Basil Box

What Reddit says

A Toronto fast-casual Thai bowl chain in the Chipotle style. Lemongrass chicken bowls get the most praise, and it's seen as healthy and filling. Critics call the food mediocre and dry compared with other Southeast Asian options.

Paraphrased from the comments below.

What to order

• 6.6
  Salads & Bowls#24 for salads & bowls in Toronto
  Worth trying
• Curry2 Redditors
• Pad Thai1 Redditor
• Thai Curry1 Redditor

In their words

Short excerpts, each linked to the full comment on Reddit.

• “Mediocre food in a city that has a really good selection of better south east asian cuisines.”

• “I thought it was a decent option for “Chipotle model” Asian food.”

• “are all fine and have a good amount of veg, but they feel more like healthy "fast food”

• “Some of the driest food I've ever eaten so no surprise to me”

• “I really like their lemongrass chicken bowls”

• “It's sooooo tasty, and as a gluten-free person it's a guaranteed delicious and safe meal for me.”

• “its good food, also healthy.”

• “the portions be came so small I didn't see the value in going”

• “Usually good, but after I found live bugs in my salad from them one night I refused to ever order from them again”

• “Their food was really good imo. Filling and flavorful”

• “It’s been a good option for office lunch for me.”

• “I loved Basil Box when they came to YorkU and used to eat there all the time.”