Post by kickingfrog on Oct 19, 2016 12:24:55 GMT
Gluten Free on the West Coast of USA
Posted by GFT on 19/10/2016
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Recently we enjoyed a 2000 mile road trip through California, Nevada and Arizona and I had no difficulties regarding the gluten free diet. Lots of restaurants had a gluten free menu and one hotel had gluten free bread, plus toaster, and muffins, biscuits etc on a separate table at the breakfast buffet – full marks! However, I did find that even though restaurants had a gluten free menu, they were generally less good when it came to desserts.
There were three particular gluten free highlights. In San Francisco, in the Ferry Building Marketplace, I visited Mariposa Baking Company, artisan-crafted gluten free:
pickup.mariposabaking.com/pages/san-francisco
Also in San Francisco, in the basement of Macy’s Department Store in Union Square, there is the Asian Box, 100% gluten free:
www.asianbox.com/
In Santa Barbara, on Route 1, there is Lilac Patisserie, a dedicated gluten free bakery and café. I have never seen so many beautiful cakes, muffins, biscuits etc in one place. A coeliac’s heaven:
lilacpatisserie.com/about
I downloaded a most useful App on my mobile called Find Me Gluten Free and wherever we were on our travels I could check my App and find several places listed:
www.facebook.com/FindMeGlutenFree/
Posted by GFT on 19/10/2016
GF board
Recently we enjoyed a 2000 mile road trip through California, Nevada and Arizona and I had no difficulties regarding the gluten free diet. Lots of restaurants had a gluten free menu and one hotel had gluten free bread, plus toaster, and muffins, biscuits etc on a separate table at the breakfast buffet – full marks! However, I did find that even though restaurants had a gluten free menu, they were generally less good when it came to desserts.
There were three particular gluten free highlights. In San Francisco, in the Ferry Building Marketplace, I visited Mariposa Baking Company, artisan-crafted gluten free:
pickup.mariposabaking.com/pages/san-francisco
Also in San Francisco, in the basement of Macy’s Department Store in Union Square, there is the Asian Box, 100% gluten free:
www.asianbox.com/
In Santa Barbara, on Route 1, there is Lilac Patisserie, a dedicated gluten free bakery and café. I have never seen so many beautiful cakes, muffins, biscuits etc in one place. A coeliac’s heaven:
lilacpatisserie.com/about
I downloaded a most useful App on my mobile called Find Me Gluten Free and wherever we were on our travels I could check my App and find several places listed:
www.facebook.com/FindMeGlutenFree/