Re: Mountain View Restaurant Ideas

[Guest guest]

Cascal on Castro. It's a tapas place with lots of choices. They have a GF menu.From: roobop2 <cwpowers@...>Subject: [ ] Mountain View Restaurant Ideas Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 8:00 PM

Hi,

I tried looking in the archives for gluten free friendly restaurants in Mountain View. I was not

very successful. Any suggestions? I will be taking a friend to dinner who will be my ride to an

endoscopy and back. He doesn't eat meat and ranges widely in tastes. It's for this Thursday.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Carol

[Guest guest]

No specifics in Mountain View, but in general I have had good luck at

Indian restaurants. Avoid anything deep fried like Pakoras or

Pappadams (CC) or from the same Tandooi oven that they make Naan in.

Ask about specific dishes (some dishes like Koftas might have wheat

flour) -- but most of the dishes are usually GF and plenty of

vegetarian.

At ate a place called Rumi last night in San (just north of

Redwood City) and so far I think it worked out well (no reaction yet).

They only had one veg entree though.

-Luther

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:00 PM, roobop2 <cwpowers@...> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I tried looking in the archives for gluten free friendly restaurants in

> Mountain View. I was not

> very successful. Any suggestions? I will be taking a friend to dinner who

> will be my ride to an

> endoscopy and back. He doesn't eat meat and ranges widely in tastes. It's

> for this Thursday.

> Any help would be much appreciated.

>

> Carol

>

>

[Guest guest]

wow - I was at Cascal last week for happy hour and never even asked

if they had a GF menu. In fact, I asked our server to check with the

chef as to whether the masa coated onion strips had wheat flour (they

do) and he never even mentioned a gluten free menu. Now that I know

they have a GF menu I can't wait to go back there. The sangria and

chips/dips we had were great. Can't wait to try some tapas :-)

Jean

> From: roobop2 <cwpowers@...>

> Subject: [ ] Mountain View Restaurant Ideas

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> Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 8:00 PM

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> Hi,

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> I tried looking in the archives for gluten free friendly

restaurants in Mountain View. I was not

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> very successful. Any suggestions? I will be taking a friend to

dinner who will be my ride to an

>

> endoscopy and back. He doesn't eat meat and ranges widely in

tastes. It's for this Thursday.

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> Any help would be much appreciated.

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> Carol

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[Guest guest]

thanks- I usually do ask. I think being out w/ my co-workers for the

first time since going GF lsat yesar I decided to chance it (stupid,

I know, but I had no reaction so I was lucky). I felt so high

maintainance already with all my gazillion quetsions about food prep

when we were ordering and the only thing on the happy hour (1/2

price) menu that looked safe was the chips. But you're right, if I

had been out wiht my husband or alone I would have definitely asked

them. Does anyone else run into this " peer pressure " kind of thing? I

know my co-workers are supportive of my diet restrictions but this

was the first time they were also impacted by it. We ended up

ordering the chips which I could eat plus the masa onion strings that

they also could eat.

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> Just a suggestion to always ask how the chips are made. At Torilla

Heights in

> SF, the chips are deep fried in the same oil as the beer battered

items...

> Fortunately, the manager there was on top of that and brought it to

my

> attention, since I hadn't thought to ask.

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> In a message dated 7/21/08 7:15:45 PM, jina68@... writes:

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