What sort of restaurants are more likely to be truly gluten free?
Here in my hometown of Oban, Scotland, I regularly eat at a great seafood restaurant Ee-usk. I do so without any fear because the food they cook is almost all naturally gluten free. So the chances of cross-contamination are really very low. What is also rather cool is that their fryer is only used for potato fries. The Temple Seafood Restaurant in Oban is even safer – they don’t even have wheat flour on the premises – they thicken sauces with mashed potato. These are two extremely safe examples, but it is usually easy to find a restaurant’s menu online these days and look at the type of dishes they serve. If half the menu is breaded, crumbed and pastried, you might want to try somewhere else. Making your final choice Then, once you have narrowed down your list, an email or a phone call will tell you just how experienced they are at providing gluten free food. I’m usually put off by a waiter who says “oh yes, no problem, you’ll be fine”. What I really want to hear is “ah yes, we have se
