New Thai Place on Franklin between Park and Prospect

What's the name of the place? Anything interesting on the menu? Pricing?

Whyfi- this place is called Sweet Basil. It is located at Franklin and Park.

It doesn't seem to have a website, but I'm sure Yelp will get its menu on line soon.

I got green curry with veggies and tofu for lunch yesterday. Asked for it spicy, and it was rightfully, nose-runningly hot. Huzzah! And just $6.50 for the lunch special. It was tasty times. Great addition to the area.

I ordered delivery last night. It was a nice tasty alternative, but I still like Udom Thai more. Still, I plan to call again or stop by.

marla_singer said:

I ordered delivery last night. It was a nice tasty alternative, but I still like Udom Thai more. Still, I plan to call again or stop by.

Yeah, not a good sign when it can't even beat Udom...

I have eaten 5 things so far. All are ok but nothing spicy or savory as the recipes are described. The Pad Thai, Massiman, Ginger Joy were all good but special or very hot spicy or temp. The tofu appetizer is good, The spicy calamari is just not spicy. I will keep trying but...

Leozoeypiper said:

Our food arrived 10 minutes after we placed the order which made me think that not too much care really was put into making our food very appetizing. I will never order from them again.

Fwiw, if you've got everything prepped, as most Thai restaurants do and should, the actual cooking is incredibly fast. I was surprised how quickly Thai delivery usually was until I took a Thai cooking class. It takes a lot longer for the food to cool off enough to eat than it does to cook it. You toss first set of ingredients in, saute a minute or less then add next ingredients and cooke another minute or two. Possibly one more group of ingredients, depending on what the dish is, then done. Given the right ingredients, a delicious meal can come from a restaurant kitchen in 5 minutes or less.

That area needs more food options, so hopefully this place works out any kinks.

My class was also in Thailand! We got to ride bikes around a farm, but my bike had no working breaks Cost about $25 for a full day as opposed to hundreds here.

I was in northern Thailand and we got to make ours pretty spicy and ate many authentic meals that were VERY spicy (we're not even sure we were at restaurants for some of these, maybe someone decided to make 50 cents off of some tourists who could say the name of a dish and a meat in Thai). The spice wasn't the kind that lingers, but it hits hard and then passes after you sweat a bit. It was all very flavorful, regardless of how hot it was. I spent weeks eating wonderful meals.

Our teacher emphasized that different areas of Thailand have very different foods or versions of the same dish, like curry. When we traveled to the far south, we definitely experienced a big change in the food, including less spicy.

We learned in the class we took that, at least in Thailand (need to try it here), if you ask for Thai spicy, you get a wonderfully spicy dish.

Now I want Thai food. Does anyone know of anywhere that sells *fresh* curry paste, other than the Bangkok Market near Mott St? They are out for a while.

Delicious. My girlfriend and I went on Friday night. We ordered a Mango Shrimp and duck. For dessert; tempura cheese cake. It all came up to $39. They took their time to prepare, but it was ok; we were enjoying the night.

I got a menu on my doorstep yesterday, on Midwood Street, in PLG. I hope that means that this place delivers here now. The map on their menu shows Eastern Parkway as the southern boundary of their delivery area.

All caps - really? Do you think anyone reads that?

ate there yesterday..asked for red curry..we don't have any. They do but they call it Panang. It is good and again not spicy at all even after asking for it to be prepared "face red, eye watering spicy"..still non committed . The string beans with red ginger chili thing was also excellent.

I have eaten here 3 times. I will definitely go back for more and based on what I have seen this is a great addition to the hood. I do know however that I need to try more stuff on the menu. For the record, I dont like Udom Thai (ate there 3 times blecch), hate the pitiful excuse for Thai or Japanese on Franklin shudder to remember the name, absolutely love Lemongrass Thai on 7th Ave and my favorite local Thai restaurant is Fulton Thai. For the record Fulton Thai is on the PH/Clinton Hill border but delivers here into Crown Heights.

Back to Sweet Basil:

First time ordered: springrolls, lemon grass porkchops, and coconut mango dessert.

Second time ordered: springrolls and the thai house fried rice with shrimp.

Third time ordered: avocado salad and lemon grass pork chops.

The spring rolls are light and non greasy. The lemon grass porkchops are delicious which is why I keep ordering them. The only disappointment is the vegetables served with them that seemed to be steamed but tasteless.

I thought the avocado salad was perfect. A simple salad with thinly sliced avocado placed on top of a bed of iceberg and maybe a few spinach or mesclun leaves. The dressing is a tart and tasty dressing made from citrus with a hint of sesame oil. Simple but yummy.

The Thai fried rice was a disappointment and was particularly bland. Will give it another try at some point with the pineapple fried rice and hope they dont mess up.

The coconut rice dessert was pretty good. The mango was lovely but generally I wasnt feeling the rice though it was very coconut-y and sweet. Maybe another time cause I know sometimes Asian desserts are hit or miss for me.

On the whole, I wish they had more pork dishes and fish dishes on the menu since I dont eat beef or chicken that much. (Since when is salmon teriyaki Thai food?). Anyway, I will still keep it in rotation between Sweet Basil and Fulton Thai.

I ordered some food yesterday, pineapple curry, pad thai, papaya salad and glass noodles. It was good without being spectacular. I will definitely order from them again and will try the sit down one of these days.

I vote to keep them.