Basilicom/בזיליקום — Restaurant in Surat Thani Province

One word: disgusting! Another word: horrible! Ordered delivery from this restaurant and was completely disappointed on all dishes. Ordered 800 baht of food just for myself and was still hungry afterwards becuase everything was so disgusting I couldn’t eat it.

Boiled vegetables were boiled in city tapwater that you could still taste in the vegetables, completely awful and inedible!

Roasted red peppers - tasted so horrible but I literally spit out the first bite because it tasted rotten! Yuk!! 🤮

BBQ chicken steak - I’ve never seen chicken so thin in my life, completely greasy and oily as well. How can barbecue chicken be this greasy and oily?

“Greek” salad - the salad seemed heavy by weight but that’s because the entire thing was mainly cucumbers! See attached photo. Very skimpy on the olives and feta cheese and anything that was expensive. Cucumbers are presumably the cheapest vegetable in the salad. Oh! They also don’t even include any dressing for the salad, just half of a lime and good luck!

“Homemade” French fries were probably the least offensive thing in the meal, and they weren’t even good.

I’m really flabbergasted and astounded how this restaurant could have so many positive reviews ! There literally was not a single redeeming fact about any item ordered!...

Update Oktober 2023: Been back as promised and was not disappointed (see fotos). All still good and still nice, fresh food. And now credit card payments are also possible. So no more excuses for not showing up there. Greetings from Bavaria.

It is an israeli Restaurant but actually it is really a Fusion-Food Hotspot with Israeli, Arabic, Turkish, Lebanese dishes topping it off with favourites from Germany (Schnitzel) and Italy (Pizza/Pasta) and of course some Thai dishes. So there is really that one dish for everybody - eastern or western, meat or no meat, kids and adults. It is all freshly prepared so it may take a little while, but the wait is definitely worth it. For the quality and portion sizes the prices are very decent - including the drinks. Place is packed around main dinner time, so expect to wait a little. Local friendly Thai staff ensure that hectic just doesn't happen and they have been trained on the different dishes too. In good jewish tradition it is cash only, so bring your notes. Had a wonderful time and will be adding this to my 'Must-do'...

I come to Samui from 2000.I've been coming to this restaurant since it opened,every time I've been to the island. Food and service was great.Last time I was in samui and at the restaurant was on 2019.This year I returned to the island and at the restaurant.Because I know it's very busy in the evening, I chose to come in the afternoon at 18:30.It was almost empty.I sat at a table and waited for someone to come take my order.20' passed,no one.The staff was sitting in the middle of the restaurant and joking, some of them were walking past me without paying attention, I started to wonder if I was invisible.I waved , they said okay and never came.Finally, the girl in the white shirt responded and told someone to come to the table, which happened after 10 minutes.The funny thing is that I asked for a Singha beer, she came a second time to confirm because she must have forgotten - these things happen - and finally she brought me a Singha soda. I didn't bother to return it, they could have brought...