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Thanks to all who responded. Below is a summary of the comments I received.
pf changs and bonefishgrille, as well as, south austin grill in Alex. Very
good experiences.
Go to our support group website: _www.dcceliacs.com_
(http://www.dcceliacs.com/) and on the left side, you will see a heading for restaurants. These
are restaurants that our members like and recommend. We have 300 members so
this is a good sampling
Arlington has plenty of restaurants, and our family of four celiacs eats out
here all the time. The Crystal City area has many places spread down 23rd
Street, and this includes at least one and maybe two Thai restaurants. There
is a Legal Seafoods in Crystal City which has very fine upscale dining, and
they now have a gf menu. We have a favorite tapas restaurant downtown
called Jaleo, and they have opened a branch in Crystal City. There is a
metro station right near your hotel, so if you feel adventurous, ride the
metro downtown to Gallery Place and eat at a local tex-mex chain called the
Austin Grill, which has a gf menu (ask the hostess). Or come to a different
area in Arlington - eat at our favorite Vietnamese place, a tiny and very
unassuming place called Café Dalat - right across the street from the
Clarendon metro stop. Or at the Ballston Metro Stop, another tex-mex place
called Rio Grande. There's also a Japanese steak house in Ballston - right
across from the shopping mall on Wilson Blvd. The name escapes me but is
something like "mataksu". We had a great meal in there one night - we
called ahead and carried in our own soy sauce, and they prepared our meal
with it. Also in the Clarendon area is a whole foods grocery store, with
lots of gf options. Good luck, and enjoy your stay! Lynn
Many people recommended the Austin Grill - Mexican,5 locations around DC,
has a gluten free menu.
www.austingrill.com. Chili is the specialty at the Austin Grill with Texas
music playing in the background. Other house specialties include quesadillas
with chorizo and of course the margaritas.
Address: 2404 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Telephone: 202-337-8080
Category: Southwestern, Bar
Open: MON 11:30 am-10:30 pm.
TUE-THU 11:30 am-11 pm.
FRI 11:30 am-12 am.
SAT 11 am-12 am.
SUN 11 am-10:30 pm.
Meals Served: Brunch. Lunch. Dinner.
Cost: Inexpensive
Other Info: Full Bar on Site.
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Chef Geoff - they have two locations in DC - no GF menu, but they have
always been very accomodating and I have never had any problems.
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Cafe Atlantico- expensive
Restaurant Nora- expensive
Oceanaire-expensive
Jandara- Thai
Tara Thai
Well Dressed Burrito- open for lunch only
Jaleo- Spanish
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Chadwicks Restaurant in Friendship Heights, DC has a staff that will go out
of its way to make sure that nothing you eat has
gluten in it.
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Carlyle Grand Cafe in Shirlington, VA.
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La Colline on NJ Ave. near Union Station understands GF and Montmartre on
7th
above PA Ave SE understands.
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Mike's American Grill
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The CLarendon area (Alrington, VA next to the Clarendon Metro Station) has a
lot of Vietnamese
places. We love Cafe Dalat, which is just across the street from the metro
stop. It is very unassuming place, with delicious cheap food, and almost
everything on the menu is gf....we avoid the dishes with "soft noodles".
For Thai food a great place is Ringcome in Arlington, on Columbia Pike. Or
we have a nice local chain called Tara Thai.
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Just wanted to let you all know about another great restaurant. This
weekend I went to Rosa Mexicana on the corner of 7th and F Streets downtown
(across from the MCI Center). Every item on the menu except for 1 dessert
is wheat free. They use corn instead of wheat. I would describe it as an
upscale Mexican restaurant. Everything was delicious. I didn't have one
but the rest of my friends raved about the pomegranate margaritas!
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We've been on the search for a new Asian restaurant since we became
disenchanted with Bangkok Gardens in Downtown Bethesda. Well, we found it!
One or two people at the last meeting mentioned this restaurant and then a
menu from them arrived in the mail the other week.
It's the China Pavilion restaurant on 4611-A Sangamore Road in Bethesda.
301-263-1088. For those who know Bethesda, it's in the Ft. Sumner
neighborhood near the Defense Mapping Agency.
Bottom line, they keep wheat-free soy sauce on-hand for customers who
request it. We brought our own tonight, and they used it. We ordered
Crispy Beef, Chicken w/Broccoli in a white sauce, Egg Plant in garlic sauce
and Pad Thai. The Pad Thai was just OK, but everything else was fantastic.
It was the first time Abe had tried Crispy Beef, which was my favorite.
The fellow behind the bar, who seemed to be the manager, said to me, "we
seem to have a lot of customers requesting wheat-free food." I told him we
all talk to each other, and when we find out about someone who's
accommodating to our dietary needs, we patronize that establishment. And,
our group is getting bigger and bigger. He liked that.
He said that you needed to request the wheat free soy sauce as it was not
standard, but there was no extra charge for it. As always, I also ask for
corn starch in the sauces and coatings just to be sure.
We live outside of DC so unless you are venturing into the suburbs, we can
not help a lot. BUT my kids love the Austin Grill, check them out online. My
hubby and I love Chipotle.com the little ones can eat rice and beans there.
Careful at Chipitle to skip the lettuce since they rarely use tongs for
this. There was just a post on Silly Yaks about a Boston Market/McDonalds being
inside one of the museums. Email me again and I can find this email for you
if you are not on that listserv when I have more time.
Go to www.outback.com , www.carrabbas.com , www.bonefishgrill.com .
They are all owned by Outback Steakhouse and have gluten free menus (even
for children) and locations on their web site. Print a copy of the menu,
take it with you, and ASK FOR THE MANAGER------. I have eaten at all of
them with no adverse effects. Perhaps there will be one near where you will
Yes. We stayed at the Holiday Inn at 500 C Street, SW.
202-479-4000. It could be 550 C Street. It is near the Air
and Space Museum of the Smithsonian--just a block off the
mall. We walked everywhere except when we were dressed up
for a lunch in the Reagan Building. The chef at this
Holiday Inn worked with me through the waiter on what I
could and could not eat. He even fixed me things that were
not on the menu. It was great. There was also a TCBY
Yogurt Shop somewhere near downtown. Diane
always go to Austin Grill when I'm in DC. Its a
tex-mex restaurant with a GF menu. There are several
locations in the area. The one closest to the middle
of the action downtown is about a block away from the
Chinatown Metro Stop -- near the International Spy
Museum. You can check out their website and GF menu
online --
Also, there are Whole Foods and Trader Joes
restaurants in the area -- suburbs.
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