Gluten Freebird

I’ve been curious about Lilit Café for quite a while. The Bethesda restaurant functions as a deli, pizzeria, gelateria and beer/wine store. They also very prominently feature a gluten-free menu.
The menu isn’t anything extremely complex, but that’s what I was hoping for. They serve gluten-free crab cakes, grilled cheese, deli sandwiches, and pizza.
The gluten awareness [...]

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Restaurant Week is back. In years past, it was a week of $20-something lunches with $30-something dinners. Nowadays, the week is often 2 weeks or even a month and that dinner has become $35.08 rather than the expected $30.08. I’ve gone to more than my fair share of restaurant week meals (it was a part [...]

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This is a tale of a good treat and a bad treat. Both gluten-free and both from Kinnikinnick, but only one is worth eating.
Let’s start with the loser.
After a particularly raucous solstice party last weekend, I baked up some chocolate chip cookies from a bag of Kinnikinnick mix.
The mix had been hanging in my [...]

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I’ve only been navigating the gluten-free life for three months, but it feels like forever. That said, last night was a totally new experience in gluten-free dining.
In the lounge of one of Washington’s best, most highly rated restaurants, I ran into my first case of celiac insensitivity ( I call it Burgergate).
I asked if I [...]

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Travel back with me to Charlottesville where all eating seems to be much more mindful.
In this installment, we visit Revolutionary Soup. This tiny underground spot serving……soup in all flavors and textures. In true C’ville fashion, the spot features ingredients sourced from local farms (Polyface chicken sound good to anybody else out there?). When you order [...]

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Only since I stepped away from the gluten has everything that’s brightly colored and caloric looked so so good.

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