Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern
$$ • Restaurant
Most Recent Reviews
Menu items were clearly marked, staff was very knowledgeable and accommodating. Very good food, satisfied with my experience.
I have eaten at three Rusty Bucket locations and always have a good experience. GF are marked on menu, they have GF buns, and servers are knowledgeable. They carry Red Bridge and have GF cheesecake!
Don't go here. They have a gluten free menu but cross contaminate. Twice have I been eating gluten free noodles and found a gluten noodle in with it. I only went back from it happening the first time because the manager said he took it very seriously and would talk to the chefs which obviously, not the case
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Good food, good atmosphere, a small variety of GF but generally the options are pretty good. If you want to have tortilla chips, they fry those in a fryer that cross-contacts with gluten.
They no longer have a GF menu. There are a few items that noted as GF (or modified to be) but not many choices. Burgers are pretty good. Their fryer is definitely mixed with other foods and not dedicated GF.
Overall it seems like a place that's conscious of Celiac Disease and makes an effort to provide gluten free food, but maybe is a little lax in their execution and their protocols.
I feel ~mostly okay after eating here, but I definitely do not feel 100%. Got the Baja tacos, with gluten free corn tortillas. When the tacos came out, there wasn't any indicator that the tortillas were corn based and not flour based, which scared me. They ended up being corn tortillas (I think - if they had been flour, I would be much sicker right now). Had to rely on the server for help there, but the server did not inspire a great deal of confidence, and said some things that kind of made my eyebrows raise. The menu did have a few gluten free options but everything was labeled "gluten free friendly" which, I mean, I understand. It is a chain, they serve a lot of gluten food, they can't guarantee there will be no cross contamination, but still, the use of the word "friendly" in relation to gluten always strikes terror in me.
So I don't know. Seems like a lot of people have had great experiences here. Maybe I'm just especially sensitive.
Best burger ever!! Service was great!
I had the quesadilla and my stomach hurt afterwards. The manager brought out my food and made sure to say it was gluten free
