Loved this place! I got a chai latte and the GF corn pancakes with bananas & walnuts. Everything was so yummy! The pancake was crispy on the outside and soft inside. The corn on top looks strange but, it tastes great. Staff was friendly and knowledgeable. My family enjoyed their pastries and meals too. Easy walk to Santa Monica pier from here. Definitely recommend.
— No gluten-free information on the menu
— Some
— Excellent
When I went to order the gluten free waffles a staff member informed me that the gluten free waffles are made in the same waffle maker as the gluten waffles. Not only that but the gluten free pastries are in the same case as the gluten pastries. If you do not care about cross contamination they have some good options. Unfortunately I get a bad reaction from cross contamination so I could not eat there and left.
— Not at all
Yummy omelet options and you can get a breakfast burrito with gf wraps. They have a gf muffin but it is touching other muffins.
— Somewhat
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Most/All
— Excellent
Great food but not too celiac friendly. Just because it gf doesn’t mean it should be placed next to gluten. People don’t care about cross contamination.
— Somewhat
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Some
— Excellent
Staff was knowledgeable food was delicious
— Very
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Some
— Good
One huge issue I have as a Celiac is companies using my autoimmune disease to market products to orthorexics and ignorant people who wrongly assume "gluten-free" means "healthy" while simultaneously leaving celiacs like me being able to safely eat.
With the prevalence of online food ordering apps, it's so dangerous for companies to advertise their product as "gluten-free" while simultaneously taking zero precautions to make sure that food is actually gluten-free and uncontaminated.
If a friend knows you must eat gluten-free, they might pick this up for you, thinking that it's safe because it comes marked from a legitimate "crunchy" business. Purchasing on a food app, celiacs might wrongly assume the food is safe to consume because the business is advertising it as "gluten-free."
Why do corporate chain restaurants not understand cross-contamination when it comes to gluten? At this location , the marked "gluten-free" muffins are on the same plate and touching gluten-containing muffins! As a Celiac, I can't spend money on contaminated food. One crumb of gluten can cause intestinal bleeding. Celiac disease is not a wheat allergy, it's an autoimmune disease and the only treatment is eating 100% gluten-free.
Are businesses so cheap that they can't afford a separate plate with cover and new tongs for the gluten-free muffins?
I can't imagine that restaurants would put bacon on the same display plate as tofu marked as "vegan." I can't imagine they'd use verbiage to denote that their product is "shellfish free" and put it on the same plate as lobster claws. That's the equivalent of putting gluten and gluten-free muffins on the same plate in a display case.
You wouldn't market a product as "diabetic-safe" and make it where it was only safe for dieters, not actual diabetics.
"Gluten-free" is a term that celiacs rely on to find safe to consume food, not a marketing term to carelessly slap on products without care to cross-contamination.
Please either sell gluten-free products responsibly, or stop marketing them as such.
(Purchased 1 Spanish latte, hot and 1 Spanish latte granita.)
Visited: December 2023
— Not at all
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Not Much/None
— Average
I asked and they toast gluten free bread in the same toaster as regular bread.
— Not at all
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Not Much
— Good
Got sick on GF muffin. Don’t recommend risking it.
— Not at all
— Gluten-free items are marked on the main menu
— Not Much/None
— Poor