I love, love & love this place!! Â I do hope they make it here in Moraga. Â I think it's the best Asian restaurant here. Â I like the fact that they offer both Chinese & Vietnamese foods. Â I prefer Chinese.
I love the fried rice, Ma Pa Tufu, Grilled Pork Chops, Chinese Broccoli, Garlic Noodles with Shrimp, Veggie Spring Rolls, Orange Chicken and I can go on & on.
What I enjoy the most is how fresh the food is. Â Their veggies are fresh & crisp & not tough. Â
The service is great & they are so anxious to please their Customers (what an idea!). Â The place is clean & just so enjoyable to dine. Â
I'm there twice a week!
Have eaten here four times now, and have found both the Chinese and Vietnamese dishes to be very good, well prepared from fresh ingredients. Â Of the two cuisines, I think the Vietnamese food is better, but that could just be matter of personal taste. Â The service can be chaotic, but the earnest desire of the servers to please does a lot to mitigate that one fault.
Review Source:A little bit on the pricey side, but there really aren't many options in Lamorinda for Asian food. Â This place did very well in my humble opinion. Â Came with my mom and we got the Shrimp and Egg Chow Fun and Filet Mignon cubes. Â All in all pretty good in taste! Â I hope this place sticks around for awhile because it's nice to know there is an option like this when hunger rolls around!
Review Source:Incredibly fresh ingredients, always very flavorful and tasty, impressive variety of both Chinese and Vietnamese dishes, very friendly family run place. Definitely a great local business run by family making a shot at the American Dream--and serving excellent food to the community. Well worth supporting and enjoying!
Review Source:I think we have discovered a winner of an Asian restaurant right here in Moraga...Basil Asian Restaurant. It has a very interesting menu, with a Chinese section, a Vietnamese section and a little Thai thrown in for good measure. We ordered from each section. We did mess up a bit because each menu item is numbered and the Vietnamese dishes are preceded by the letter "V". We didn't understand this so were very surprised (pleasantly I might add) when our waiter brought several dishes that we had only ordered by number forgetting the "V". We sampled the WonTon soup, fried rice, Sesame Beef, Chow Fun noodles with beef and onion, Spicy Scallops with Egg Plant and our most favorite dish, Steamed filet of Sole with ginger sauce. All food was tasty, served hot from the kitchen and very delicious. Prices were good for this quality of food and service. At the end f our meal the Chef/owner came out to talk to us to see how we enjoyed our meal. Very nice people, clean restaurant, good food. I recommend you try it...you'll like it.
Review Source:Excellent surprize! Â We received a menu in the mail, and decided to try it last Saturday. Â We were happily surprized to see they have a huge Vietnamese menu...as well as Chinese. Â We decided to go with the Vietnamese and everything we ordered was great! Â Though we ordered too much food and the waiter, who didn't speak much english, didn't say anything.
Service is a bit awkward. Â We ordered a crepe (Banh Xeo) as an appetizer, but it came almost at the end of our dinner. Â In any case, it was fabulous. Â Basil eggplant with onion was excellent, as was the Pan-fried catfish...which he called "tempura catfish" when he brought it. Â I was surprized and might not have ordered it, but it was the best tempura fish I've ever had.
My husband had a BBQ'd pork dish which was also very good.
We're definitely going back!
We finally got around to trying this spot again, since the last ownership was abysmal. Take it from me, do not judge the current ownership by the last one! Â We ordered the shrimp chow mien, sweet and sour chicken and mixed vegetables....and found all to be quite good. Â Service was extremely polite and efficient....they clearly are striving to over-please in an attempt to shed the reputation of the last ownership. Â I suspect some people are reviewing this ownership based on their experience with the last one, since I see two extremes in reviews....either love or hate. Â This doesn't make sense, since the service and food are simply too good for a one or two star review.
Review Source:I work nearby and have been here three times now. All three times I've ordered the BBQ Pork Chow Mein & it's delicious-obviously. I went recently for lunch with my husband and I tried his Lemon Chicken Fried Rice and it was really good! We also ordered some Chinese Potstickers and they were very tasty! All three times I've been here, it was during lunchtime and it was never crowded, very casual. Service is nothing spectacular but I prefer not being bothered. They refilled my water glass without having to ask so I'd say that's pretty good! Oh, and they also give you some yummy soup before your meal.
Review Source:I so had high hopes for this place. Â Nice people and I so want some authentic Vietnamese food here but all I got was confused food. Â The menu is huge half Chinese half Vietnamese but when I ordered Eggplant Curry it tasted like Indian Food. Â I guess I will have to stick with the lil Noodle shop across the way and got to Walnut Creek and Oakland for the real deal. Â BUT if you are not picky about your Asian cuisine like me you will like it and its kid friendly.
Review Source:I tried once for take out - had the Vietnamese vermicelli with BBQ Beef and Imperial Rolls. Â It was serviceable, but nothing special. The second time we got a table and it was just awful. Â I ordered the ground chicken with mint and chile - when it came the chicken was in chunks and I returned it - pointing out that the menu described it as made with the traditional ground chicken. Â It came back and was totally devoid of the chiles - totally bland. Â I asked for the traditional Vietnamese chili paste condiment to give it some flavor and they didn't know what I was talking about. Â My daughter had the vermicelli with BBQ Beef and Imperial Rolls, I noticed she was not eating the beef, so I tasted it and it has a strong chemical taste - like a cleaner or solvent. Â It was inedible. Â The Vietnamese crepe appetizer eventually came mid-meal, and was so oily it was also inedible. I wanted to like this place as Lamorinda has so many bad-to-mediocre Chinese restaurant, that a decent Vietnamese place would be a breath of fresh air. Â If you want to try this place, try it soon, I'm sure it will be out of business soon.
Review Source:I'm giving this restaurant four stars for its Vietnamese food, which may even deserve five stars because it's really excellent, especially their barbecue pork and vermicelli noodles, which I've had several times. Â
Unfortunately, the Chinese food (which comprises half of the menu) is very bland and underspiced. Â I'd only give this part of the menu two stars.
This place has not been lucky  since Manderin Flowers sold out in 2000(?).  I keep hoping that something better, or just as good will someday replace it.  I'm still waiting.
I will say that Basil may not be the one, but I think it''s better than most of the other Chinese resturants around the local area. Â Yes, I've been to all of them. Â I don't like any one of them, but I like the combination of the Vietnam & Chinese blends. that Basil offers. Â it gives me a choice of what I'd like to eat. Â No, it's not great, but it is tasty, and better than any thing else around this town. Â
The place is clean, bright, and inviting. Â The people that work here are friendly & anxious to make this a pleasant dining experience for their customers. Â That is a plus.
Food is fresh. Â I like their Pork Fried Rice, Ma Po Tofu, Â string beans, Bhan-Mi & Vietnamese soups. Â
I hope they only get better over time. Â Try them!
Oh boy...does the building itself have a curse? This is the third restarant that has opened at this place and it has remained consistently sub-par. I tried this place on a rousing recommendation by a couple I know...big mistake. The bhan-mi...c'mon, it was basically a pork and cilantro sandwich...where's the daikon and other ingredients that make a good bahn-mi. The neither hot nor sour soup was just bland as well as the chow mein. I also ordered the pad-thai which aain was bland and was dry with undercooked noodles. I know cooks have their bad days, but this place has only been here few months and they're already cooking like this. Maybe I should have tried the place when it first opened. No offense but, what kind of palet would one have to give this place 5 stars when the most basic Asian dishes are made this way.
Review Source:Moraga is in desperate need of culinary diversity, and Basil is a welcome addition. I think most of the negative reviews here have been written by people who ordered Chinese food rather than the Vietnamese food, which is their specialty. There are indeed plenty of other Chinese restaurants, so why not focus on what makes Basil unique: the stellar Vietnamese cuisine. Â This isn't some dull Pho restaurant....they have a very extensive menu that is surprisingly good.
Highlights include the Ginger Chicken (I forget what the dish is actually called, but it is delicious). Â The Vietnamese Crepes appetizer is fantastic. It is a dish that is fairly hard to find, and I was thrilled that Basil had it. Â We also really enjoyed the lemongrass beef with vermicelli noodles.
Give this restaurant a chance and ignore the Debbie Downers who seem to assume this is just a regular Chinese restaurant.
We have tried take out from this restaurant twice and won't go back.
First time we had a selection of entrees, but the food was bland and had no flavor, even the scechuan items. Â Food was rather non-descript and not worth the gas.
On that note ...
out of desperation my wife went back a second time and most of that food is still in our fridge, waiting to be recycled. Â I did eat a half portion of the seafood pho and am regretting it, having spent a better part of the evening dealing with something that the hot sauce did not neutralize and that attacked my system.
Too bad there is no good pho in Lamorinda.
Basil Asian, inspite of it's name, provided no basil or sprouts with its pho!
I am being generous with 2 stars and only gave it 2 because my son liked the mongolian beef.
First of all I am thrilled that the previous restaurant went out of business. After I witnessed the cook going to the bathroom in the parking lot, I never returned. I was really hoping another Asian restaurant wouldn't replace it because we have too many in this tiny town anyway. My favorite is China Moon and the Thai place is very good. Now back to this restaurant. I really fought not to patronize it. My husband talked me into  ordering to go, saying we needed to give it a try. I have a thing for too many outdoor signs, hand written signs, uncut grass and unkept yards (their grass is dying) and dirty windows. Dirty windows means dirty interior. I was right. There is a handmade sign that looks like a 3rd grader wrote it  on the door saying welcome with green arrows pointing to only use one door. On the waiting bench are piles of magazines. It looks like my nail salon. I was pleased to see they serve Vietnamese food so I ordered the Thai rolls with shrimp. The dipping sauce was terrible and barely a shrimp to be found. I ordered the chicken in curry and coconut sauce over rice that I have loved at other places and they either gave me the wrong thing, or I was wrong in what I ordered. Whatever it was, it was tasteless and actually had a bad smell to it. Down the drain that went. The garlic noodles were overcooked and the vegetable chow mein had one piece of broccoli and one piece of cabbage. The Chinese menu items were okay. The orange chicken wasn't bad.
I will not return and wish a Mexican place would replace this restaurant. From the empty restaurant each night as I drive by, it looks like I might get my wish.
We had a bowl of pho and a shrimp chow mein. The pho broth was rich with light, balanced spice, and it ran on the sweet side. The portion size was smallish. I normally have pho with hot sauce and hoisin sauce but the flavor was fine without them. The chow mein had a nice chewy texture, and the shrimp was fresh, though the dish could have used more vegetables for sensory appeal. The portion size was largish but it didn't last long. The service was attentive, but they haven't found their groove yet.
Review Source:I work in Berkeley and am spoiled by the number of Asian and Asian-fusion restaurants there. So glad to have Basil Asian Restaurant in Moraga to round out what was previously a very short list in the neighborhood. Tried take-out for the first time tonight and will definitely be visiting again. Don't judge the menu, I have a toddler.
Vietnamese spring rolls - the noodle wrap, veggies, shrimp, and mint were all incredibly fresh. Yum! Dipping sauce on the sweeter side and wasn't my favorite, but the roll was awesome with soy sauce.
Beef & Green Beans - so glad they leave the veggies al dente for a satisfying crunch.
Chicken Chow Fun - my favorite at any Asian restaurant that offers it. Theirs didn't disappoint.
Portions are extremely generous and the prices very reasonable. Can't wait to try the Pho and Bun dishes. Also noticed Pad Thai (noodles, noodles and more noodles for me). They offer a lunch special 7 days/week.
We finally checked out this new place in town. Â Fresh ingredients, lots of bright colors with vegetables in kung pao chicken. Â Huge pho bowl with excellent broth.
Small little scoops of ice cream with fortune cookie a nice complementary touch.
Service was outstanding, perhaps too much time on their hands to serve us...but very welcoming.
Clean, clean, clean and open airy restaurant room.
Go There!
I have been here a couple of times and each time was a great experience. Â We have tried the Chinese and Vietnamese food and both were great, flavorful and very fresh. Â Everything was cooked perfectly. Â Service is very prompt and accommodating. Â There is also a wide selection of items on the menu. Â
Definitely would recommend this restaurant. Â They definitely need more business.
When you have 3 hungry kids and your trapped in the burbs and treking to Oakland seems too difficult this place hit the spot. We liked the fact that it is family owned and service is friendly. Love the fact that they do Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai. We only ate the Chinese and Vietnamese dishes. I had a craving for fish with black bean sauce and green beans and they made it for us! The food was good (given that we are eating in Moraga). I will definately return or do take out from Basi Asian.
Review Source:This restaurant replaces the 'Red Chopstick' which went out of business. Â Some minor interior renovations have been done which give a more open feel. Â The food was good. Each dish had a crisp clear taste. Portion size on the small side. Has a Vietnamese slant. Â Service was ok but started to slow down as more customers arrived as it appeared that there was only one waitress working. Over all average for an Asian restaurant. Â No WOW factor.
Review Source:Tasty, fresh and not cooked to death. Â A complimentary egg roll was light and crisp. Â Sizzling rice soup was likewise light with fresh lettuce in the broth. Â The main courses were each delicious: we had no leftovers to take home. Â We especially liked the house spicy eggplant with chicken.
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