Review of Green Bar & Kitchen

I had high hopes for this restaurant. The menu on their wall lists gluten-free items in black and gluten-containing items in red. But the servers warned us that everything there could be cross-contaminated, and that the baked goods are from Sami's -- which is a bakery that is notorious for making gluten-free items that actually have a lot of gluten in them. If we hadn't had to catch a plane I don't think we would have eaten here.

If I remember right, my picky eaters found plain rice to eat here, so they were happy.

I ordered the Roasted Bowl, which was decent. I liked the sauce, which is a combination of mayo and dressing, which I thought was yummy. The veggies were kind of un-inspired, though.

The awful part of this story is that my daughter ordered a burger, which was marked on the menu as gluten-free. But for some reason the restaurant silently substituted a gluten bun for the gluten-free bun that was supposed to be served with that. We didn't find out about the substitution until later in the day, when we boarded the airplane and my poor daughter started vomiting because of the gluten ingestion. The poor kid was *so* sick, for days -- it was really awful.

I know that anybody could make a mistake. But because of the other cross-contamination problems that they talked about I would not recommend this restaurant to anybody who needs truly gluten-free food.

Celiac friendly?

No