Thai Basil

Ordered the beef with onions and there was only like 4 strips of beef… It was basically like eating a bowl of onions! Not impressed at all! I work at St. Joe’s so it’s close for us to order and delivery, but defiantly not happy with my order. I won’t be ordering again ;(.

I just left a mediocre review for a new restaurant and feel obligated to also acknowledge good ones, so here goes — Thai Basil is AWESOME! And close to my work so it’s convenient for lunch. I’ve found that combining the pineapple curry with the green curry dish is incredibly delicious (and they’re happily willing to accommodate my whacky request). I’ve tried several items on the menu — all were good, but the green curry is so good I have trouble straying. They need to bottle that chit!

I don’t know why the average score for this restaurant isn’t higher. On a busy Friday, we needed a place to eat with our 5 yr old. We happened upon this restaurant and were immediately seated in one of their super cute, Thai style booths. The menu wasn’t 100% authentic Thai, but everything we ordered was delicious. The staff was super nice, extremely prompt… And the food came out amazingly fast. We would go there again, no question about it. Deserves five stars.

Delivery was super quick! Also free cheese won tons with purchase over $ 18 was definitely a great deal. Those cheese won tons were delicious. Drunken noodles were also delicious, only cutting off one star because they lacked highly in bean sprouts.

I love Thai Basil. For this spot, I’m strictly a to-​go girl, but that’s also because delivery is super fast and they are always friendly. This is a great spot to call in an order on you way home from work when you are too tired to cook — its reasonably priced and you always have enough for leftovers — big portions!
My favorites are the potstickers (maybe my favorite potstickers in Denver), and the hot and sour soup. I also love the pad thai with veggies and the pad see lew chicken. If you want a kick, go for the spicy drunken noodle. My husband also loves the curries.
This is my favorite delivery spot in Denver. By far. I did give it 5 stars because if you know what you want — quick, well-​priced delivery — then Thai Basil is the best.

I came here because One Fold next door was closed. I came for the lunch & tried the pad thai for under $ 8 & a Thai tea. I liked that the Thai tea’s ½ & ½ wasn’t premixed & I liked the modern bowl that my pad thai came in. The Thai tea was too sweet however. The noodles had sprigs of cilantro on top that were mostly leafless. The pad thai was super saucy but overly sour. I didn’t get asked what kind of meat I wanted with my pad thai but I was given shrimp & chicken. I got medium spice which wasn’t overly spicy for me but my stomach felt the heat afterward during my car ride home.
The décor here is interesting. There’s an outdoor space for dining with fake grass & the indoor space is heavily decorated in Thai sculptures, bamboo & stained glass windows. It feels like a Thai church.
Other menu items include panang curry, pad see lew (not ew), drunken noodles, sesame chicken & many more.

I can’t help but love Thai Basil. I know it’s probably not the most authentic Thai food, but for me it’s my favorite comfort food. I think their food is quite delicious and flavorful, and delivery is insanely fast! It’s taken only 15 – 20 minutes at times for my delivery to show up. Compared to other places in Uptown that deliver, it’s simply unheard of.
My favorites are pad thai with chicken, panang curry (just the right amount of spice for me), and orange beef. Serving sizes are large and I always have leftovers for lunch the next day.

The very definition of average: not too good, not too bad. I don’t think I would tell my friends about this place, but Unilocalers, here it goes. Hmmm, the wording came out badly on that. Of course, I consider you all my friends. Silly me.
I love spice. Spice spice spice, all day long. Which is why I love Thai food because I like to taunt myself with the heat and make myself sweat. Hey, I don’t go to the gym, so I have to sweat somehow… This place does not make me sweat.
The Pad Thai is flavorful. Big chunks of white meat chicken with a few shrimp thrown in. It is a bit greasy, but that is just Pad Thai for ya. I did however ask for it spicy. I saw the red pepper flakes in my dish, but spicy? Pish posh. I mixed in some habanero sauce to kick up my palette. Made it edible.
The green curry was mediocre. Again, I like spice. Where’s the spicy curry that I ordered? If I ask for something spicy and I still have to add spice to it, there is a problem. Decent flavor though. Not the best, not the worst.
Well my friends (see what I did there? I call you all friends), I don’t think I will be back.

I had ordered for delivery and literally 5 minutes after, I saw I had a coupon. I was told that it was too late and my food was on its way. There’s no way that’s true seeing as I LITERALLY JUST ORDERED. I mentioned it, and the man on the phone said «do you think I’m lying?» I was absolutely blown away by the immaturity. I live a mile, maybe two down the road. It doesn’t take 25 minutes to get here. Obviously he WAS lying about it being «too late». It’s not even about that, I didn’t care much about the coupon but the way I was treated left an even worse taste in my mouth than this mediocre food. I say go to the new Asian grill down the street.

Came here for a Saturday dinner — service was great & the food was too! We will be back! I had the curry tofu & peanut sauce.

Came here for a lunch meeting recently and was not impressed. First off, this really is a Chinese restaurant masquerading as Thai. Sauces are thicker, I don’t detect fish sauce or birds eye chiles… No pictures of the Thai royal family on the wall. Didn’t seem authentic at all.
I ordered Spicy Garlic Shrimp ($ 8.50 for lunch portion). It was EXTREMELY salty, which really overpowered any other favors present. It wasn’t very spicy, either, for something with «spicy» in the title. I asked for chile condiments and was told I could have Sriracha but that dried chile flakes or chile paste was not an option. I love Sriracha but not on Thai food.
The fried fried rice did have a nice dense consistency. There was a lot of food for the price, but I don’t know that I’d call it a value.
Service was a bit surly and hurried. They reached over my table mate several times to hand me something rather than walking around the table to reach me in a less obtrusive manner.
Décor was haphazard and starting to show its age. I’d recommend heading elsewhere for your Thai kick, folks.

Especially for the price, Thai Basil is tasty and fast. I’ve gotten take out here several times, ordered different stuff each time, and it’s always reliably delish. If you are looking for good, quick, and well-​priced, this is a winner.

It’s quite weird for me to give a Thai restaurant only 3 stars because I am the biggest Thai food fan in the world; however, I left the restaurant thinking that Thai Basil is one of those places that you will forget about in a month or two. Honestly, I did not like the restaurant’s design so maybe that’s why I was not going to have a good time there, no matter how good or bad the food was. I liked my shrimps with tamarind sauce, spicy scallops and coconut shrimp but they were not good enough to make me want to come back. Service was slow, I wanted to order a second drink but by the time the server approached us again we were done with our food. I was neither disappointed nor impressed but next time I am in a mood for Thai food I will probably try a different restaurant.

But however when we ordered we asked for 4 – 5 star hot and delivered without any spice at all?
White potato in a red curry?
Way more Chinese than Thai!

You know the feeling you get when you try to make thai food at home, but the results are wholly underwhelming, due to the pronounced lack of 3 – 4 key aromatic ingredients ?
That’s how these imposters get down.
Don’t go !

Spicy scallops, shrimp with tamarind sauce and coconut shrimp. So delicious and delivered hot and exactly when I asked for it to be delivered. Absolutely 5 stars!

I know most people don’t come here for what I ended up getting, but I decided on the Vietnamese Slaw salad and Chicken Coconut soup for lunch here with a coworker. The salad was pretty sizable, and had great flavor and texture to it. My go-​to thing at Thai places is usually some kind of noodle dish, but I was trying to avoid the dreaded post-​lunch carb coma and decided to try something moderately good for my body. The menu desc sounds simple, but it’s really worth checking out — if they’re consistent about making it here. The chicken coconut soup was creamy and rich-​tasting and very satisfying; wasn’t short on chicken amount either. I was amused enough by the entryway Buddha statuette with the surveillance camera perched over its shoulder so I took a pic of it. ;) Service was good, never got to that point where the trigger went off and I was wondering «where is my meal?» Friend liked it too, so… good job Thai Basil; keep it up.

The drunken noodles are amazing, as are the potstickers. The service is the reason I’m knocking off two stars. Walked in, stood for about five minutes before being acknowledged. I love the booths they have, they’re beautiful and fun.
That said, another five+ minutes for water, more for drinks, the server was rushed and inattentive. She would stare at our table while walking by, and then keep going. There were three other tables in the restaurant! C’mon, now!
Twenty minutes to order food. Sigh. The food though — yum! Husband had the panang curry, which I liked, he said it was good, but he liked my drunken noodles better — which I agree with! It was a perfect dish. Great portion sizes, too.
It’s all about service, unfortunately, and this girl just didn’t cut it. I will say, prices are fair. For three people, with three entrees, an appetizer, and five cocktails — $ 75 including tip? That’s not bad at all. I’ll come back, but at least this time I’ll know what to expect on the service front.

This place is great for what it is… a cheap, quick Asian fusion place. It’s not really authentic, but it’s not trying to be. Been ordering from here a lot since my fav Denver Chinese place closed down (China Star… RIP!) and have not really been disappointed.
The pad thai and drunken noodles are great, as is the chili lime beef and thai basil chicken. My GF gets the curries and I like them too.
This place is great for a hungover Sunday delivery option. Not so great to impress on a date or to out-​of-​towners or anything like that.
Tip: Don’t bother with their hot and sour soup (not that you should from a Thai place anyways, but still…)

I have been a patron of this place for at least 6 years. I am a young business professional that lives in the downtown Denver area. I dont cook much so I get take out a lot. An usually once a month at Thai Basil.
On my last visit I asked for Soy Sauce and Sriracha for my togo order. The guy at the front desk told me it was going to cost an additional 75 cents. Thats a bunch of bull since I have never been charged this in the past and it would have been free if I would have eaten inside the restaurant.
I will not return anymore unless I get a response from the staff.