Sweet Basil Thai Bistro

Awesome place. Clean, courteous, fast. Food was well prepared, one of the better Thai places that we’ve eaten At. Would come again.

their vegetarian pineapple rice was really good and filling. The curry was even better. good service, nice atmosphere. you won’t be disappointed.

This restaurant is amazing! I love everything about it. The food is spot on, and I’ve traveled to Thailand… so I know what the flavor should be like! The staff is friendly every single time I go in, which is often. I absolutely love the yellow curry chicken and dumplings. Their Thai Tea and all of their smoothies are delicious. I love the way they decorated everything. I just can’t say enough good things about this establishment. I recommend it to everyone I know and will go there for as long as they stay open!

Great food, good prices, and great service.
The food was good. They were able to make our food when we made a special request to an item. Everyone there was super attentive and made sure we were good throughout the night.

Great service! Good food! Dumplings, chicken satay, pad Thai and chicken yellow curry. Enjoyed all the dishes!

Unilocaled this place and decided to give it a try because of the reviews. Not disappointed at all! The food was very flavorful with a pungent taste. Ordered pad Thai, panang and BBQ chicken. The chicken was moist and not dry. Service was great too. Will definitely be coming back.

Wouldn’t come back here. The curry was thin and had barely any chicken. The peanut sauce for the spring rolls was thin runny as well. Price is high for the amount of meat you get. Not terrible, just feel like they add water to everything to save money or something.

The place isn’t bad. The staff are very courteous and attentive. The restaurant caters to its customers. As a result, the food is dumbed down and bland. Their spicy dishes aren’t spicy. The dishes that require limes have lost their brightness. And although they are a Thai restaurant (the staff is also Thai) instead of a Laos one; they really shouldn’t serve soggy sticky rice.
There have been reviews saying this place is the best Thai food in the IE. That just makes me sad.

Words cannot describe how good this restaurant is. I found it driving around one day and ended up giving it a shot. It’s very bright and welcoming and the staff is super friendly. They always have a smile on their face. The food is phenomenal. Everything is fresh and cooked to perfection. I love getting orange tofu. I honestly would recommend anything with tofu on the menu (I’m vegetarian). I wish I could give them 100 stars!

This place is Clean but a little outdated, there’s not music or any type or ambiance; it’s all quiet and boring. We had to wait for almost an hour for our food and the place wasn’t even packed. Even though the server was nice it took her about 20min to bring our drinks. While waiting we noticed many other people getting impatient and asking for their food to go because they had been waiting for over an hour! Food was okay but definitely not worth the long wait.

This business has been around since 2011. It seems to be quite popular for the area, and for a Sunday night, they were not hurting for business. So I am a bit surprised at the outcome of our first meal here. It will be our only meal here, btw. Not to be mean, but this meal was not anything worth repeating.
Other than the delightful waitress who could do no wrong, the meal lacked several key flavor points that make me love Southeast Asian cuisine: bright tangy lime, salty fish sauce, and the lovely smoky taste that is rendered from an incredibly hot wok.
Our first dish set the stage. The Crab Fried Rice. A generous portion of fluffy rice that was already pre-​fried, it came to us warm, not hot, the crab and egg skimpy. I found this version quite bland and boring. A supremely hot wok for smokiness and significant flavor boosters such as fish sauce could have made this a good dish.
Our meat dish, the Crying Tiger, was a disappointment. The steak was tough and presented at room temp. We returned it to the kitchen where they simply re-​heated it and put it back on the same serving platter. Tacky. They got the chile lime dipping sauce right however. Tasty.
Our third dish was a meatless Pad Woo Sen, stir fried glass noodles with vegetables and tofu. Again, the dish was oddly just warm. The tofu had obviously been precooked as it had no heat coming from it, and worse, it was tough. Again, the signature smoky flavor profile was missing making it a dish that I robotically ate without enthusiasm.
«Just Warm» is a real pet peeve of mine. Why our food came out lukewarm is a mystery. The other dining room tables, while many were occupied, were already served. So our meal was the only to be prepared at that time. Nor was it overly air conditioned, the kiss of death for a hot meal. And it seemed as if the kitchen was taking too many short cuts by pre-​cooking in the name of efficiency, then not allowing the food to reheat to an acceptable temperature.
I am not a fan.

Food is great but a little pricey. Service always good and fresh. Only had for take out never dined in

First time trying Thai Food and I have to say I’m hooked! Not sure why I hadn’t tried it sooner but I’m super excited that this little restaurant is right around the corner from me. Service and food were terrific

This place is okay. I’ve def had way better Thai food. Although, I do have to say their tom kha soup is AMAZING. Very flavorful. Other dishes, not so much. First time I went, I had the sweet and sour fish and it wasn’t what I was expecting. Second time, I had the pad see ewe and it just didn’t have much flavor. The noodles were stuck together in chunks so it didn’t have any sauce on them, just chunks of plain noodles. Bleh. But the service is pretty good. The lady that served us both times was very attentive, nice and def a hard worker. Anyhow, I would only come back here for the soup.

Fresh food, quick service and very attentive. A lot of food for the price. I would go again.

So I frequent this place at least 2x a month and so far nothing has been less than perfection. I love this small thai restaurant. I normally order chicken pad thai, beef pad see ew, yellow chicken curry, and have tried countless items from their menu. My most favorite though are those listed above. The workers are very sweet and portion size is big. I love the owner she’s always so happy and delightful. Their thai iced teas are amazing as well. Awesome little gem in corona :)

After driving around later in the evening, craving something different, I saw this place and immediately decided this is what I want.
I’m so glad we stopped!
They were very friendly, the Thai tea is large and not to sweet.
We ordered the dumplings, they were pretty good and browned, without being oily.
I ordered the hot basil with calamari and shrimp with spice level at 7. It was perfectly cooked, the shrimp were plump and tasty, the calamari was the small round cuts and very tender not at all over cooked.
The spice level was perfect, with a nice tingle not at all numbing. It came with a side of rice.
My date had the wide noodles with beef, it was a nice sized portion with lots of meat.
His spice level was 5 and on the spicier side.
We will be back for sure!
Cute little spot, cozy and inviting

I give this place a star for the food and the food only. The customer service is terrible and the silverware is always dirty. I recommend asking for plastic silverware.

Thanks to my peeps on Unilocal for the recommendation. I felt like Thai this evening and didn’t want to wait for seating like the good Thai joint up in Mira Loma. We ordered the cucumber salad, fried tofu, dumplings, seven seas soup, and pad see ew with beef. The kids were simpletons and went with white rice aka my nemesis, so good yet so bad for you. The kids were given cute little toddler plastic plates; my 6 year old boy was so offended though, it was funny. The dishes are a decent size and good for a serving, not too much food which is a good thing.
The soup was good but not great, it had a very strong flavor of lemon grass and basil, my wife spit it out and I laughed. Wasn’t for her but I liked it. Plenty of seafood in the pot. It could easily give 4 small servings and does not look like a ton of calories. Sorry, I view all food as number of minutes/​hours I need to spend working out. Works for me.
The dumplings and tofu were good appetizers as well. The pad see ew was a bit too greasy for me and the noodles were overcooked. Their white rice was perfect. Plenty of refills on the soft drinks but not the Thai iced tea.
I did greatly appreciate the customer service. There was one waitress with a half full/​half empty restaurant and she was managing all with ease and at the same time answering phone calls for take out and dealing with customers for pick up. The food came quickly and I did not have to wait for my drink to be refilled.
I would try this place again and order something different. It was very inexpensive as well, $ 38 total and left $ 10 tip.
I think this place needs to get together with the Mira Loma joint to swap their secrets on customer service/​wait time and get Buddha’s food recipes. I wish I would have tried the crying tiger. If you’re in Boro and want some decent Thai food with great customer service than this place is right for you. Happy eating!

Went there for lunch today. What a nice little gem to have near by! We ordered some spring rolls to start, which were delicious. Then I had some Tom yum soup which was also amazing and for lunch I had the crying tiger special.
The meal was fresh, well prepared with generous portions. I enjoyed it very much! The service was very prompt and the food was out very quickly. Everyone here was very friendly and hospitable. I can’t wait to come back and try more of the menu!