Kachy Produce

Expensive, limited and old produce, at least today…

Great fruit… the veggies were a little tired… prices very reasonable… very fresh watermelon and corn

We were driving back to the SF Bay Area and decided to stop at Kachy to pick up some fruits and veggies to take home. What an amazing spot. Plenty of produce and fruit and all at really reasonable prices. Lots of Mexican staples and we even picked up a wedge of queso fresco. I also had fun looking through the gardening area — they’ve got lots of citrus trees and other local plants for sale. So happy that we stopped here!

You cannot beat the quality and price of Kachy Produce. It’s so good that the local South Bay farmers market has become a novelty where we stroll around and take pictures and buy some of the ready to eat food, and then we drive down to Kachy to get serious about buying our produce.

Great produce and fair prices Good selection of chiles.

We have shopped at Kachy Produce several times now and feel like it has made a huge difference in our family’s food budget. Since we are a family of seven (soon to be eight) it really does matter a lot for us to find good quality foods in sizable quantities for a good price.
This weekend we bought an army’s worth of produce for our entire week’s eating pleasure and the bill was slightly less than 60 dollars. To illustrate how much one can get for this price I will share what we bought: about 5lbs of grapes, two VERY HUGE bags of oranges (each must have at least five or more pounds worth of fruit in each bag and each bag, if juiced, makes a good gallon’s worth of fresh orange juice), 6 very sizable cucumbers, 2 bunches of green onions, about 5.5lbs of zucchini, a dozen lemons, nearly 7lbs of peaches, about 3.5 pounds of Roma tomatoes, a large bunch of Kale, 2 large bunches of romaine lettuce, 2 sizable bunches of spinach, a large crate of strawberries (it had 12 green pint baskets in it), a little over 2lbs of fresh green beans, a bargain bag of about 8 pieces of corn that was at the checkout (and which I realized I couldn’t live without eating for dinner that evening), and over 1lb of onions. Honestly, that’s a lot of produce and the price is absolutely fabulous!!! We could never have gotten this much produce and this good of quality from the regular markets. Needless to say we are eating incredibly well this week and enjoying every bite!!!
They have a very large variety of produce available. I know a lot about foods and how to prepare them but even so we actually found a few things here and there that I have neither seen before nor eaten/​prepared. We found this very exciting and look forward to trying new things for every season!!!
Our family loves produce of all kinds and we try to incorporate as much as possible into our daily meals. With the prices and abundant availability of produce at Kachy I am sure I am going to be even more vigilant about finding even more unique and delicious ways to use whatever we can buy from there. We are definitely going to continue to be regular customers!!!

I came here with a group of three other girls thinking that it would be a better choice than a roadside fruit stand. Although we all bought fruit, we left unimpressed by Kachy. Some of the produce was very, very cheap (a big bag of oranges for $ 2.99, grapefruit for 20 cents each) but a lot of the produce that was advertised for very cheap were not fresh. Asparagus was advertised for 99 cents a pound, but it was limp. The lemons that were 10 cents a piece were tiny and old.
Kachy has a very good selection of Mexican grocery items and desserts. I saw pan dulce, frozen mangonadas and paletas along with standard things like pico de gallo, bottles of dulce de leche etc.

I used to go solely to LJB, however, this place is open year-​round and has other items and edibles which are reasonably priced. Also, the amazing savings on pumpkins after Oct 31 and any other seasonal produce is just too good to pass up. Savings examples include: Gilroy garlic, peppers (sometimes 10 in a bag for $ 1), Brussels sprouts, and more.
They now carry two types of long Afghan bread which is baked just down the street but is trucked and sold in San Jose stores. I saw the bread on a Friday evening and wasn’t sure if it’s super fresh so I’ll need to find out when the bread is delivered.
Although they do take credit cards, they like charges to be over $ 5 or something like that.
A big gripe is their parking lot which just seems to have one entrance/​exit. Luckily, the traffic on Monterey Road even during rush hour isn’t bad at all.
I’m glad that the Unilocal editors corrected Kachy’s address which is on Monterey Road.

Fresh produce, rock bottom prices on most everything not just loss leaders, helpful staff, credit cards welcome, by the lbs or by the case, all year round availability, open til 9pm,… novel fruits & veggies you can’t find elsewhere, & other items like home made canned goods like sauerkraut, roasted red peppers, bread n butter pickles, etc… from

Always friendly people, very helpful.
Always good prices on everything. Best part is I can walk there on nice days and walk home with little treasures for dinner.

The only thing I dont like is that its so far from where I live. I came here on my way home just to get some corn for a birthday dinner. FRESH corn on the cob was 6 ears for a DOLLAR! Try that at Safeway or Lucky’s.
We also spied seedless watermelons at $ 3 a pop. That’s phenomenally cheap! The guy who ran the place assured us that they were ALL good which I thought was BS but we just picked one at random and it was pretty sweet and juicy.
Also, I told the owner that I was looking for Loquats for a top-​secret project. He said he’d get some at the market for me.
Can’t do much better.

Kachy is an excellent low-​cost produce market.
They sell mostly what I’d call ‘first run’ produce – the standard size and perfect appearance you find in chain grocery stores. But they also have excellent deals on fruit that doesn’t quite match chain-​store standards – citrus that is just slightly small in terms of fruit per pound, or has a branch-​abrasion on the skin, asparagus bunches for a $ 1 who’s only ‘flaw’ I could find was that the stem-​diameters weren’t completely uniform between different stems in the bunch.
These are details that don’t affect flavor or nutrition, and in most cases don’t affect shelf-​life (though occasionally a skin-​nick might). Most of the ‘smaller’ citrus grades are so subtle to be indistinguishable from the usual at the table, with a few charmingly obvious exceptions (among the many clementine sizes they offer just now is one slightly larger than a ping-​pong ball that is perfect for little kids or as a garnish). But these things save you money.
As an example, it is currently May, and I guess certain varieties of citrus are in season. The price for a small-​ish pummelo? $ 0.10. Yes, you read that right – 10 for a dollar. By small-​ish, I mean the size of a huge grapefruit – just barely small enough to fit on my old proctor-​silex juicer; if I bought bigger ones elsewhere (for anywhere from $ 1.50-$ 4 *each*), I couldn’t juice them. Kachy also has small-​ish grapefruits at 3/​$ 1, where in the grocery stores grapefruits perhaps a centimeter larger in diameter are selling for $ 1 each. Their tangerines (clementines, mandarins, and others) are 3 lbs for a dollar, at the moment.
Yesterday I bought $ 6.50 worth of produce there – 6 baseball-​sized mandarin tangerines, 6 larger-​than-​softball-​sized pummelos, a standard (non-​mini) seedless watermelon, a medium sized japanese yam, and a kabocha squash.
Prices change with the seasons, so your finds may vary.
Don’t be put-​off by its old-​fashioned appearance (the building looks like it hails from the late 1950’s and the signs are all hand-​painted). If you need something healthy to cook and are on a tight budget, Kachy is the place to shop.
PS: it also gets bonus points for friendly, likeable, helpful staff.

Unbelievable prices, particularly on citrus. We stumbled upon the place en route back to San Jose from Monterey. Blood oranges (or Moroccan oranges) were $.25/​lb, small grapefruits were 8/​$ 1 I think. I left with many pounds of stuff for about $ 10. The staff was ultra friendly. Recommended.

Kachy is a hidden gem in Gilroy; you don’t pay much attention to it unless you’re a local.
From the outside, it looks like a typical non-​chain produce market: gaudy with sale signs, colorful flags, aging building. There’s never more than a handful of cars parked out in front, which is surprising considering how cheap everything is.
Watermelon, zucchini, garlic, Japanese eggplant, fresh/​dried peppers, apples, Mexican cheese, spinach, pears, random Asian veggies… Yep, you’ll find it all here. A lot of it is fresh, but depending on what you’re looking for, that’s not always the case — minus one star. Sometimes, I think of Kachy as the Ross of department stores; cheaper price tag with potentially a few flaws that won’t compromise the overall use of the product.
Today, I needed some shallots for a vinaigrette I wanted to make for dinner. ***Remembering that the last time I attempted to buy shallots, I found a pile of sad-​looking ones available at Safeway in the refrigerated section (refrigerated why???) — for a whoppin’ $ 7.99/lb! Needless to say, we consumed no shallots that day.*** They were abundantly available at Katchy for $ 1.99/lb. I had to pinch myself.
I wasn’t planning to get anything else, but I came across butternut squash, which has an uncanny ability to make me weak in the knees every time we meet. A few nicks on the skin, but for $ 1 for FOUR pounds, you really can’t go wrong.
Total damage for two hefty butternut squashes and about 6 large shallots: $ 2.53.

If your down for local SUPER FRESH produce… Kachy is for you.
We like to hit this place up before going grocery shopping at Safeway/​Nob Hill because the produce is so plentiful, ripe & extremely cheap. And the quality is great. This place is an absolute must in the summer!
FRESH: corn, tomatoes, watermelons, artichokes, potatoes, spices, etc. Once you see whats here you’ll laugh at the chain stores prices on produce.
O, & the yummy Mex coconut ice cream bars for $ 1, yes please!

One of the best produce stands (more than just that, really) you’ll find. As the other dude mentioned, the prices are insanely, insanely low, and the produce is good. Every time I go there I think, why do I ever shop anywhere else? Well, fine, there are some things you can’t get here, but for fruits & veggies & other essentials, this place is tops.
There’s not much in terms of organic, but I’m fine with that. Personally I think local is more important, and lots of the stuff here is local. Great local honey, e.g.
For me it’s farther away now that they moved to Monterey Hwy (can’t bike there anymore), but still worth the extra couple minutes.

THIS PLACE IS GREAT!
I was in Gilroy and I drove by this place and decided to go in and check out the produce prices and I was pleasantly surprised! I spent $ 17.00 on fruits and veggies and I was able to buy:
1. Medium sized watermelon
2. 1 lb bag of fresh string beans
3. 1 papaya
4. 2 mangos
5. 1 guava
6. 2 HUGE artichokes
7. 2 bags of sopa pasta
8. 1 average sized honeydew melon
9. 1 bunch of cilantro
10. 1 bag of 5 red onions
11. 4 ears of corn
12. 4 pounds of tomatillos
QUITE the deal! This would have cost me well over 30 bucks at my local store in San Jose!
The workers were really nice and pleasant to speak with. I highly recommend this place!