If you live in the Boca Raton area, one person recommends you check out Seasons 52!   Here is one testimonial from Gluten Free DFW:

I ate last night at Seasons 52 in Boca Raton.  The staff was very accommodating and they had a gluten free menu.  All of the wait staff carry a PDA that has all of the allergen information in it for every dish on the menu.  Also, all of the entrees are 475 calories or less!

This is a chain, so check out their site and see if there’s one near you.

Sounds like a pretty helpful place to eat!  Thanks to one of our readers for the tip.

If you live in or near Chicago (or travel their regularly), you might be on the lookout for gluten free restaurants.   ABC 7 Chicago has recently posted an article about Celiac disease, and in their post they cover some gluten free restaurants in Chicago.   Here is some of the information I was able to gather from their post.

In Downers Grove, Stillwater Restaurant has a lot of gluten-free options. And in Westchester, the gluten-free grocery is attracting shoppers from all over the region. There’s also going to be a gluten-free cooking expo at the Oakbrook Doubletree in September.

Rose’s Wheatfree Bakery
2901 Central St., Evanston
847-859-2723

The Balanced Kitchen
6263 N. McCormick Blvd.
773-463-1085

Other good options for gluten-free:

Da Lucianos
8343 W. Rand Ave., River Grove
708-453-1000

Stillwater Restaurant and Winebar
5141 Main St., Downers Grove
630-324-4291

Gluten-Free Grocery
1922 S. Mannheim Rd., Westchester
708-483-8785

Adobo Grill (Gluten Free Menu Available)
1610 N. Wells St.
312-266-7999
OR
2005 W. Division St.
773-252-9990

Shops on Butterfield
356 Yorktown Shopping Center, Lombard
630-627-9990

Wildfire and the Weber Grill Restaurants offer gluten free menus

Lou Malnati’s offers a crustless pizza with a sausage base as a gluten free option

Whole Bakers
773-742-1834
www.wholebakers.com

Cookies are available at all Sunset Foods locations, Nielsen’s Bakery in Homewood and the Gluten-Free Grocery in Westchester, Ill.

Gluten Free Store
807 Waukegan Rd, Northbrook
847-513-6515

Roh & Joh’s Gluten Free Sweets
www.glutenfreesweets.com
847-681-1782

Vinci Restaurant
1732 N. Halsted Street
312-266-1199

Swirlz Cupcakes (gluten-free menu)
705 W. Belden
773-404-2253

Venus (gluten-free cupcakes every day)
820 W. Jackson
312 714-1001

One resource I recommend people living or traveling to Chicago check out is Celiac Chicago.  This website is a resource for people with Celiac Disease that gives resources and shows you where to shop and what to buy.

If you are following a gluten free diet in the Houston area, you’ll be happy to learn that a Pizza Fusion will be coming to your area this November.   

For those unfamiliar with Pizza Fusion, it is an organic restaurant chain that prides itself on being “green.”   Their menu is organic and includes both a gluten free pizza and gluten free beer!

If you live outside the Houston area, don’t worry.  Pizza Fusion has plans to open up new stores all over the place, including 75 more stores throughout Texas alone! 

[Information Courtesy of Houstonist]

If you live in the Detroit Michigan area and plan to travel through there soon, add GF Cucinas to your list of destinations.  It looks like they are a restaurant that is 100% gluten free!

You can view GF Cucinas menu here.  It will be interesting to see how successful this business model is.  Are there enough people in that area to support an entirely gluten free restaurant?   What will the prices be like since it is technically a specialty restaurant?

GF Cucinas Information:

37867 Mound Road
Sterling Heights, MI 48310
11:00 AM to 7:00 PM (Tuesday through Saturday)

Just noticed a post over at Eat Sustainable about the Pizza Lucé location in St. Paul (Minnesota) now carrying Cooqi’s gluten free pizza crusts every Tuesday. 

Here is the comment from Pizza Lucé:

It’s true! Due to overwhelming customer demand we’re happy to announce that we’re now offering a gluten free menu available only on Tuesdays only at our St. Paul location. Beginning Tuesday, October 14th our Gluten Free menu will be offered alongside our regular menu every Tuesday. We’re proud to offer Gluten Free pizza crust from Cooqi Bakery in St. Paul. This menu will contain nearly all of our speciality pizzas and toppings as well as some delicious new items such as our gluten free stuffed shells and pasta and Redbridge Gluten free beer.

As you might imagine offering a gluten free menu in a flour rich pizza restaurant is so simple task. We take gluten contamination very seriously and we’ve completed a precise review of all of our ingredients and have developed procedures and staff education and training so that we can prevent any possible cross contamination. However, as diligent as we are, there is always the very small chance that risk of gluten contamination as we don’t have a completely gluten free kitchen.

At Pizza Lucé it is very important part of our culture to serve all of our customers, regardless of whether they’re celiac, lactose intolerent, vegan, vegetarian or none of the above. We’re proud to offer this new menu! Free free to join us and if you’d like to be updated with information about this special new menu or you know others who might be interested, please rvsp for our gluten free newsletter by emailing us at glutenfree@pizzaluce.com.

Cooqi will be supplying the crusts. At cooqi, “[They] espouse a radical and uncompromising food philosophy, that ‘we are what we eat,’ and we need to eat great things for our bodies: whole grains, organic, no trans fats, no refined sugars, real ingredients, freshly milled-not just not bad for you, but good for you.”

You can view their gluten free menu here.

It sounds like they are fairly educated on the needs of people with Celiac Disease, and they have dedicated an entire specific day to this each week, so hopefully this means they are keeping cross-contamination concerns in mind.

Planning to travel to Sicily (island in the Mediterranean Sea) in the near future?   SicilyGuide.com has recently put together a very comprehensive list of gluten free locations in Sicily that you’ll want to check out.  

I must say that this is an incredibly detailed list and the author did a great job.   As always, remember to confirm with your server the seriousness of your situation and make sure they are educated on cross-contamination.