We had a really nice meal here today. The area is still recovering from the snowy weekend so not many people out and about and not too many things open. It was nice to hangout here with our meet-up group in this cozy friendly place. We had the Vegan Gyoza and some Vegan pad Thai. Both were very good. I would definitely come here again next time I'm in Black Mountain. read more

I was so excited for this place. We ordered a number of dishes. It was supposed to be delivered in about 10 mins. The restaurant canceled. This was after they accepted our order 40 mins when we submitted the request. We waited for 45 mins for it to be delivered. Huge disappointment to have it canceled before we planned to eat. I will never order from here again. You should know if you can complete and order in 45 mine. A last minute cancellation says a lot read more

A great find in Black Mountain. I ordered the pineapple curry with chicken & my husband had the eggplant with tofu. Both were delicious. Table side spices allowed me to kick the heat up a notch. read more

Thai Basil - Pineapple curry with chicken. - Thai Near Me - Black Mountain, North Carolina

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Great local Thai spot always friendly service, fresh and delicious! Pretty fast also!

This place is a Helene survivor and under new management... the food is hands DOWN some of the best curry I've ever had! Get the yellow sweet and add some spice! Also the sushi boat was amazing!! On the app side ... the crab Rangoon and dumplings were FANTASTIC! Highly recommend! Come for your birthday and get the sushi boat and some sake!!! read more

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Attentive servers and generally good food but my chicken cashew was much too salty. HH liked his dish though. Large, large servings.

Small town awesome Thai food. ...Service was good, food was great. Very cozy indoor and welcoming outdoor seating areas. Great Tom Yum soup, spring rolls and cashew chicken. I loved how the chicken had some crunch to it, went well with the cashews, nice broth and vegetables too. We will be back! read more

Unassuming little place in downtown Black Mountain. We came for a quick lunch before the drive home from our vacation. Option for indoor or outdoor seating. Simple atmosphere. Varied menu. Attentive servers. Food hot, delicious, and came out of the kitchen pretty quickly. Especially loved the basil stir fry with chicken lunch special. This place checked all the boxes. Excellent. read more

The food was mediocre. The Pad Thai was made using only one of two spices and no egg, no peanuts, no tamarind sauce etc. The service was bad. We were given the check before ordering dessert. We ordered dessert and waited an hour for it. It was not worth the wait. The restaurant was cute looking, if all you want is cute. Oh, the Thai iced tea was great! read more

The food was delicious and beautifully presented at a reasonable price. Cute, comfortable ambiance and service was attentive without being overbearing. Will definitely return! read more

I loved the decor and ambiance of this restaurant. As for service, the waiters were good about refilling our water cups and the food came out reasonably fast. I ordered the turmeric curry with chicken and it was so good!! The curry sauce had amazing flavor and the perfect hint of spice. The vegetables were soft and tender and the rice on the side went beautifully with the dish. My sisters ordered the pad Thai and pad see-ew and both of these dishes had great flavor as well. I was super impressed by all the dishes we tried here and I would love to come back and try more! read more

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Food was delicious and portions were more than adequate. Service was wonderful. Highly recommend!

I'm told that these are new owners. If so they are certainly not new to great food and customer care. The food was excellent in taste and presentation and the service we attentive. Very welcoming place with outdoor seating that we appreciated and enjoyed. The soft shell crab curry was delicious as was all that we ordered. Don't miss this place!! read more

We got take out to eat in our hotel's patio area. It was very fresh and delicious. Everything made fresh ! So glad we decided to try their food as we were simply visiting in the area for the first time and did hear some good recommendations from locals. read more

Maybe use THAI BASIL in your dishes, that's the point. It is completely different than regular basil, more taste, flavor and fragrance it gives to each dish. I know the difference. I worked for Surin of Thailand for a few years, Google that restaurant. The original owners of this Black Mountain location made authentic thai food and even grew their own THAI BASIL beside the restaurant. Now, this is some kind of fusion place. At least change the name. So disappointed. read more

Excellence in all directions very intriguing and I'm sure delicious Oh cool, statues service was outstanding, and the ambience was simply beautiful stunning and clever. read more

We got dinner to-go and I have to say it was amazing. The won ton soup was delicious. We ordered steamed dumplings at the suggestion of the server and they were the most flavorful dumplings I've ever had. The glass noodles with chicken (ordered with no bell peppers- there was one wayward pepper but it didn't ruin the whole dish) was absolutely delicious. Everything was packed full of flavor and I can't wait to go back. read more

Delicious green curry with duck! Lots of tasty vegetables. The masaman lamb curry was really tender! The mangoes with sticky rice is such a beautiful presentation and scrumptious! Such a treat! read more

Repeat customers here and we can not say enough GREAT things about this place!! The food is always outstanding, the staff is the most friendly, the service is 5 stars and the ambiance cozy. We absolutely LOVE IT!! read more

Pretty solid Thai restaurant. My AirBnB host recommended this restaurant during my stay in Black Mountain. I ordered the Thai Basil Dumplings and their Pineapple Fried Rice. Both were delicious! I loved the sauce on top of the thai Basil Dumplings and the Pineapple Fried Rice had the perfect combination of pineapple, cashews and chicken to satisfy my tastebuds. read more

The food was great especially the amount you get for a lunch special which go for like $9 a plate. You can do brown rice for an up charge as well. Lots of options on the lunch menu and also some appetizers. We got the chicken green curry which came with a huge container of rice and the Thai basil chicken with brown rice. Both were delicious and we were so hungry we forgot to take a picture. As for the service I can't say it's even a 3 star. He was rude and almost like annoyed but he did get us everything we needed and came around. I love the little alter they have and you can also feed the koi fish! read more

Thai Basil - a stone carving of a buddha - Thai Near Me - Black Mountain, North Carolina

The food is rather good, service was a little on the slow side. It appears that there was only one server working and he was running! Good menu selection(s), spice level and wee bit under on my 1-5 scale. I ordered a level 4, both my wife and I thought it was a 2-3. Other than that it was a great experience. read more

Best pad Thai I've had in a long time! The Thai tea was incredible too! I can't wait to go back!

Like just about everywhere these days, restaurants are short staffed. Thai Basil is no exception. Still, we got our food and drinks quickly, and it was all delicious. The Tom Kha with tofu was so full of goodies it almost felt like a meal in itself (and I got the small portion as an appy). And my spicy eggplant (with fried tofu, but you can get several alternative main proteins) was not just flavorful, but oh so colorful. Local beer options were also delish; no surprise in the greater Asheville area. Definitely worth checking out if you are visiting Black Mountain. I have no doubt the locals already know about this tasty spot. read more

Thai Basil - Tom Kha - Thai Near Me - Black Mountain, North Carolina

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Food was just okay this visit, waiter seemed like he had better things to do and not excited to be there. My food spicey fish was okay but way over priced at $19 for lunch. What happened to lunch specials or lunch menu? The other parties stir fry chicken was just okay but the chicken was tough and did not even eat all of it. Probably my last visit. read more

We did take out and the food was really tasty. It had all our Thai favorites like: Amazing (chicken and broccoli in peanut sauce) Basil Fried Rice Curry, Curry Curry Everything we tried was good, i would not say amazing, but would certainly order from here again. The server forgot to pack utensils, so it took some effort to hunt them down from the hotel, but once we got them, everyone got to work. read more

Best Thai food in Asheville area, technically it's in Black Mountain though, and worth the drive for us. (((As a regular yelper I've taken a hiatus from writing reviews and came out of the woodworks to help Thai Basil be known. I think they are struggling due to covid as they have notes up that they are short-staffed, not answering phones at times, and have been out of menu items. This is all speculation though)). Overall, this is the best Pad Thai and best Thai food, as I've tried a lot in Asheville, Miami, and New York. It's perfectly seasoned, not too much fish sauce or too sweet, the flavor and noodles are perfectly cooked. We prefer to sit out on the patio and enjoy the cheap lunch specials (under $10! and huge portions). There is a strong fish smell inside so we tend to sit outside or get take-out. Beautiful view of downtown Black Mountain too and a nice area to walk around afterwards. It beats every other Thai place I've tried by a landslide. Highly recommend!! read more

I ordered take out. not too many restaurants in this town or variety and multiple people recommended this place. curb appeal ain't much, typical Thai menu. wow it's excellent! so flavorful, fresh and not oily. I'm a tough critic on food being from NY! read more

Great food and ambiance. Definitely some of the best Thai we have had around Charleston

Coy the manager in tonight was incredibly rude and disrespectful, as well as illegally discriminatory towards a person with a registered ADA disability and a registered well behaved service dog. He was unwilling to recognize the actual law, even when informed of the law and ADA guidelines and instead insisted he was correct, did not apologize, and did not take the time to even acknowledge or view the official diagnosis and paperwork when given. Coy continued to disregard a loyal customer, refuting he'd met us before and couldn't care less he was acting illegally and disrespectfully. I cried leaving and am heartbroken others may experience this level of illegal discrimination. Please do not frequent this establishment until Coy is no longer there. read more

Giving this restaurant 3 stars because the service was poor & the food was okay. Our waiter seemed very uninterested & hardly spoke at all. The noodles were good but nothing crazy good. Disappointed because almost all of the places I have been to in Black Mountain have been excellent. I got the Pad Chow Mein. The cup I got for my drink was super scratched up too. I have heard that sometimes the food is a hit or miss so maybe it is worth trying to go another time. read more

Thai Basil - Thai Near Me - Black Mountain, North Carolina

Great food, great flavors. Will be back. We did takeout. Order was hot and correct.

I was in town for a local herbal symposium at the YMCA and was looking for something hardy and delicious to eat. Everybody at the symposium raved about how great this Thai restaurant was from their previous years. It was about an hour before they closed for dinner prep and I was frantically searching the menu, trying to decide what I wanted to order! Their menu had multiple categories of delicious sounding meals. It made it pretty hard for me to decide on just one! I finally decided on the spicy eggplant with chicken stirfry. The meal was prepared quickly, which made me very happy. The eggplant sauté was a light mild spice. The eggplants were bright purple and were gorgeous upon opening the plastic container. The pop of color was definitely attractive among the orange carrots and various sautéed veggies. There was just enough sauce and overall the portion size was perfect. The rice was a little dry, but no reason to mark off for that. If you are ever in the Black Mountain area, definitely stop by Thai Basil and try an entrée, or two! read more

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This place was amazing! The hours weren't the best but when we finally got to go here on our trip to black mountain we were not disappointed. My mom and I started with the Curry puff appetizer which has ground chicken and is encased in the most delicious fried crispy shell. We also tried the Tom Kha soup which I have never had and now I regret all my past decisions- I can't believe I have ever tried this soup and I'm not sure if it's just this places version of it but it is the best thing I've ever tasted. After the starters we shared the massaman curry which is my all time fave (theirs was food but not the best I've ever had) and tried something new- siracha noodle. This also made me want to reevaluate my life choices- why have I never had this??!! It was so spicy but so delicious!! The meat portions weren't the most generous but the shrimp and chicken were so tasty. Wish it was cleaner here and the wait staff could definitely be friendlier and more helpful but the cooks know what they're doing!! read more

Thai Basil - Tom Kha, Curry Puff and Thai Iced Tea - Thai Near Me - Black Mountain, North Carolina

We've gotten take out from TB three times in the past 2 months. The food is good - well prepared. Very tasty and some dishes have a unique Thai flare. My only observation is the staff have always been short, sometimes rude and never really engage. In fact, they convey frustration about being too busy. Busy is good in the food service world. They have signs up to "be patient - short staffed" and we clearly understand. Being nice would add a star or two. Your food is great. We understand the staffing challenges. Thanks... read more

I eat a lot of Thai food, and this was my first time eating here. It's just okay. The crab rangoon was bland and the pad see ew, my favorite dish, was fine but definitely not my favorite. read more

Delicious food! We got a curry, stir fry and salad and all of it was perfectly seasoned. We were there on a Saturday night and the place was full, chilly out so the patio wasn't open- really nice to walk through though! I noticed the comments about the service when I looked this place up- there were 2 guys that we interacted with- one was very warm and attentive, the other wasn't as warm, but was just as attentive! We got our food fast, our drinks were always filled, they were bussing and cleaning other tables and asking how the guests were as they went. If you want a place with servers who are performative, maybe this isn't your spot. If you want really good food and to be taken care of in an efficient and kind way, this is it. read more

Witnessed a horrific interaction with the man identifying himself as the manager (Koy?) and a disabled customer. Saw him berate and demean a woman and her service dog this past week to the point she left in tears. His rudeness and condescending attitude towards her and her disability were disgusting to witness. He openly and publicly questioned her disability, and then had the audacity to tell her that her disability "didn't qualify". Absolutely shameful. I truly hope she reports this to the board of health and the media. We will not be back. read more

I'm in town for a conference and I've eaten here three days in a row mainly because I've been craving Asian food this week and choices in Black Mountain are limited. I've had the fresh basil rolls, pad kee mow, pad thai, and tom yum soup. The noodle dishes were fine, but I keep coming back for the tom yum. The amount of seafood is generous, and the broth is the perfect blend of sweet, savory, spicy, and sour. Service is slow, but friendly. read more

We arrived a half an hour before closing and the waiter still happily served us! Delicious dishes - it didn't blow my mind but it was still nice to eat. Sitting on the porch was nice - enjoyed a summer breeze and our server made sure we never ran out of ice water. read more