Thai Basil in Craven - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

We booked at short notice on a Friday night, to try Thai Basil for the first time. The vegetarian massaman (rarely offered by Thai restaurants) was especially enjoyable and portion sizes were just right. We look forward to coming back next time we a re in Skipton

Food very mediocre, not authentic very much out of the freezer, over sweet and very runny thin sauces a disappointing experience, will not be returning

What an amazing little restaurant!!! So many small details in decoration around the room that I couldn't stop taking pictures and trying to get the other guests in the room. Good portions, super tasty and super affordable prices. Service very efficient and friendly. Waiting time for drinks and food were between 5 a 10 minutes! Super quick!

Well we booked a table for 9pm and we arrived 9.15pm. Took the staff over 10 minutes to take our order - when we finally placed an order the waiter said ‘Do you mind if I bring starters and mains together because the kitchen closes at 9.39?’ We had ordered spring rolls which was served with no additional cutlery offered - the tables are served with spoon / fork - so no knife offered to eat spring rolls. Plus the gentleman toilets do not have a lock and there was wee all over the floor. Overall a massive disappointment!!£

Super meal at this Thai restaurant. We hadn’t booked and as the restaurant was busy we didn’t think we’d get a table. However the very helpful staff fitted us in. Food was absolutely delicious.

A very quaint place with a hint of the jungle. Tigers a plenty and monkeys. Food was excellent and the usual sort of price for Thai food. Service was good and atmosphere very pleasant.

Awful, inedible. It is the first time I have ever walked out of a restaurant have looked at and tasted such terrible food.

We ate here a week ago on the first night of a week in Skipton and found it very pleasant indeed. There is a wide range of options on the menu and just enough little touches of originality to keep it interesting (such as the pork toast on the excellent mixed starter platter). We would definitely be happy to eat here again!

The food here is really good and tastes authentic, and the service was great. Thank you for accommodating our party of 8 people!

I was here once, and was the worst experience I’ve ever had. A male (owner) was very disrespectful towards me and my family and the rice was awfully dry. I asked for my rice to be re-made and the male basically ignored me and took about 30 minutes for me to get a different bowl of rice which was the complete same. I asked for a glass of wine and received a dirty wine glass with a lipstick stain on it. I don’t recommend, the service is horrible and slow and inconvenient towards people.

Fantastic food we will be back on our next visit couldn't fault any of it we had set menu B at £24 each.. prawns were so delicious.

Just moved into the area a couple of months ago. We were going to Skipton for the day and checked out Tripadvisor reviews for somewhere to have lunch. We decided to try the Thai Basil. We loved the two course special lunch menu. The man who served us was first class ,polite and easy going. The food was most enjoyable and we will be back. A relaxed and friendly environment.

Lovely food. The set menu was delicious and large portions. The staff were very polite and friendly. Would highly recommend!

Thai Basil is the best restaurant in Skipton, which we have frequented regularly since it first opened in 2011. We have always been made to feel very welcome by the Thai family who run the restaurant. The food has always been excellent and the staff attentive and caring, we felt "looked after", more often than not being treated to a free dessert, by lovely Pat and her husband. Last year, Pat and her husband moved to the Kings at Clitheroe, and friends of theirs took over the running of Thai Basil in Skipton. I have submitted previous excellent 5 star reviews of Thai Basil, on this occasion I have given the restaurant 3 stars for one reason only, being told we had to vacate our table in 5/10 minutes, immediately after our plates had been cleared. I had booked our table (for 6 for a birthday celebration) three weeks in advance, for 6.30pm Saturday. At the time of booking there were two other bookings, one for 6.00 and one for either 7 or 7.30. I made the booking in person, when dining there one lunchtime. At no time was I told there would be a time limit on our stay, not when booking, not on arrival, or by telephone before arriving. We arrived on time at 6.30. our starters arrived about 7.00, and our mains probably towards 7.30. At 8.05, when still finishing our drinks, the young waitress came to our table and said we would need to leave in 5/10 minutes. 90 minutes is not very long for a party of 6 to have a celebratory meal. I complained and was told by the young server that she did not want to tell us to leave but had been told by the more senior server that she had to. I then spoke to the more regular server and complained , he did not apologise or explain. I told him (with whom I had made the booking in person) we would leave when we were ready, as at no point had we been told our booking was time limited. It was clear that they had overbooked, to accommodate a party of 16. Our table must have been booked out again at 8pm for diners who were waiting in the entrance hall. I was very disappointed by our experience. and was tempted to remove the optional service charge which is now automatically added to your billI but didn't as the food and service had been good. I know this would not have happened if Pat and her husband were still in charge. It spoiled what should have been an excellent night out.

Good service ,food was very good, We had the wings and pork toast for starters , Then had the duck on crispy noodles , And we had had the classic Thai green curry, It was all delicious, would recommend .

Ordered a familtake away. The food was authentic and tasty. I would definitely recommend this restaurant. Next time we'll eat in.

We (group of six)visited Basil Thai on 2/3/23 and we couldn’t fault anything. The meal was absolutely amazing and the staff were so friendly and attentive. Thank you the food was delicious, we will be back when in Skipton next time

I am working a contract in Skipton, Yorkshire and have been fortunate to have visited and eaten in Thai Basil 3 times over past two weeks. The staff, the food and the restaurant is absolutely superb. The food is always high quality, the staff are attentive and friendly and I intend to use the restaurant more over the next 2 months.

Been here a few times over the years and always enjoyed the restaurant. So I was looking forward to a nice dining experience. The first issue was being told that they didn’t have any no alcohol beer, what’s the problem stocking these ? I ordered a chicken stir fry , what a disappointment, chicken and quite chunky vegetables sat in a pool of very salty, watery soy/fish sauce, non of the lovely aromatic flavours of Thai cuisine. Not at all enjoyable. When the waitress collected our unfinished plates, she asked if all was ok , we informed her of our disappointment and she said she would let the chef know, adding that he was new ???? We paid and left. Shame, it used to be so good.

Visited with work colleagues and had a lovely evening. Food was tasty and flavoursome, service was good and at a reasonable price. Would return.

We visited Skipton for the first time over October half term and booked Thai basil for our second night. So glad we did, the food was very tasty and the staff very friendly, it's a lovely, cosy place to eat - only wish we had...

Was visiting Skipton and had never been before. Wanted Thai food and picked this up on the internet. Had good reviews and we weren’t disappointed. The food and service was excellent. Recommended

First time visit. Food was amazing, fresh and flavoursome. Lovely atmosphere and good service. Can highly recommend. Good value for money.

Our friends who are locals took us here for a Saturday evening dinner.This is a small restaurant and feels intimate as so few tables. Service was excellent. I’m a big fan of Thai food and the flavours were fresh and everything was delicious. Our friends...

A fabulous selection of food for lunch at an amazing price. We ate starters and mains including our preferences and heat selection. We were wowed by the food and service here Highly recommended you must try this fab place . Loved it

Fantastic food , fabulous service. Very reasonably priced. Best Thai food I’ve had in a long time. Quirky restaurant, it feels a little like you’re in someone’s front room. Toilets are immaculately clean. Definitely recommend

The menu was varied and the food quality was excellent. Ribs, chicken satay, steamed bass and chicken pad Thai. Good service and very good value. Highly recommended

We just turned up at this restaurant tonight (a Sunday) and the most lovely young man welcomed us and put two tables together four our family of five. We ordered a sharer starter which was beautiful and then two curries, two pad Thai and two...

Superb - the food was exceptional and the service too. It was a really busy night but we still got brilliant service with a smile. The food was freshly cooked, lots of choice. Would definitely recommend

This was my first time to Thai Basil. I was eating here for my leaving meal with Yorkshire based colleagues. The food was served quickly and was very tasty. The portion sizes were big and well presented. With thai being my favourite, my expectations are...

Thai is my favourite cuisine so I was delighted to find one about 30 mins drive away. Thai Basil is pretty central, if you are driving and eating after 6pm the car park just behind is free. The restaurant was almost full which is always...

By far the best Thai meal I have ever had. We popped for a takeaway and it was ready in five minutes, absolutely delicious

This is my go too restaurant when family come to visit! Lovely staff and yummy food! Never disappoints

We booked Thai Basil for the Saturday evening of Easter weekend and had a really nice meal. The restaurant itself is a little away from others in the main centre of Skipton and is very small, but is cosy and has a lovely ambience. The...

Amazing food, super generous portions for a very reasonable price with wonderful staff. What more could you ask for. Fully recommended, however very popular with advanced booking recommended

The food is excellent - well balanced flavours - and the young staff are very courteous and efficient. We just felt like having Thai and it hit the spot. The entree platter was a bit bland but the mains we had were fab.

Had a take away from here after a long journey, so good we had a meal from here the following day too!! Lovely friendly staff, clean restaurant and food was delicious, fragrant and fresh.

I had looked fwd to this group visit ..however the staff acted differently..we were told 10% service charge was compulsory for each diner..the choices were restricted however other diners there got more for there money..only to order ice cream if dessert was needed and no...

5 of us went and had a great meal. Service was efficient and staff were friendly. Lovely Thai food, everything was fresh! Good value, Will defo be back!

Four of us had a delicious meal! My husband had the Pad Thai a couple of us had the stir fry and my sister had the lamb shank curry. All tasted amazing! Staff were very friendly and efficient. Can't wait to try again!

Birthday meal with no real plans, but the number of recommendations that came up from locals during the day was amazing. Service was excellent, two sea bass dishes were superb and served timely. Will be back

We are visiting Skipton on holiday - we both love Thai food so tried here tonight - fabulous vegetarian/vegan range. A warm welcome from friendly and accommodating staff, wonderful atmosphere and the food was out of this world. A really romantic and authentic Thai dining...

Very good food and flavours, best Thai I've had in a long time. Reasonable price, good service, will definitely be back!

We popped in to the Thai Basil one evening. The lady greeted us and was very welcoming. If you visit during the week they only accept cash that was a slight down. The seating area was simple and clean with simple Thai decoration. We had...

Visited with group of friends - pre booked and we were given a large airy room upstairs. The food was first class, all dishes delivered together, and service throughout excellent.

Absolutely delicious. Set meal was wonderful. We shared a set meal for 2 with friends and thoroughly enjoyed the mixed starters and main courses.

Excellent thai food - dishes were bursting with flavour. Staff were very friendly. Will definitely be visiting again !

My wife and I went to the Thai basil recently whist on a walking holiday based in Skipton. It was only an average experience. My wife ordered a Thai Green Curry which was more like soup with a few vegetables thrown in, and I ordered...

Just been and the food was so good .. Even better than before and that was good .. different menu and slightly smaller but wow .. Best Thai ever ..

Have meant to have a meal here for a few years now and finally decided to give it a try. Nice informal and intimate dining room with limited number of tables, very friendly, polite and efficient Thai waitress. Ordered a Chang Thai beer and large...

Really friendly staff and really efficient service. Mixed starters for two were so good. Panang curry for mains, probably the best I've had! The other main we had was Yellow Curry, again lovely. If we're back in the area will definitely be returning.

Nicely prepared flavoursome food - in healthy size portions too. Cheerful staff and a bright setting makes it even better.

Called in without booking but quickly seated after being told cash only. A bizarre set up - basically 8 tables in a living room. Not posh but cosy. Red wine excellent and a very good price. Food delicious: chicken satay, pad Thai, red Thai curry....

Great Thai food, as good as any ive had here in the UK or in Thailand. Owners are friendly and prices are good.

Ok, so an interesting visit. As we entered we were asked if we could pay cash only? We did manage to persuade them to allow us to pay by card. So, the food is very tasty and well presented. The setting appears to be someone's...

This was our first time at the restaurant and we had a lovely meal. The menu is comprehensive and easy to understand. The restaurant is cosy and inviting and the tables were not too close together which was good as we didn't feel we were...

We arrived at the Railway pub first had a few gins then walked to the restaurant The welcome was very friendly and the staff are very helpful The food was amazing and different such a good choice remand the prawn and onion ring starter what...

Good service good food. Very reasonable price.Didnt book but they accommodated us and cannot fault it. 2 beers 2 set meals and bottle of fizz. 60 quid.. Lovely

Lucky to get a table as it was reserved later in the evening. All the dishes were very flavoursome and we will return

I looked at the reviews for this restaurant as I love Thai food and because we were down to Skipton for the market for a couple of days we gave it ago the first thing was it was to cold inside and I must admit...

We visited this restaurant for the first time on Saturday lunchtime. We received a warm welcome, great service and amazing food. We chose the thai fishcakes and king prawns for starters. For mains we had the chicken red curry and the pork stir fry with...

We hadn’t booked but it was early evening, fabulous warm welcome, great service, extensive menu. Everything about our visit was fabulous the food was absolutely outstanding, four of us dined and we were all delighted with our meals. Would visit Skipton again purely to experience...

Really tasty well priced menu. Super service. Authentic Thai food - just like the delicious dishes we ate in Thailand last year. Quite quiet - nice for couples.

Visited here for the first time and turned up in spec. So glad we did as fab service and really great food at a good price. We had a set meal and loved it. We will be back soon.

We strolled down to this restaurant looking for a place to eat on a Sunday night. It seems to be in a converted house which has a small dining room for about 30 or so covers. The environment was pleasant and the tables weren’t too...

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We were staying in Skipton for two nights and decided to dine.

We found this hidden away Thai restaurant quite by chance last Sunday night and are we glad we did!

Great tasting food, both fragrant and perfectly spiced. Friendly service and great value for money. Highly recommended.

I can’t fault this little restaurant . The ambience was good , the food was good , the service was good . I would certainly recommend this place but I would reserve a table because this place is very busy ! Unfortunately we were only here one night or we would have returned for seconds ! Lovely food and reasonably priced .

The food, service and staff could not be faulted, excellent alround, will visit again when next in Skipton

We went this evening to celebrate my wife’s birthday. Greeted with bigs smiles and the offer to choose our own table. We chose to sit in the bay window. After our drinks arrived, our menu options were taken, we opted for the menu for two at £18.50.

Site says open til 10pm yet at 9pm they tell you they will only pack for a takeaway. When our party decided not to order waitress changed her mind and asked us to take a seat. No ventilation so a hot summers day will leave u sweating buckets in the stuffy room. Coke ordered was flat. Prawn crackers came as though a the left overs had been scraped together and no dip. We politely asked for some dip and had watered down dip brought in with added sugar. Waitress was rushing us along the whole time. Felt like a burden rather than a customer. Very disappointed.

We were staying in Skipton for one night only and, as we love Thai food, I rang up on the day to book a table. They were very busy but managed to accommodate our table for 2.

The Thai was spot on! I loved every bit of it. I recommend 'Thai Basil' to my friends and to other travellers. The staff where nice and welcoming Thai was amazing! The atmosphere was Warming. I felt a connection with the people around me like i knew them which made me happy

2nd visit in 2 months and as the first time everything was spot on! Could becoming a regular at this rate. Managed to fit us in late booking on a Saturday evening. Excellent food and friendly and welcoming staff. Will be back again next month.

its like being sat in a stranger living room, with no atmosphere and sat shoulder to shoulder with the tables next to you.

We arrived at Thai basil around 8pm. Upon walking in I felt like I was in someone’s house. No atmosphere at all and food very very average. Mixed started to begin with which was very OK and I had a Thai green curry for my main which came with a side salad? Thai curry quite tasteless and full of cucumber and other strange veg I have never encountered in a curry? I am unsure of why. Coke was very flat. Had to ask for the bill on 2 separate occasions and the table next to us was given sweets with their bill and we had no such luxury and they were given there bill straight away when requested. Unfortunately we are used to @SUDAThaiPoulton which has set the bar exceptionally high.

The food here is delicious and the staff really friendly. Slightly obsessed with this place and visit probably once a week. Can’t think of a single fault. Would defiantly recommend the shared starter, red curry & Penang. Best Thai for miles :)

Enjoyed another amazing meal at Thai Basil! We love Skipton and we have to come here every time we com cause it’s so amazing! The staff are lovely and the food is amazing! Definitely get the Thai fish cakes and the beef massamam! 🍛💃🏼

Me and Sam love Thai food so whilst in Skipton for a weekend I put a search in trip advisor .and we found Thai basil.it was one of the best Thai meals we've had .in the past I've found some Thai restraunts to be a bit average.thai basil was far from average proper authentic Thai food .it was so enjoyable and the staff where bang on .it was a delight

Been going here for a few years now and never had a bad meal. Food is consistently good and cooked from fresh While the room can sometimes lack a bit of atmosphere if you like nice Thai food at a reasonable price would highly recommend

The food is absolutely lovely.you can tell it's freshly made and the dishes are bursting with flavour. The only down fall is the potion sizes, for the price they are a bit poor but all in all definitely can't fault the food and presentaion. Very impressed.

A great selection of really tasty, beautifully presented Thai food. Lovely atmosphere. Advise you book, as it is a busy restaurant. Made to feel really welcome.

Located in a wonderful old terraced property on Cavendish Street in Skipton, this is like having fantastic food from the Orient in your own home. The food is excellent, very good value and the staff imbue the wonderful gentleness and attention of the Thai people.

Quite a pleasing, almost intimate environment, well decorated and clean - probably only seating a maximum of 20 or so. We were served by a very pleasant and competent young English girl. The Management and Kitchen Staff were Thai. Drinks and crackers arrived soon enough with Menus. Orders were taken and the ensuing service timing was comfortable. The meals were pleasant enough without being exceptional. We would visit again.

The food was nice, just a shame really cause the young people attending our table were great but the lady with the green dress seemed to get angry with them for nothing even though she was doing nothing throughout the night which kind of ruined the dining experience to be honest

Really comfy setting, staff were lovely and the food did not disappoint it was delicious and good value for money

Visited with family on a Wednesday eve, hadn’t booked but was seated straight away. Food was great and so was service! Would definitely reccomend!

Although it does feel like you're sitting in someone's front room, the food is lovely and reasonably priced. The service at times leaves a little to be desired in terms of politeness, not speed, but overall it's a definite recommendation!

Very good food. Clean friendly enviroment. Staff were friendly and pleasant. The only downside were the drinks are quite expensive

Having spent many happy holidays in Thailand we were hopeful of an authentic Thai experience. We found the food to be very tasty although adapted to western tastes. A selection of starters arrived, the som tam and ribs were particularly good. I chose the chefs special Jungle curry (which I have eaten many times before) for my main course but this was not to my liking, or anyone else’s in my family.

My partner threw up as he left and all the way back to the car as the food was soooo greasy and salty!!! Booked in for a special birthday dinner! First of all the menus were filthy!! Pages stuck together - things crossed off with...

Popped in after a very busy day on canal. We were a group of 5 ladies with all sorts of dietary requirements which were all catered for here. (Vegan, vegetarian, cautious and fuss pot.)

For something different, we chose this close to our hotel. Not very busy, but cosey decor and friendly service. Food was fresh and well prepared. Decent asian cuisine and service was fairly quite.

On way back from the dales called here as rated best in Skipton. We eat Thai food very regular & love Thai food.

Lovely old building. But I was sat near the door leading to the hall and it was cold. The waiter took 1 drinks order all night, they had the opportunity to sell so much more from their drinks list. Had to ask for knife for the starter and knife and fork for main.

Thai Basil is quite a treat. The food is always fresh and tastes fantastic. We had it last for Valentine's Day and it was the best choice.

After our first visit we knew that we would return. Our second visit was just as good! Delicious authentic food... like being back in Thailand. Great food, great service and very consistent... we will be back :) thank you :)

I can't believe I've been driving from Silsden to Otley to get my hands on a decent authentic Thai for the last year when one was available from here in skipton.