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Panera Bread’s Gluten-Free Menu

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Being someone who makes much of his living from home on the internet, I’ve always found that going out and working in public can be satisfying at times. In order to do this, I simply need my laptop and a wireless internet connection (WiFi).

Probably my favorite place to “work” while out in public has to be Panera Bread. They offer a very relaxing atmosphere, and they have a number of great gluten-free items on their menu, making for an affordable and productive work environment.

While researching what Panera menu items are gluten-free, I was able to confirm the following should be okay to consume (though I still recommend making sure they are aware of your dietary needs to avoid cross-contamination!):

Official Website Menu Information: Panera Bread Gluten-Free Menu
Location Finder: Find a Panera Bread Location Near You

Below we’ve collected what foods are currently safe to eat at Panera Bread for your convenience:

Panera’s Gluten-Free Menu

**Note: Although we do our very best to meet your special requirements, we cannot rule out the possibility of cross-contact between these items and gluten-containing foods in our bakery cafe.**

**Note: Gorgonzola and bleu cheeses are commonly made with mold incubated on wheat. Some may choose to avoid these cheeses for this reason and you may substitute another cheese if you prefer. Items containing these ingredients are indicated below with (G) or (BC).**

Salads including the Salad Dressing (source of modified food starch is corn):

  • Greek Salad Fandango Salad (G)
  • Caesar Salad (without croutons)
  • Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad (without croutons)
  • Mediterranean Salmon Salad
  • Salmon Caesar Salad (without croutons)
  • Asian Sesame Chicken Salad (without Won Ton noodles)
  • Classic Cafe Salad
  • Strawberry Poppyseed Salad
  • Strawberry Poppyseed Salad with Chicken
  • Fuji Apple Chicken Salad (G)
  • California Mission Chicken Salad
  • Orchard Harvest Chicken Salad (G)
  • Chopped Chicken Cobb Salad (G)
  • BBQ Chopped Chicken Salad

Soups:

  • Low Fat Vegetarian Black Bean
  • Cuban Black Bean and Lentil
  • Vegetarian Roasted Red Pepper & Lentil
  • Vegetarian Butternut Squash
  • Creamy Tomato (without croutons)
  • Low-Fat Vegetarian Southwest
  • Tomato & Roasted Corn
  • Turkey Chickpea Chili
  • Summer Corn Chowder
  • Low-Fat Chicken Tortilla Soup

Salad Dressings:

  • Balsamic Vinaigrette
  • Caesar
  • Greek
  • Poppyseed
  • Raspberry Vinaigrette
  • Asian Sesame Vinaigrette
  • White Balsamic Vinaigrette
  • Roasted Garlic & Meyer’s Lemon Vinaigrette
  • BBQ Ranch

Beverages:

  • Coffee
  • Juice, both apple, and orange
  • Lemonade
  • Milk
  • Soda, fountain, and bottled
  • Tea, regular, and Chai Tea
  • All lattes & Frozen beverages
  • Strawberry Smoothie
  • Hot Chocolate
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte
  • Gingerbread Latte
  • Panera Bread Potato Chips

As always, when dining out gluten-free, do your due diligence and make sure the staff understands your needs. There are very few restaurants that are 100% gluten-free, so cross-contamination is always a risk. If you don’t feel comfortable with what you are hearing from the staff, perhaps it is best to dine elsewhere.

For information about other gluten-free restaurants menus, check out our gluten-free restaurants page.

Collection of Gluten-Free Beers

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These days there are a larger number of gluten-free beers than most people realize, and quite a few can be found without to much effort!  Especially those with internet access.

I’ve talked about a few of these individually int he past here at Celiac Disease, but haven’t ever put them together into one post, so I decided to finally get around to doing so.

Here are the gluten-free beers I’m currently aware of:

  • Bard’s Beer – The founders (Craig and Kevin) were actually both diagnosed with Celiac Disease, prompting this beer to be created.  If you are having troubles finding Bard’s Beer, the Bard’s locator on their official website has a locator at the bottom of the page.
  • Green’s – Green’s is a European flavored brew which is gluten-free and also suitable for Vegans and Vegatarians.  If you’d like to purchase some, I’ve been told it can be ordered from John’s Grocery.
  • New Grist – Having troubles finding New Grist?  Click here to locate liquor stores, restaurants, and/or bars that sell New Grist.
  • O’Brien – Known for being Australia’s first gluten-free beer.  If you’d like to give it a try, you can order it online.
  • Redbridge – Popular gluten-free beer from Anheuser-Busch.

If you know of some others which we haven’t already covered, please let me know so I can update our post!

Subway’s Gluten-Free Menu

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These days it seems like a Subway restaurant is about as difficult to find as a McDonald’s restaurant! I seriously have 4 Subway restaurants within one mile of my workplace (not joking!).

Wouldn’t it be great if Subway offered gluten-free foods? Unfortunately, as their focus is on bread and the insane amount of cross-contamination possibilities, we are pretty much out of luck.

Official Website Menu Information: Subway Gluten-Free Menu
Location Finder: Find a Subway Location Near You

A quick browsing over the most current version of the document shows that many of the salads appear to be gluten-free. With the exceptions of the Seafood Sensation, Meatball Marinara, and Sweet Onion Teriyaki Chicken, all the other salads are safe (assuming they care to avoid cross-contamination).

If you decide to try a Subway salad, you’ll want to make sure you tell them to hold the croutons.  Oh, and as for the salad dressings, the only one which appears to contain gluten is the “Atkins Sweet as Honey Mustard,” so you’ll want to avoid that as well!

As always, when dining out gluten-free, do your due diligence and make sure the staff understands your needs. There are very few restaurants that are 100% gluten-free, so cross-contamination is always a risk. If you don’t feel comfortable with what you are hearing from the staff, perhaps it is best to dine elsewhere.

For information about other gluten-free restaurants menus, check out our gluten-free restaurants page.

Have you ever tried eating at a Subway since being diagnosed with Celiac Disease?

Red Robin’s Gluten-Free Menu

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Traveling to a Red Robin in the near future? We’ve been doing some research and discovered that Red Robin is one of those good restaurants that actually publishes their gluten-free menu on their website! Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a direct link to it (you have to email them for a link to the current menu).

Official Website Menu Information: Red Robin’s Gluten-Free Menu
Location Finder: Find a Red Robin Location Near You

For your reference, we were able to obtain a recent Red Robin gluten-free menu, released only a few days ago! If you are viewing this post more than a month after publication, you’ll want to contact Red Robin for the most updated version of their gluten-free menu or use the menu link above simply as a general guide.

For your reference, here is the information provided in Red Robin’s menu:

Red Robin General Information:

  • Red Robin will customize orders to meet dietary needs.
  • Salad Dressings and mayo do contain vinegar in the ingredients list. The vinegar is not malt vinegar.
  • The Red Robin Seasoning is sprinkled on the beef patty and steak fries after cooking. The Seasoning does not contain wheat, barley, oat, or rye glutens. It may contain naturally occurring glutamates. These items can be ordered without Red Robin Seasoning. Please inform your server if you desire no seasoning.
  • Corn strips may be fried in a common fryer.
  • Steak fries are fried in a designated fryer.

Red Robin Produce Items:

  • Salsa
  • Black Beans
  • Turkey Breast Meat
  • Beef patty
  • Lettuce Wrap Burger
  • Carnitas meat
  • Grilled Chicken Breast Fillet
  • Egg
  • Turkey patty
  • Grilled Salmon
  • Rice
  • Side of cooked vegetables

Red Robin Current Entrees:

  • Cobb Salad
  • Crispy Chicken Salad, substitute crispy chicken with grilled chicken
  • Fajita Pollo, minus corn strips.

As always, when dining out gluten-free, do your due diligence and make sure the staff understands your needs. There are very few restaurants that are 100% gluten-free, so cross-contamination is always a risk. If you don’t feel comfortable with what you are hearing from the staff, perhaps it is best to dine elsewhere.

For information about other gluten-free restaurants menus, check out our gluten-free restaurants page.

Ruby Tuesday’s Gluten-Free Menu

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Plan to visit Ruby Tuesdays in the near future? Though this particular restaurant has long been hesitant to actually commit to anything being gluten-free (or to place anything on their official website), it looks like they have finally come out with an official response when asked for a gluten-free menu!

Official Website Menu Information: Ruby Tuesday’s Gluten-Free Menu
Location Finder: Find a Ruby Tuesday Location Near You

For your reference, here is the information we obtained regarding Ruby Tuesday’s gluten-free menu; however, because foods and ingredients are constantly changing, please verify with your server prior to ordering anything off their menu:

Currently all of our fried food is prepared in soybean oil.  Our French fries are fried in the same oil as our breaded items.

Please be aware that we do serve white and wheat hamburger buns which all contain wheat flour. Our premium knot roll and rolls used for Ruby Minis are white bread, while our Golden Bun used for most burgers is a wheat bun. All are made from wheat flour.

The following menu items are acceptable for guests with a gluten intolerance or Celiac Sprue disease:

  • Steaks (with Ruby’s seasoning only)
  • Chicken Oscar
  • Chicken Fresco
  • Any burger without bread (EXCLUSIONS: turkey burgers, the onion tanglers on minis, French fries)

Sides

  • Broccoli as currently prepared
  • Mashed potatoes as currently prepared
  • Baked potato without sour cream
  • Salad bar with discretion (excludes prepared salads on the salad bar)

Acceptable salad dressings:

  • Bleu Cheese
  • Ranch
  • Lite Ranch
  • Honey
  • Mustard
  • Caesar
  • Thousand Island
  • Italian
  • French

Unfortunately, for all other food items, Ruby Tuesday, Inc. cannot provide a listing of allergens that might be present in our menu items for the following reasons:

It is always possible, as we are preparing food in over 800 restaurants every day, that one item will be substituted for another, and that the substitute product’s contents may be different from the ingredients in the products we normally use.

As food is being prepared in our restaurants, it often comes in contact with other food, so even though a specific item may not contain allergens, it could be affected by another food item that does.

As always, when dining out gluten-free, do your due diligence and make sure the staff understands your needs. There are very few restaurants that are 100% gluten-free, so cross-contamination is always a risk. If you don’t feel comfortable with what you are hearing from the staff, perhaps it is best to dine elsewhere.

For information about other gluten-free restaurants menus, check out our gluten-free restaurants page.