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Went for lunch with colleagues. This place was a bit tricky to find (if we didnt have someone who knows how to get there). quite busy during lunch tim…
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Holy Basil
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Been here a few times and I love the fried ice cream! Always will get dessert from this place. Service is relatively fast, the Thai food itself is gre…
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Holy Basil
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Great place for dinner and drinks with friends on a Friday night, gets super busy on a Friday night, but worth the wait if you haven't booked ahead. M…
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7 Reviews on “Holy Basil”
Went for lunch with colleagues. This place was a bit tricky to find (if we didnt have someone who knows how to get there). quite busy during lunch time, many large groups (8+) having lunch here. So you may want to book in advance if you have a large group of people. Its a bar mixed restaurant, liked their decor. We ordered 4 dishes, food was great, but slightly too salty, and served a bit too slow (we waited for 30-40 min to get our food). Tom Yum soup was not as good as the other dishes. Only 3 wait staff in the restaurant, they prob should consider have a few more staff during peak hours.
Been here a few times and I love the fried ice cream! Always will get dessert from this place. Service is relatively fast, the Thai food itself is great but slightly on the saltier side. A bit of a tricky place to find considering it’s within a bar/pub area. Decent value for your money.
Great place for dinner and drinks with friends on a Friday night, gets super busy on a Friday night, but worth the wait if you haven’t booked ahead. My friends and I go back regularly for a feast because of the quality of food and the reasonable pricing.Go to items on the menu include the duck red curry and the roast pork belly, but the signature item Holy Basil is known for is the fried ice cream. No matter how full we are from the mains, there’s always room for some Holy Basil fried ice cream!
We ordered Ox tongue, curry puffs, soft shell crab with green papaya salad, and chicken pad thai for dinner to share between 3 people. The dishes were served promptly even though it was quite packed for a Monday night. The ox tongue has a smoky flavour to it which paired well with the sauce; and I really enjoyed the pad thai – it was cooked just right, not soggy and very generous with the toppings. A lot of the other patrons ordered the soft shell crab as well, so it must be a signature dish.
Amazing quality Thai food! Have been here a few times with friends and always love it. Great place to meet up with a big group of friends or for a celebration as the food is delicious and its amazing value.
This review is specifically for their dessert menu. It was after dinner we just wanted some desserts and drinks. Happened to walk pass as we were still pondering where to go to get both. Given that this is actually inside a pub, makes it pretty handy on the drinks front. The dessert menu though only has 4 items on it, but for me there were only 2 options, the fried ice cream or the sticky rice pudding. The unanimous choice of the table was the fried ice cream & we all ended up getting one. It was pretty tasty. It was spring roll pastry around the ice cream, which made it quite crispy. The addition of the sticky rice on the side gave it good texture. Overall pretty satisfying.
Youll definitely need to book if you want have Friday night dinner at Holy Basil, and be prepared to navigate the end-of-week after-work crowd to get to the restaurant which is located at the farthest end away from the entrance on the first floor of the Shark Hotel, past the bar. But once you get there, youll be greeted with an array of tasty Thai and Laotian dishes. Its not a place for a quiet, intimate dinner but perfect for a casual and convivial catch up over delicious food.Of all the meals our party of six shared which included chicken satay, tom yum, ox tongue, pad see ew and green curry chicken the standout was the massaman curry with its thick chunks of tender beef in a creamy, slightly sweet curry sauce. There will have to be a return visit to try their famous deep fried ice cream.