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| - Basil is Thai food for people who don't like Thai food, and enjoy upscale decor, pedestrian beer and wine lists and TV's broadcasting sports. In other words, Basil is perfect for the "Uptown" Charlotte crowd it caters to. To be fair, I had a perfectly fine, fresh spring roll and yum neua (beef salad). The ingredients were fresh, the beef was nicely cooked to medium and the dressing was redolent with fish sauce and citrus. On a bed of iceberg lettuce - snooze.
The only Thai beer on the menu is Singha. There are ridiculous specialty cocktails, and lots of members of the pad family on the menu: Thai, woon sen, etc. I gave Basil a try on a work trip, because my Charlotte colleagues had raved about it, but I was overall completely underwhelmed.
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