Pineapple Village - Gilroy

Staff: super nice. Food over priced, tasted decent but waaaay too oily! Look at this pic! Pooling oil in the garlic eggplant dish. Each mouthful was hard as excess oil exploded throughout my mouth. Gagging but the flavor was pretty good and I was craving it. In cities (where I live) I never have to add soy sauce; here I did. Needed that salty flavor push. Or was the OIL just filling down all flavor lol. Reviews saying this is the best place (or the like) in the Bay Area are either paid reviews or they’re just crackers Also price. A full sized square to go container was $17! It’s just a veritable, eggplant, which costs pennies each! How? This dish is on every Thai restaurant menu. It’s called Thai basil eggplant. For the unsuspecting locals they clearly dull it down, omitting the basil so it’s cheaper easier for them, and there’s no protein! There’s always a protein in this dish! Tofu or chicken, a couple bucks more for beef or shrimp. STANDARD. So I added chicken and with a $2 rice it was $22. Gulp. It’s a mini mall in a small town, they’re not paying urban rents! I also ran out of chicken at 1 3 of the meal..not nearly enough, and I paid extra for it : Dunno… it was packed at 7pm on a Friday, these guys are making bank. Other urban Thai places who pay double or triple the rent, serving this dish at 65% of this portion size, WITH chicken and basil and a beautiful flavor, are running a good business so this one is simply greedy and over priced.

Another of my favorite places in town, their food is so flavorful and the staff is super friendly. If you're in town stop by if you're looking for a Thai restaurant you won't regret it.

So disappointed. My first time! I am new to Gilroy... No main dish after a sufficient amount of time. If your 420 people go there...

Love this place, huge portions and great service, great beer on tap and the mango momo is on point and the pineapple rice is always a crowd please!

Ambiance is great but the food is average. Portion size is generous for the price but the food lacked taste compared to other Asian restaurants, e.g. There was not a single pineapple in a pineapple fried rice. Also eating with guilt of cross contamination with the non veg food didn't help either. Vegans/Vegetarians should try to avoid the place since there is no vegan-labeled items/menu and the taste was umami which means it may have been cooked in the same pan where they cook sea food and meat