Una Mas restaurant

[Guest guest]

Hi Sam,

Welcome to the Bay Area. Hopefully, you have had a chance to look at the

newly update CaliacSF.org site [formerly bayareaceliacs.org]. We are

trying to be both an " umbrella " communications group for the Bay

Area/Northern California and a group that meets together approximately

monthly.

In direct answer to your question about Una Mas: No. I figure that a

restaurant has to win me over by providing useful information, and if

they can't, then it is not my restaurant. Rather, I prefer the

ingredient disclosures from people like Chipotle Grill, Panera Bread,

Askew Grill, 's and others.

You can still be social and bring your own bag lunch.

Maybe others have good experiences. There are not a whole lot of fast

food restaurants on my list of safe places to go. A good source,

although no Northern California, is to do a search on " Celiac San

Diego. " Gluten Free in SD is CeliacSF.Org's mirror organization in the

south state.

Vic-Sunnyvale

>

> Hi everyone,

> I just moved up to the bay area and am excited to be a part of your

> celiac group. Thank you for allowing me to join. I already have a

> question for you. During my orientation next week, the faculty will be

> providing lunch for us residents. They're ordering from Una Mas

> restaurant, which I understand has several locations throughout the

> area. Have any of you eaten succesfully at this restaurant? What do

you

> order? I can't seem to get anyone from their corporation to answer any

> questions. Any help you guys can give would be MUCH appreciated.

> Hope to meet some of you soon.

> Thanks,

> Sam

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Sam (do you prefer Sam to ?),

Welcome to the bay area and our group.

We used to eat at Una Mas all the time (before they closed their

Capitola location). We didn’t have any problems as long as we stuck

to the obvious GF items (corn tortillas; nothing battered or fried, including

the chips). If you can request a soft taco on a corn tortilla you should

be OK. I would recommend calling the Una Mas location they will be

ordering from and asking a few more questions specific to what you would like

to have, for instance if you want the carne asada, do they flour the meat

before frying it? Also ask about any sauces that may be on the meat or

taco. I don’t recall any such problems at the Capitola location,

but you should check the particular restaurant they will be ordering

from. If a phone call doesn’t work, you could take a field trip and

check it out in person (off hours is a good idea; questions are more likely to

get answered if they aren’t swamped); Una Mas is basically a fast food Mexican,

so it would be easy to drop in for a quick bite or just to ask questions.

They make a point of serving fresh ingredients, so they usually can tell you

what’s in their food without much trouble. If all else fails, bring

a GF bar or other snack as a back-up.

If you are doing your residency at Stanford, you should check

out some of the celiac resources there, the Celiac Sprue Research Foundation

and the Celiac Clinic, as well as the group that meets occasionally in the

area. When you get settled in, be sure to send us an introduction with

your celiac history and any other info about yourself you would like to share.

Pam Newbury

Santa Cruz Celiac Support Group

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf Of samanthalynfrench

Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:00 PM

Subject: [ ] Una Mas restaurant

Hi everyone,

I just moved up to the bay area and am excited to be a part of your

celiac group. Thank you for allowing me to join. I already have a

question for you. During my orientation next week, the faculty will be

providing lunch for us residents. They're ordering from Una Mas

restaurant, which I understand has several locations throughout the

area. Have any of you eaten succesfully at this restaurant? What do you

order? I can't seem to get anyone from their corporation to answer any

questions. Any help you guys can give would be MUCH appreciated.

Hope to meet some of you soon.

Thanks,

Sam