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This information was gathered from those that personally responded to my posting about San Francisco.  Thank you to everyone!  Your help is appreciated.

Christy




Dry Creek Kitchen, next door to Dry Creek Inn, in Healdsburg is pricy (app. $50/person), but oh so good!  It's between Cotati and SF.  Rivoli's on Solano Ave in the Albany/Berkeley area.  Both will need reservations.



Here's a couple of resources for the Bay Area:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/celiacbayarea/

http://www.celiacsf.org/

Hope this helps!



I ate at One Market on Market Street and they did a great job for me. My 
other meals were at the Fairmont Hotel which surpassed any gf meals I've 
ever had from other restaurants. They made me coq au vin, tomato banana soup 
and just wonderful things.



>Hi, Look in the listserv's archives, there has been a lot of postings.  
When 
I went there myself last year, I explored some of the old postings, some had 
evaporated.  I found one place myself that was not gluten free per se,  but 
had a number of items I could eat.  I have DH and so am pretty sensitive 
immediately to ingesting ggluten.  The name of the retaurant was Cafe 
Gratitute.  It  has locations in the Sunset area near the arboretum in Golden 
Gade park. Their website is www.CafeGratitude.com.  They were vegetarian.  
There are innumerable sushi restuarants and Chinese Restuarants.  
Communication is the issue.   There was one in Noe Valley (a Chinese 
restuarant) that I had heard from the Listserv was very cooperative, but I 
did not find it to be so.  Chefs and wait people come and go.  There is a Bay 
area Celiac support group but they had no GFRAP or particular restuarants to 
offer.  That was a year and a half ago, so things may have changed, look them 
up on the web.  They may have been based in Palo Alto. I suppose Outback and 
PF Chan restaurants will work, I'm sure they have a nation wide directory.  
Good Luck!  Shereen Rosenthal
There are Trader Joe's, Rainbow Grocery and 
Whole Foods around



If you're on the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building, I recommend the Ferry 
Building itself. It has lots of wonderful shops and restaurants...upper end, 
with organic produce, artisan cheese, meats, veggies, etc. Because many of 
the dishes are not derived from processed foods, there are more items to 
choose from that are GF. The Ferry Building has a web site and you can check 
out the individual merchants, menus, etc. I recommend Mistral  if you like 
meat -- wonderfully prepared pork, beef, etc. prepared GF. The folks there 
were good about pointing out which items were GF and which weren't.



Enjoy the fresh crab and seafood anywhere in the San Francisco area.   
It is fantastic.  The crab and shrimp combination louis's are so  
good.  Just watch out for the sour dough bread which is served with  
every meal.  Any non-celiacs will want to eat it (which is the best)  
and the crust crumbs will fly.  Also, many restaurants use sour dough  
croutons, so make sure to verify they don't put them on. Sorry, I  
can't give you any places in particular, as we just ate where we  
wanted and I worked around it.  It is such a beautiful city.  I would  
suggest carrying the travel packets of GF soy sauce in your purse in  
case you end up in Chinatown or other Asian type restaurants.  You  
should see Carmel by the Sea and Monterey if you are driving down the  
coast.  Have a great time - I know you will.
PS - there is a large support group in the bay area.  You might  
google "celiac support groups california" and get a list of them to  
contact for specific restaurant names.


 

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