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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Chicago Restaurants that Accommodate Food Allergies

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

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