less good than it used to..nothing special at all about this place..horrible expererience.. never again!
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