Coeliac Society and other info

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Greece

Food
....................Greek meals usually consist of single items. In other words, if you ask for "a tuna fillet" or "Moussaka" that's what you'll get and little else. It's usual to serve it with very little garnishment - a little lettuce, tomato and maybe a couple of potato slices - but don't expect a pile of vegetables or chips. You will usually be offered a "Greek salad". This is a bowl of salad which is usually shared amongst two or three people. It comprises lettuce, Fetta cheese, tomato, olives, cucumber and sometimes other items. Bread is almost always provided first of all but NO butter unless you specifically ask for it. Bread is normally used to mop up the olive oil left on the plate.
A favourite dish is "Gigantes" - a type of large butter bean - often enough to serve as a complete meal by itself.
............... Unfortunately, some hotel restaurants don't fully understand the requirements of Coeliac sufferers ......

www.satcure.co.uk/greece/comfort.htm

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Greece
Athens
Hellenic Coeliac Society
Contact:
Mr. P. Plessas
125 Ippokratous Street
GR-Athens 114 72, Greece
Tel: [phone] or 30/1/46/18/081



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Peter Thompson in Crete

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Good gluten-free food in Greece

Posted by Charlotte, Oxford on 11/7/2005

GF board

Just to confirm previous posts about the ease of eating gluten-free in Greece - I and my son enjoyed very good food in the lovely Pelion peninsular, helped by long regional culinary tradition (something of a rarity in Greece) and it being absolutely OK to ask to see the kitchen and what is in every dish.
I would single out the isolated Eleni's taverna (on the way to Kastri Beach near Platania) as especially good (and a magical orchard/olive grove setting surrounded by flowers -roses, gardenias, hydrangeas and a vine-covered terrace literally groaning with grapes); Hrisi Akti Taverna on Mikro Beach - much better than the usual beach taverna and very good fish, a beautiful plane tree, a spring, a shower and a a changing cubicle, all in a a very pretty architypal quiet beach setting (see link); and the main restaurant in the square in Lefkos which had the best home-made chips I have eaten and very good vegetable dishes.

You do need a translation but everyone we met took a lot of care and we were not ill once. No meal we had cost more than 12 Euros a head.

And for anyone hesitating to go abroad even with a newly diagnosed coeliac child, I would definitely recommend Greece: what they usually like - grilled chicken and chips, is generally safe, it's cheap and they can eat with virtually no clothes on...




Link: www.hrisiakti.com

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Greek Celiac / Coeliac Gluten Free Restaurant Cards This Greek foreign language restaurant card enables celiacs / coeliacs to tell the hotel, cafe or restaurant where they are eating out about their food requirements for a gluten free diet. Greek is spoken in the following countries: Cyprus, Greece, Turkey. Copyright Celiac Travel.com.
Check your food is really gluten free: www.celiactravel.com/test

www.celiactravel.com/gluten-free ... greek.html


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.... the official website of the Hellenic Society for celiac disease.

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Hellenic Coeliac Foundation

www.coeliac.gr/default.aspx?lang=en

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