Basils Greek Dining

Fantastic food and service, you can’t miss with the lamb shank dinner!!! Thanks to the manager Angelo for taking the time make sure we left happy.

Our love for greek cuisine bring us here. We start with a nice wine and one of us got tomato basil soup, the grilled octopus in appetizer was delicious and must have.
In the main course we had baby lolly lamb chop medium rare that was one of the best entrée there. The chicken kebab was yummylicious, though one of our friend liked the sweet potato side.
Overall a nice dining atmosphere and good food is worth all your time (ofcourse if you want something good you need to wait).
All the best to the staff and chefs.

Very great staff, excellent food. Great service and big portions. My girlfriend and I just tried for the first time today. I highly recommend making this one of your staples in local neighborhood eating!

I came here the other day and had the gyro plate, lamb Mac and cheese, and the eggplant/​zucchini starter plate. I enjoyed the starter plate; however, the other two entrees were just mediocre for me. I think I came here with too high of expectations due to the high ratings from Unilocal.I had to knock off a couple stars for the food and the high prices. On the plus side, the customer service was phenomenal. We were greeted by 3 – 4 people, checked on during our meal over 5 – 6 times, and as we left another 4 – 5 people said goodbye. Let’s just say this place is not understaffed.

My husband I went that with great expectations and were sorely disappointed. Our server did not understand half of what we were asking the menu said that there were lamb tenderloins and they came out with four tiny little loin chops two of which didn’t even have a tenderloin on them. The server talked to the manager manager did nothing and as we were leaving we spoke with her and told her how disappointed we were she still did nothing. Won’t return. Saganaki was decent. Our other entrée wasn’t worth a return either and is usually my fav.

Food was delicious. This was my first time coming here and I can say I will definitely return. The Grecian chicken was amazing. The service was great, they made sure to come and check on us. I recommend this place.

Delicious food, friendly staff, and charming ambiance. Can’t go wrong here. Date night, family dinner, liquid lunches, girls get-​together, solo dining, whatever your needs — Basils has you covered. And for you fellow AA advantage dining members, they’re on the list.

Stopped here before going to the Paramount for a show. Overall very good service and food was fresh and delicious. Service was just slightly overbearing as we were asked about 20 times how things were. Food came reasonably fast and was quite good. Desserts were AWESOME! I’m a big dessert guy if you didn’t guess. I’m very particular about Greek food and my favorites are still downtown Chicago in Greek town. Overall for the suburbs this place was very good and if in the area I would definitely return. Great job!

The food and service was amazing. The potion sizes were very large, but it was pretty equivalent to the price. My pastichio was $ 18 but was huge and came with rice and potatoes. Growing up in a Greek family, I know my way around the food pretty well. I must say this is one of the best Greek restaurants I’ve ever been to. It is a bit pricey but so worth it, and I will definitely be going again.

When I eat at Basils I am home! Angelo gives is the warmest greeting — the kale salad is my new find … Try it — you will not be disappointed. Maggie at the Bar can sure pick a bottle of wine!!!

This place was PACKED. Like circled the parking lot way too many times packed. Finally found a spot and was excited to try the highly rated suburb Greek food. We had reservations for 6:30 and we waited until 6:50 to be seated.
Our waitress didn’t even come to greet us for another 10 minutes. When she finally arrived we ordered saganaki, fried calamari and a crab cake (we were hungry). It came out shortly and the crab cake and saganaki were delicious, the fried calamari was mediocre and kind of tasted like it was previously frozen.
We ordered two plates of gyros, rib eye, lamb lollipops, and a lamb burger. We ordered food and waited a lengthy time for it to come out.
We’re a sharing family so we all helped ourselves to each other’s entrees. My gyro was AMAZING. You could tell it was made in house and fresh. The tzatziki sauce was mixed with feta and added to the deliciousness! They provide a healthy amount of gyro meat and too little pita to go with it.
The lamb burger was okay, nothing to call home about.
I didn’t get a chance to try the the lamb lollipops but heard it was amazing.
The rib eye seemed like it was a flank steak with ribeye cost. Sooo chewy and tough to cut. We ordered it medium and it was well done. I wouldn’t recommend that for anyone.
Service was slowwwwww! Our waitress rarely visited our table. We had to ask other servers to grab her every time we wanted to talk to her.
For the price of this place, I’ll stick to grabbing gyro sandwich in the city.

Decided to have a light late night dinner. We ordered avgolemino soup which tasted delicious! Just the right amount of creaminess and lemon! We also ordered the skordalia with roasted beets which was also delicious! The bread served with it was dry and stale not so appetizing.. We then ordered the Kale Salad. The description of it sounded so delicious that the whole table ordered. A generous bowl of kale salad was served. It was terrible! Not only was it dry but Tasted like cardboard. The little amt if dressing on it was so very tasteless and the feta and cranberries were scarce, so tasteless. What a terrible disappointment this was! It left such a disappointment around the table that we decided not to stay for any other dishes. I would recommend that you stick to the «greek» dishes. Going with the realm of something different in this Greek restaurant, was not worth it!

Opa! Basils is my favorite Greek restaurant. I have had the gyros plate appetizer and the crab cakes which are both generous as well as the shrimp kebabs. Prices are slightly above average but the food is fresh. The décor is nice as well as the service.

Date night here tonight with my husband. Every now and then we need that romantic evening on the town. I like their location because it is convenient to my work. I ordered Greek comfort foods including pastichio and moussaka. Then we had bakkavah for desert. Good service and best greek deserts. Sometimes its better to try something different and do Greek food when the opportunity presents itself.

Came here on a Saturday night and we were seated right away as the restaurant was mostly empty. I ordered the gyros after skimming through other reviews and I would also have to agree that the gyros were right on the mark. The portion size was generous but it only came with a few measly pieces of pita bread and they charged extra for more. The price for the gyros was pricey ($ 18) – I could get an order in Chicago for less than half the cost. I stole a few bites of my bf’s domales, which was also really good. Our waitress was also nice and the atmosphere was great.

Basils is an upscale Greek restaurant on the outer ring/​out lot of the a large shopping mall.
The place was quiet when we went there during the week. We had a variety of starters. Gyros, grilled octopus, and dolmades. The gyros was my favorite. It’s a homemade gyro meat and not the distributor bought meat. The other two were good too, but the uniqueness and tastiness of the gyro meat was a standout.
We had a large Greek salad to share for the table. This is the way to do it since it’s a large bowl of salad.
As the main course, I had the fish special, which was fresh and well prepared.
Finally, we finished up with the dessert. Home made cheesecake, Baklava Sundae, and the Chocolate Lava Cake. Cheesecake is my recommendation for everyone.
The place is very nice and is a solid place for upscale Greek food. The homemade food is definitely what sets it apart from the other random Greek places that you find in the suburbs.

Love the interior! Also love the patio… we didn’t sit out there (due to rain) but we definitely will next time!
The staff was very nice and always there when you needed something. My gyro was okay, I would have preferred to get one big pita opposed to 3 small slices of pita bread for assembling the gyro. I also would have liked to see some rice with the dish (which is how a gyro platter is normally served).
We were with a group and everyone else loved their food. The «basils salmon» is very good. The chicken parmigiana was «ok» but that is to be expected considering it is not a speciality dish one would order from a Greek restaurant.
Also, all the desserts are amazing!!! Must get dessert after dinner here!
Staff is good, food is good, restaurant looks good… try Basils!

Decided to try this place based on the reviews. Well I’m kind of disappointed, I mean it is a beautiful and very clean place, some of the plates were delicious, some very disappointing. I personally was very surprised and not on a good way that the charge .25 cents for the piece of pita bread… who does that??? Service was good and friendly, I didn’t like they did not have platter options on the dinner menu. We found ourselves very limited as we all liked like different things and some if us had to sacrifice as it didn’t make any sense to order so many food when not everyone was going to enjoy it. At the end of the day we’ve had better options at other Greek restaurants. Perhaps that’s what they need just to expand their options on their menu, as the rest was just fine.

I am a huge fan of this place. It brings the class and quality of greektown to the Burbs.
Like any long lasting relationship I’ve had my ups and downs. Like, when I’ve been here on signature date nights like Valentine’s Day and made a reservation I still had to wait over an hour for a table.
But, those kind of problems happen few and far between. For the most part, I walk in get a table and love everything I’ve eaten here.
The Gyros is good, but I wish it came with greek potatoes as just a huge mound of meat leaves a little to be desired. Although this is the highest quality gyros meat you will get. I learned something once about gyros, even though a lot of these places buy from the same suppliers their is different grades of meat.
I always start everything off with their saganaki. It very good. Also their bread is usually amazing and very addicting. Add the two together and you got yourself a great start to any meal.
I’ve tried their Avgolemono a few times, and it is pure comfort food for me. Just the right amount of lemon and the cream is not too thick.
Two things that stand out more than anything is:
Their Pork Chops are amazing and huge. And, for dessert get the Baklava Cheesecake and drift off into a food coma that will leave you mumbling to yourself as your loved one’s help you find your way to the car.
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First time here and can’t wait to go again.
We had seen the great reviews but what really pushed us over the edge to try Basils was to earn some points. This restaurant is part of the Hilton Dining Rewards so you earn points per dollar. If you are a Hilton member, this is definitely something to look into. We earned over 300 points just for having dinner.
Anyhow, we went dressed pretty casual but I didn’t feel out of place or not dressed up enough. The place is really cute and they have an outdoor area that is nicely decorated. I only wish it didn’t look over a mall parking lot, boo. The first thing that I thought was kind of odd… no booths. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a restaurant without booths. It’s like Peanut Butter without Jelly, or in this case Gyros without tzatziki. Somehow we survived.
We decided to start with a few appetizers, Saganaki obviously and Basils’ Chips. The Saganaki was very good, to be expected. Now that we had it once there, I don’t know if I would necessarily get it again. It was good but $ 9 for a small piece of fried cheese is a little hard to swallow. ESPECIALLY when the Basils’ Chips are freaking awesome. To the point that I really could have these as an entrée. The portion is huge but you need to pick one dipping sauce. Being indecisive at the moment, we ordered both tzatziki and skordalia. Next time, I would only get the skordalia. It’s basically mashed potatoes ground with garlic. It’s phenomenal and is a perfect combination with the veggies.
We split the Gyros. This is where it gets tricky. We saw the $ 14 gyros and expected some kind of side. No dice, so we ordered a $ 5 side of Greek Potatoes. The gyros isn’t typical AT ALL. It’s more of a platter that comes with one pita, quartered, tomatoes, onions, tzatziki and a mound of meat. I think the amount of meat was appropriate for the price and after taking that first bite, the quality surpassed average. This was real lamb (and beef) but goes way beyond your typical gyros. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Greek Potatoes, but those aren’t really my thing anyway.
For dessert we requested ½ and ½ of the two baklavas. Somehow our awesome waitress made it happen. The traditional baklava tasted WAY too «clover-​y» for me. The chocolate dipped, however, was way good. It was a little too frozen as I read in another review but delicious none the less.
Our waitress was awesome, food was great. Can’t wait to be back!