Sweet Basil

Really good! Ordered the pad se ew with beef it was great, tasty, savory. Coconut rice and curry puffs. Wasn’t crazy about the curry puffs and the spar rib app was not good. Delivery was super fast and I was really satisfied with my order. Portions are big too. Great place to order from for Thai food or dine at. Definitely a thumbs up!

I often order their food for delivery. One of my favorite is the drunken noodle. It is the best drunken noodle i have ever tasted!!! Their fried rice is amazing too! Especially the sweet basil fried rice is sooo good. This place is my favorite thai restaurant:)

Great lunch special, extraordinary service and amazing prices! Found this place when taking the bus into the city from Laguardia, and it was just the perfect break from a hectic day of business travel. The Pad Thai was beautiful, not overly sweet and had generous amount of tofu incorporated within. The salad was like a summer afternoon in food form – spicy, sweet, bright and green. Will be back!

Sweet Basil is one of my go-​to places for lunch whenever I’m in the vicinity of Woodside and have the craving for Thai food. Of course, if you search Unilocal for Thai restaurants in this neighborhood, you’ll probably find at least a dozen other options. But I like Sweet Basil because the food here is delicious and unpretentious. Love the Drunken Noodles — so flavorful with the right amount of spice blended with the sweet aroma from fresh basil. Lunch orders usually come with crispy spring roll (fried spring roll stuffed with vegetables and glass noodles, served with plum sauce) and Thai Salad (green salad with peanut dressing), all for under $ 10.

this is the favourite restaurant of my aunt and uncle. I love their Tom Yum soup and I keep on ordering that whenever I’m here. I also love their Tilapia. the waitress in this place is also very nice.

This place is a gem and will satisfy all your thai cravings! Everything is good here. Must try the drunken noodles, the fried red snapper, the green curry, the glass noodles, the mango salad, the fried ice cream, and the chocolate mousse cake (which is the best chocolate mousse cake I have ever had!) The owner is amazing and kind!

Great place food is delicious. I had the chicken red curry extra spicy out of this world.

Authentic Thai Cuisine! :). I loved the food, and the place felt like home. The staff too were very friendly and helpful as far as the menu goes. Not too spicy though by my standards, but it sure is a good place to eat Asian food. :)

I’ve been ordering from this place more often than I wanted to. There’s another thai restaurant about 3 blocks away and it’s definitely tastier, but I end up here because of my history with this restaurant and its location. My first time having thai food was right here many years ago and it still feels right to me. It’s also conveniently located by the Woodside train station so this is where I go if it’s cold outside and I’d much rather walk one block than 5.
I’d recommend getting their curry. You can’t go wrong with thai curries. I’ve had better pad thai and pad see ew, but it’s decent here. One thing though if you’re delivering, the noodle dishes don’t travel well cuz it tends to dry out with each passing minute. So make sure you get these dishes when you’re eating AT the restaurant and eat it fast. Works best when you’re starving.
The best part is the lunch specials. It comes with one spring roll and a salad that has an addictive ginger/​peanut dressing. The salad is the first salad dish i was able to tolerate growing up even though I never ate my vegetables. So give it a try! The papaya salad is good too if you’re thinking appetizers! SPRING ROLLS ARE A MUST

This local Thai place is tasty, inexpensive, and a strangely calming atmosphere. Stopped in for dinner with my sister this weekend and we picked a couple of appetizers and a main to share. Went with the steamed veggie dumplings, crispy spring rolls, and a chicken pad Thai. She doesn’t have the most adventurous palate, so when I return I’ll be trying dishes from all over the menu! They have a great selection of hot and cold appetizers, rice dishes, noodle dishes, and curries that all looked incredibly tasty.
The crunchy spring rolls had a nice little kick to them thanks to a healthy dose of black pepper. They paired well with the provided dipping sauce, which was very similar to duck sauce, which I’ve always had a weakness for. The veggie dumplings were tasty, but a bit bland. The chicken pad Thai was plentiful and had a delectable sauce. I definitely could have and should have ordered one of my own.
Even though it’s located on Roosevelt Ave in Queens, it is quiet and calming inside. A nice urban oasis where you can eat and visit in a relaxed environment.
Our bill came to $ 21, which is beyond reasonable! Good value, delicious food… can’t be beat.

Available on seemingly every web ordering service around, redeemed an expiring code here for their 50. Glass Noodles with Squid for $ 11.00 and was satisfied but far from impressed.

Lunch special is a good deal, it comes with salad and spring roll. Nice and clean enviroment, staff friendly. Food is good.

A nice Thai restaurant with simple and pretty ambiance. Their Pad Thai is good and flavorful. I was a little disappointed with the Tom Kha Gai, it was missing that wow factor.

This place is quiet unlike the overrated sripapai few blocks down, which is always over crowed for same food and just about okay service.
So, I always go to sweet basil when I am in mood for some Thai food. I love their Drunken Noodle. They have Great lunch specials, service is also good and price is very reasonable.

The panang curry is my favorite dish from here. I usually get it with shrimp or mixed seafood. One of my favorite thai curries thus far. I have had it here and another restuarant and both have won me over. It is a great place for take out I learned about this place from grubhub. Especially with the past winter we had take out/​delivery has become more of a frequent thing.

I had the Tom yum and the Spicy Drunken Noodles!!! Everything was absolutely delicious! And the price is great! Staff is wonderful! Will definitely be my new neighborhood hang out for Thai food!

I went to this spot few times, my last visit to this spot was 1÷29÷2015 with my friend. This restaurant changed the chef and staff the food is cold, smelly undercooked meat. & the portions got small.
Careless staff and crazy creepy waitress who stares at your food while you eat. Done with this place! Dont go save your money go to red basil in astoria queens NYC for better thai food.

I barely read the main courses on the menu since I was in the mood for salad, and the papaya version was a winner. It didn’t have a zillion ingredients and didn’t need them, but it did have a great lime kick to it. This may not be an ideal adjective for November but I’d say the fresh papaya had a summery feeling to it.
I also had the shrimp tom yum soup, which was fine but you could probably find a better one elsewhere. I have no quarrel with broth itself, a delightfully sour concoction, but aside from a few shrimp and mushrooms, it was somewhat lacking in mass.

There are so many excellent Thai restaurants in the area, you wonder how they all stay in business! My favorites are Sripraphai (
), Playground Thai (
), and Zabb Elee (
).
Sadly, Sweet Basil takes home the medal for the worst. Once, for a delivery order, they ignored a specific request I’d made to call a different phone number, AND then wrote MY number incorrectly. So we didn’t get the order until everything was sorted out and our food had a thin layer of failure coagulated over it.
I’m not going to judge them by our cold dinner that time, but I am disappointed I gave them another shot. This time, my tom yum was terribly balanced, came with sad, limp veggies (mostly discolored snowpeas and napa cabbage stems!), and tasted like a sour version of the watery tomato broth you’d get at a hospital following an operation. I get that tom yum is hard to make well, but if you’re going to do it that badly, just leave it off the menu. (Note: Sripraphai’s tom yum is quite good)
The red curry noodle soup was too heavy on the coconut milk and will make you feel about 5 years closer to a cardiac event. An appetizer of nurr yang (sliced grilled beef with a fish sauce and garlic dipping sauce) was nothing special.
Prices are the same as other Thai in the area, except getting anything other than vegetable or tofu in your entrée costs extra.
This rendition of Thai cuisine is maybe average for Wichita or something, but completely subpar for Queens. For great Thai close by, try Sripraphai. Or, Playground and Zabb Elee both deliver. If you’re standing in front of Sweet Basil and just want your belly filled with something worthwhile, walk into Masala next door for great Indian food. Emphasis on worthwhile.

Celebrated my brother and dad’s birthday at this yummy Thai restaurant. The owner, Jenny, was super sweet and friendly. She made sure we were taken care of and treated like part of the family.
With the 90 degree weather outside, I had to order a thai iced tea to quench my thirst. Cold, refreshing, milky, and not too overly sweet, one of the better ones I’ve had in a long time.
Table of 9 (2 of which were my baby nephews) we devoured:
2 drunken noodles — like pad kee mao, spicy flat noodles with your choice of meat, it had the right amount of heat and the noodles weren’t soggy. I would order this again.
1 pad thai — one of the fav amongst the table
2 soft shelled crab — choice of three flavors (mango, tamerin or chili basil), we opted for the chili basil, although the mango sounded really interesting. The herbs, basil and chili really permeated and the aroma made my mouth water. Let’s just say, within 10 mins, both plates were gone.
1 red snapper fish — with scallion and ginger, not bad. My fam ate most of it by the time I got to it, so I only got a lil sample haha.
Pineapple fried rice — it tasted like Singapore mei fun with pineapples. For me, I wasn’t feeling it.
Shrimp pah nan (?) — I’ll have to update the name later, I know I’m butchering it. This was one of my fav dishes in this meal. This curry seemed like it was mild, but it packed a punch in the beginning, but the coconut milk and bamboo shoots cooled it down for the after taste. Really good.
For dessert, they gave us mango with sweet sticky rice. Never I would like sticky rice other than dim sum but surprisingly, this was really good. Again, it left us scraping our plates until the last piece of mango was gone.
We all walked out full, happy and ready for a nap.