Review of Coastal Flats

Make sure you explicitly tell the server about your need to avoid gluten. I ordered for my daughter the warm goat cheese salad from the gluten intolerance menu, and it ended up being served with croutons on it. My daughter, recently diagnosed with CD, is only 8 years old so she ate some croutons right away assuming they were OK. Then I asked the server and she said they are normal croutons and not supposed to be on the salad, but there was a "miscommunication in the kitchen, sorry about that." I talked with the manager and she confirmed that the croutons were not supposed to be part of the salad, and advised us to inform the server next time about our daughter's CD so that the manager can make sure the meal is prepared correctly from start to finish. She gave us a gift card to encourage us to come back again. It was a learning experience and disappointing that we had more trouble with a gf menu than with restaurants that don't even have a gf menu. The gf menu gave us a false sense of safety but we should still do our due diligence. I wish the server had asked if we had any dietary requirements, seeing that we were ordering from the gluten intolerance menu.

I also am not sure if the rest of their gluten intolerance menu is actually gf. What about the fries? And there is a pasta dish with no mention of gf pasta. We definitely should have asked more questions.

How confident are you that this establishment takes safety precautions against cross-contact?

— Not at all

Is there a gluten-free menu?

— Separate gluten-free menu

How much of the menu is available gluten-free?

— Most/All

How would you rate the taste and quality of the gluten-free food you tried?

— Excellent