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| - It has been a while (about 3 months) since my one and only trip to Sweet Basil, but I figured I should write this review now, since it is doubtful that I will be going back anytime soon.
The food, from what I remember, was good. Decent Neapolitan style pizza and standard salad. The drink menu, as I recall, was lackluster...pretty sure they only had soda and a small wine selection. I didn't remember the pizza or salad being anything extraordinary, but it was fine for general pizza eating purposes.
Chaotic would be the best way to describe this place. We went there on a Friday night. Lots of little kids and big families...I think this is the main reason the place did not appeal to me so much. There was a balloon clown. Perhaps Sweet Basil is just not meant for my demographic, and that's fine -- not every place is going to be. Still, the place seemed a bit out of control...someone's child dumped either water or soda with ice all over the floor near the entrance, and nobody was bothering to clean it up during our (very long, I might add) wait to be seated. I had to warn other patrons who were almost about to slip and fall to be careful. I even brought it to the staff's attention, but the spill with slippery ice remained there on the floor for quite a while. (I guess it never occurred to the parents of the child to make the child clean up his own spill, or else clean up after him themselves?)
There were big pictures of the owners' family all over the wall...weird.
Sweet Basil would probably be a good place for takeout. I haven't had their takeout but I could imagine enjoying it a lot more without the quiet din of a hundred young children incessantly babbling. If you have kids and are on the West side of Cleveland, you may want to consider taking them here.
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