March 2005 A Cozy Thai Spot in Chantilly Few Thai restaurants can boast a chef with the credentials of Nongkran Daks, who ran a restaurant in Thailand, cooked in Laos, Beijing, and Honolulu, and ...

Claim to fame: Thai Basil serves authentic Thai food, with many patrons surprised at the different taste the restaurant offers, Kongkru said. The curry is cooked for hours and chicken is marinated ...

For the soup and salad courses, we discovered the tom yum soup with chicken ($4) and chicken laab salad ($8) were good but not great. A Thai restaurant staple, the tom yum's faintly orange-hued ...

thaibasilrestaurant.com Thai Basil Restaurant has earned and maintained its reputation as BEST THAI in Sacramento every year since: 2001 by Sacramento Magazine and Sacramento News & Review.

(Thinkstock) But Italian sweet basil is just one of more than 100 basil varieties. The second most likely variety to pop up in recipes — or menu descriptions — is Thai basil.