Review of Teppan Edo

1780 Ave of the Stars, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

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For those unfamiliar with teppan yaki, it's a style of restaurant where your food is prepared on a hot grill at your table while you watch. They use knives directly on the cook surface, and you can see all the leftover gunk from previous parties collecting at the edges. They clean it in front of you, and the process involves just running a damp towel over it. I'm not sure what the manager in the other review is thinking saying this will be adequate to clean all the potential allergens off. Obviously this shared surface is terrible for celiacs, but they do offer to cook your food in the kitchen on a separate, dedicated allergen free surface.

However, this is the first Disney World restaurant I've been to so far that does not offer an allergy menu. Instead, the manager comes out and lists off all the sauces you can't have, and that's about all they do for you. Then you have to hold that list in your head while navigating the menu.

The salad was a bowl of romaine and iceberg with some straight red wine vinegar on the side. Not even with oil, salt, or pepper, just some vinegar. Awful. I had two bites and just no.

They typically serve everyone udon noodles with veggies as a side with their selected protein, but they have no allergy friendly alternatives to the noodles. Instead, you get grilled veggies with no seasoning and a bottle of kikkoman gf soy sauce.

They serve everyone else seasoned rice, but you get plain white rice.

On the plus side, I tested the dipping sauce they served me as well as the meal with my Nima sensor and they came back gluten-free. However, Nima can't detect fermented wheat products like soy sauce, so it only rules out ctoss-contamination with the noodles and breaded products, not with the regular soy sauce.

Celiac friendly?

No

Updated 6 years ago