Re: San Francisco Trip Report

[Guest guest]

WF in SOMA has GF cupcakes? I've never even seen a GF cupcake . . . sigh. I mostly go WF in Sebastopol.

I'm sorry you had such mediocre meals in SF. Better luck next time.

H.

In a message dated 10/18/08 7:46:31 PM, joe@... writes:

The only fresh GF

baked goods were cupcakes.

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[Guest guest]

I meant to add that I sometimes go to the WF that's at the edge of Russian Hill. I've never seen GF cupcakes there, either. Perhaps I haven't known where to look. Has anyone else seen them there?

Again, I hope her luck on meals is better the next time she visits SF.

H.

In a message dated 10/18/08 7:46:31 PM, joe@... writes:

The only fresh GF

baked goods were cupcakes.

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[Guest guest]

FYI: the ice cream parlor at Ghiardelli Square does have an allergen info sheet

that is supposed to be kept at the register where you order. We ask for the

manager there so that someone makes sure the sundae maker doesn't stick a cookie

on the ice cream on auto pilot, but despite having to send a few things back

over the years (cookie on top) we've never been glutened there.

Maureen

> From: Joe ez <joe@...>

> Subject: [ ] San Francisco Trip Report

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> We then walked to Ghiradelli Square and shared a peanut

> butter hot fudge sundae. We didn't bother to check for GF status of it

> because they were very busy, but it didn't seem to have any

> gluten-containing components, so we went for it, and she was fine.

>

> -Joe

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[Guest guest]

I'm sorry the SF trip was a bust. My husbandand I had a better experience tonight at Amici's in San . The gf pizza was awesomeI had spicy sausage, mushrooms and freshbasil. It was so nice to have a soft chewycrust, although the toppings were skimpyespecially for $4.75 extra for the gf crust. Really nice to have the pizza oven taste andthe Redbridge. Nice experience!

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[Guest guest]

WF in SOMA has a ton of gf goodies in the freezer, including a variety of cookies and cakes and pies and rolls. Plus there are a ton of non-frozen gf items on the regular shelves, including delicious cookies and crackers.

While my family loves Cafe Gratitude -- and my 4 and 7 year old kids love love love the "pizza" -- if you're not an adventurous eater, it definitely isn't the place for you! But San Francisco has a million gf options - we live here and eat out regularly and have found that good restaurants easily accommodate me -- or have plenty of naturally gf items that I don't need any special accommodation. Rainforest Cafe is not on my list of "good" restaurants! (Though I am surprised that they don't have at least a small gf menu, since they are a chain and it seems chains often have one.)

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[Guest guest]

At the SoMa location, they were in a refrigerated area at the bakery

counter. It was an uncovered case, and the cupcakes were about shin

level. We wouldn't have noticed them, except that we asked the woman

behind the counter if they had any GF baked goods, and she told us that

the cupcakes were the only non-frozen GF items that they had there.

-Joe

flatcat9@... wrote:

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> I meant to add that I sometimes go to the WF that's at the edge of

> Russian Hill. I've never seen GF cupcakes there, either. Perhaps I

> haven't known where to look. Has anyone else seen them there?

>

> Again, I hope her luck on meals is better the next time she visits SF.

> H.

> In a message dated 10/18/08 7:46:31 PM, joe@... writes:

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[Guest guest]

Funny- this inspired me to go to Cafe Gratitude tonight. I LOVE that

" pizza, " haha. But if you're ordering it and really wanting a

traditional cheese pizza- it's not going to satisfy. Instead I would

recommend Mariposa in Oakland- they have fabulous GF pizza that is

much more traditional.

As someone else mentioned- Zadin in SF is also a special and very safe

option with a very good GF menu.

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> So, we went through the list, and decided to try Cafe Gratitude, due

> to the good reviews that I read on this list, and the fact that it is

> 100% GF. Definitely a " different " experience. It is also vegan, and

> mostly all raw foods. I ordered the Thai quinoa bowl (which I thought

> was pretty good), and the carrot/avocado soup (which was WAAAAY too

> salty; I should have sent it back, but I didn't). My daughter ordered

> the marinara " pizza " which was some sort of buckwheat cracker, with a

> little marinara sauce spread on, topped with raw tomatoes, some sort

> of cheese, and a big pile of sprouts. She didn't like it at all. She

> also ordered a chocolate mint shake, which she didn't like because it

> had fresh ground mint leaves in it. I ended up drinking it, and she

> ordered a vanilla shake which she liked. The food was very expensive

> for what it was. We spent over $40 for lunch for the two of us.

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> That was our last meal for the trip. We say Beach Blanked Babylon

> that afternoon, then drove home in time for dinner. Overall, it was

> fairly disappointing, GF-wise, though we did have a good time overall.

>

> -Joe

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