Salut, everyone! Mademoiselle Nouvelle Orleans here, giving you the most reliable restaurant reviews and honest opinions on the food. Now it happened that Madame La Bouffe and I had dinner at a Thai restaurant a day ago, so if any of you folks reading this love Thai cuisine and want to go somewhere good for an Asian dinner, listen up! We went to a nice restaurant called The Basil Leaf, on Carrolton Avenue. Madame La Bouffe and I were led to a large table in the front of the restaurant, presented with goblets of ice water and Thai beer, and then served our meal.
First, we each had an order of fried spring rolls. I can tell you, I was in fry-o-later heaven! The outside was so crunchy, crispy, flaky, and buttery, and the filling was absolutely sublime. It was a mixture of glass noodles, shrimp, onions, carrots, and spices and it was sliced very attractively on the bias, so it was pretty to look at, too! Then we shared some spicy shrimp soup, fried rice, and calamari and glass noodle salad. The soup was great, as was the fried rice, but the calamari was just "okay." It was a little on the mushy side, and not cooked so well, but the noodles and everything else in the salad was just FAB.
The waitstaff was very pleasant and cheery, so I felt nice and comfortable. The paintings on the walls of a tropical island and the holy man wearing a pointed hat was there too, so it had very peaceful and quiet atmosphere.
So it was a pretty good meal, not over the top, but still very delicious. It would be a fine place to hold your next Asian dinner. Bon appetit!
