Thai Spice Los Gatos

I did not eat here, but my family enjoyed their meal immensely. I would like to give a special shout out to the servers who alerted me when they discovered the dish I ordered contained gluten. They literally prevented a disaster! so many restaurants are not aware. Kudos to Thai Spice. Thank you!

Thai Spice is a small casual restaurant with a large menu of the usual Thai and a few Chinese dishes. My wife and I live nearby and have gone there occasionally over the years for dine-in and take-out meals. The food has usually been ok but the table service has been erratic. Prices have always been reasonable at least by Los Gatos standards given the portion sizes. In our opinion, it’s an average neighborhood place but we wouldn’t go out of our way to dine there. Our latest meal was a takeout order of BBQ chicken $13.95 with jasmine rice $2.50 and a side of 3 veggie egg rolls $9.95 . The boneless, skinless chicken pieces were marinated in a very mild sauce and then grilled. The chicken was tender but the sauce was a bit too sticky-sweet. We both liked the egg rolls, which were perfectly crispy on the outside and tender inside. One meal was plenty of food for both of us. The place was empty and tables in the main dining room hadn’t been set when I picked up my order at 6pm on a Friday, which is unusual for a downtown Los Gatos restaurant. There is no outdoor seating. It was reassuring to see that the staff wore latex gloves and masks. But we were concerned when we noticed afterwards that the restaurant was rated poorly in its most recent health department inspection March 8, 2022 . A total of seven health code violations were recorded including unclean equipment and utensils, inadequate knowledge of food management, and unapproved thawing of frozen food. Yuck! I wish we checked before ordering because I’m sure we would’ve avoided the place based on that score. If you’re interested, there’s a handy link to health department reports in the Yelp reviews for many restaurants. My rating of average should probably be lower after reading the health department report, but their previous reports have been good so this one may just be an anomaly.

Soup Tom Yum 5 star Spicy Thai Fried Rice 5 star(not spicy) SizzlingTofu with peanut sauce: 3/5 way too oily Prawns curry with pineapple 5 star Service here is excellent Portions are good. No outdoor dining.

Pretty disappointing. The pic on their site and/or Google looks like a normal classic Pad Thai but what they serve is nothing like that. It was very dry, especially without fine-sliced carrots, cabbage and very little sprouts (all are in their pic). I also just didn’t taste the great flavors of a Pad Thai, the entire dish was a bright yellow? I wouldn’t recommend at least this dish here.

Angel wings, Green papaya salads, Seafood pot soup are great! White rice cooked in a proper way, not too soft or too hard. The chief special we ordered, Asparagus mix vegetables with beef is a bit disappointed…… One of the asparagus skin is too old for chewing the beef meat is not tender enough to enjoy Overall, it is still delicious! If you like spicy, sweet sour, it is not a bad choice to visit!