Review of Avellino Gluten Free Bakery

SAFETY: I think people leaving reviews are mixing up Avellino Coffeehouse on Railroad and Avellino Dedicated Gluten-Free Bakery on Cornwall. (Same owners. Different facilities.) The Gluten-Free Bakery is a dedicated gluten-free bakery. I just talked to the woman at the counter today about cross-contamination and she said they just don’t have anything in the building to cross-contaminate with. // At the Avelino Coffeehouse on Railroad, they sell items from the gluten-free bakery and they also make other bakery items there with gluten. Because flour goes up in the air, it might be possible that there’s cross-contamination happening at the coffeehouse, but I can’t see how that would happen at the gluten-free facility.

FOOD: I got a pile of different things today and have, so far, tried the carrot cake muffin and the pumpkin chocolate chip muffin. They also tasted like actual muffins. ACTUAL MUFFINS!!! Not grainy or powdery or super oily, just nice fluffy muffins with good flavor. I liked the carrot cake one best, but both were good.

That said, since eating the two muffins, I’m having some kind of reaction with burning skin under my eyes and itchy arms and back. This happens to me sometimes when I accidentally eat trace amounts of gluten. I may be allergic to something else in the muffin (I’m starting to suspect that I don’t do well with tapioca), but it’s impossible to know unless you bake things yourself.

I’ll try the loaf of bread tonight and will update if I have any reactions.

Is ALL the food in this establishment gluten-free?

— Yes, the establishment is dedicated gluten-free

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

— Excellent