If you live in or are considering visiting the Maui (Hawaii) area in the near future, Eva recently took the time to provide some tips on eating gluten free in Maui. In her post, she provides 10 locations in Maui and some information about each one taken from her recent trip there.
Here are a few:
- 1) Advanced notice is always a good thing. I called in to make reservations a week ahead of time & asked the hostess to add a special note to the reservation that said I had a gluten allergy – every single restaurant I called seemed very appreciative of the advanced notice.
- 2) Down to Earth Food Market. As soon as you leave the airport, drive 1.5miles to this organic supermarket. They have a great selection of organic foods, including gluten-free options! Bread, cookies, cereal, snack bars, crackers, chips…the works. They also have a casual food bar with organic foods such as brown rice, steamed vegetables, tofu, etc – and all ingredients are listed, including their use of wheat-free soy sauce.
- 3) Lahaina Grill. The restaurant is pricey, but the food was delicious and their gluten-free service was superb. As soon as I sat down, our waiter – Richard, also the head sommelier – came over and asked which one of us had a gluten allergy (see Pt #1…advanced notice is a good thing!). He was very knowledgeable about the menu and what I could/could not eat. I eventually chose the Warm Pecan Crusted Goat Cheese & Baby Arugula Salad (with pears, roasted beets & olive oil instead of the Poha berry honey-mustard) & the Seared Lion Paw Scallops (with corn, spinach & asparagus instead of the celery root mash & lobster champagne essence). Both dishes were great…the scallops were some of the best I’ve ever had.
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I found this place that sells all kind of Gluten Free food and snacks. http://www.WholeAndNatural.com. I had a great experience with them the last few times. Thanks to them I can have lots of yummy treats.
@ Jenn – Thanks for your comment! I haven’t tried Whole and Natural yet, but now you’ve given me a reason to.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us and our other readers.