Thai Basil Restaurant — Restaurant in Visalia

Highly recommended. Audry and I love Thai Basil because the dining area is comfortable, the service is consistently excellent, there is always a carry-out option, everything on the menu seems fresh. Flavors and spices seem well balanced. She and I have both lived or traveled across Asia and we agree that the food is as close to traditionally prepared as our American culture will allow. When we ask for hot, we get hot. Their spicy scale goes from 0 to 10. I like a 3. Once in a while, I'll go 6. She likes 0. When we ask for mild we get mild. Like any made-to-order place, we have had to get used to their basic food flavors, textures, consistencies and then order accordingly. Sometimes we only order two or three appetizers with their yummy sauces. They're all good. The chicken and shrimp options in all of the dishes that we've tried are generous. Their plain rice is great. Their fried rice is not like Chineese fried rice. It's much more moist and juicy. It depends upon what you like. She finds many of the veggie based dishes to be bland and gets them seasoned to order. I prefer curry. Yellow, green, red are all very good here. Taken alone, their curries are not hot. They are rich and bold. They reheat well at home and hold their flavor. The bill is fair for what you get. The two of us get hot tea, two appetizers, two entrees and a plate of fried rice (we take home leftovers) for about $25 each, out the door, with a 20% tip. Highly recommended. Be early. Standing room only 40 minutes after...

I am disgusted with this restaurant, the food was basically inedible, if I could leave 0 stars I would.

I went to this restaurant 0n 01/20/22 and ended up taking everything to go because they were getting ready to close for dinner.

I ordered the 🍍 fried rice, the 🍍 curry, the assorted appetizers, 2 pad see ew noodles, sticky rice and 2 thai iced tea's.

For some reason everything is wrapped in foil inside the containers, I suspect so that they can do smaller portions, the fried rice was complete trash, soggy and not even mixed together right and entirely disgusting.

The pad see ew was extremely salty I mean to the point that you can't taste anything else, the pineapple curry was bland, the appetizers were extremely bad, the shrimp wraps were dry and tasted burnt, the dumplings were a weird color and didn't have much flavor and the spring rolls were soggy inside and completely disgusting.

The only things that were edible were the thai tea's and the sticky rice, (even though it needed more condensed milk)I don't know how they have 4.6 stars it's insane to me with food this bad.

I will not be returning, that's over 70 dollars down the drain, it seems you can get away with anything if you have enough stars and people who don't know what the food should taste like leave good reviews because they don't...

Since moving to the central valley from southern California, I've been resigned to less diversity of quality food. There's still plenty of good stuff, but it's hard to compare with L.A. Thai Basil was a pleasant surprise. I had lunch there and ordered the panang curry with beef, spice level 4 (on a scale of 5). It was quite nice. The flavors were just as good as the Thai food I grew up eating. The beef was tender, and the vegetables were a good complement. I would've liked a bit more beef, but it wasn't lacking. The spice level is subjective to each person, of course, but for me, it was perfect: a bit of a sweaty brow without compromising the flavor. I did have to order rice on the side, as this dish is intended for family style and not available as one of their lunch specials. I also got Thai iced tea, which is a tasty way to take the edge off the spice.

The person who joined me got the chow mein lunch special and was very happy with it, including the egg roll.

The only drawback is that their website is out of date, so when I searched for menu information, the only place I could find anything was on Google photos. I would've loved to have a PDF or something available for some advance planning, especially if we ever want to do takeout.

All in all, very nice little Thai restaurant. We'll...