Basil Box

Located at TMU where Yonge St meets Elm Street, east side of Yonge. It shares its space with TasteT House (a local bbt spot).

Usually when I visit on weekdays either around lunch hours of 1-3 or after work 5-8, there's only 1 person ahead of me.

Basil Box has a special place in my heart. I've been visiting several of their locations since they first started out in Toronto. It's one of my go-to spots when I need something that feels like healthier fast food. Most of my orders turned out to be terrible combinations full of regret that were totally my fault. For one order, I asked them to cover my BYOB in Thai Chilis, not realizing how spicy it was, and spent the whole meal crying inside their store while their staff looked on.

During my most recent visit, I was lucky and realized maybe Peanut Sauce is the key to the BYOB. I got their Tofu curry walk in daily special for ~$11. It was so good, I was really surprised. The portion was enough to stretch to a 2nd meal. Although weirdly the rice hardened so I ended up throwing those leftovers away...:(

Their Thai iced tea is OK. I feel every other BBT spot makes it better. Theirs is a bit watery. I tried their new satay fries. It's just fries seasoned with some satay seasoning powder (if you add on an egg to your dish, know you're literally getting a sunny side up egg with that powder on top). I thought it was too salty, and had to drown it out with other food items.

They have a partnership with Wong's ice cream so I definitely recommend trying those pints out.

Lots of different seating, good if you're alone or with friends. It's also relatively quiet; you could probably get away with studying or working remotely here.

I came in with my friends to have some gluten free food and I was surprised that their whole menu (minus the fried items) were gluten free and cost efficient too!! I will be coming back

I came in for lunch and had a Vegan Tofu Bao. It was so delicious and the bao buns were so soft and tasty.

The served me RAW shrimps. Not even slightly cooked. And i ordered shrimp bowl with extra shrimps, i got a chicken bowl with raw shrimps thrown there. Whoever closed the place on tuesday night should be fired. Disgusting. Also, 5 dollars extra for 4 pieces of tiny RAW shrimps

EDIT: i reached out as they asked and no reply.. just for show

We had the opportunity to try Pad Thai, Basil Chicken, and Butterfly Shrimp, and all three dishes were delicious. The chicken, in particular, stood out as exceptionally tasty. However, our dining experience encountered a minor issue with the service. When I placed our orders with the server, he instructed us to wait for approximately 10 minutes. We patiently waited on the side, and when the specified time had elapsed, I approached the server again. To my surprise, he exclaimed, "Oh, I thought you had left, so I didn't process your orders." I reminded him that he had explicitly asked us to wait for 10 minutes. Nevertheless, he promptly acknowledged the misunderstanding and kindly informed us that we wouldn't be charged for the Butterfly Shrimp. Despite this hiccup, everything else was enjoyable and satisfying.

Great Staff & amazing service! I like this branch as you can feel very relaxing and spacious, high ceiling with lots of sunlight throughout the window. Fantastic location!!!!!

When I was thinking about shrimp and steak in a dilemma circumstance to build my own box, but their staff told me that I can do half & half. I really appreciate their attentive, love the shrimp and steak. They cooked it fresh for me.

Well, their spring rolls was really good too with the special source, unfortunately I cannot remember the name correctly. It should be something like pineapple. I love their fries too, you can add extra lemongrass chicken on the top by paying extra. This is what I did on the picture. I shared this with my friends during tea time.

This time I gave up my always favorite Thai ice tea instead of Soda, it's really refreshing. It should be called rose soda or something like this.

Second time around... Had the lemongrass chicken poutine. Yes! Fries with curds, lemongrass boneless chicken pieces and a spicy gravy . Garnished with shredded carrots, fried onions, coriander and red Thai chillies. Delicious, spicy and flavorful from the lemongrass.

First time here. Friendly staff. I had the coconut curry tofu. They build the "box" in layers first the noodles, edamame, sweet potato, tofu, choice of curry and garnish with sesame seeds,fried onions, cilantro, red Thai chili peppers, peanut... There's lots more to choose from and healthy food.

This Basil Box has really caring staff and great attention to your food preparation. We appreciate that they offer a few more than the Eaton Centre food court's Basil Box. Worth coming over to this location instead!

The staff are very accommodating and gives great recommendations. They served another customer that has a dietary concern and flagged any available options they could eat. They also offered customizing to their preference and suggested great alternatives. Good healthy choices!

They have a lot of good custom order option/set up so that you can mix and match. This location offers additional Satay Seasoned Fried Egg (for additional cost) and #4 Sauce option of Saigon Curry which is not common. We usually get the Chili Lime Shrimp which is pretty spicy and delicious! This location offers sautéed eggplant and charred sweet potatoes which is great as well. Really good value and carries well!