American Girl Cafe, Water Tower Place
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
Big & Littles Restaurant, but ask each time to make sure
Bistro 110
Blaze Pizza
Bojono's Pizza
Busy Burger, Taylor St
Dog Haus Biergarten - Avoid battered meats (eg corn dog) as batter contains some sort of tree nut. You can sub grilled onions for Onion rings. Request fried items to be prepared in the "vegetarian fryer" to avoid potential x-contamination. Cookies, no surprise, are not safe. Ask for Toni - she completely understands the food allergy risks and can guide you.
Epic Burger
Fish Bar
Forever Yogurt Express
Igor's Pelmeni
Interurban Boat House
Jet's Pizza
King's Bowl - Kudos to Kings Bowl for a nice evening and for being food allergy friendly. For the record, if you have peanut/tree nut allergies, steer clear of all fried items and certain breads. But you can eat pizza, cheese quesadillas, avocado toast (if they use sourdough toast), salmon (subbing out the cauliflower for sautéed vegs), steak tips and mac n cheese. Bowling is $7/game + $5 for shoes. Date can run $80+ with parking and 2 games. It's an upscale bowling destination.
Marcello's, A Father & Son Restaurant, 645 W North Ave. - call ahead, explain, and ask to have your food items baked on the conveyor belt oven (nothing with nuts goes in there). They use nuts on salads and on gorgonzola flatbread that is baked in the pizza oven. They have gluten free pizza dough that they bake on parchment.
Mario's Italian Lemonade, Taylor Street
Medici on 57th, Hyde Park - 1327 E 57th St, 773-667-7394 - no peanuts on menu but attached bakery uses nuts.
NYC Bagel Deli
Old Grounds Social,
Orange
Quartino Ristorante
Range
RJ Grunts
RL Restaurant - they can accommodate severe food allergies (peanut, tree nut) in their scratch kitchen. Just have to avoid the bread basket, but they make their own challah burger buns so no need to avoid sandwiches!
Safe House Chicago
Sushi Mon
Wildberry Pancakes
Wishbone, 3300 N Lincoln Ave. says all food is cooked from scratch "so they can make substitutions like omitting dairy or nuts". need to call for more detail. 773-549-2663
New York Slices (Highland Park) - totally nut safe. http://nyslices.com/index.php
