Five gluten free Brisbane eateries you need to try
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It isn’t easy being gluten free, but these top coeliac-friendly places around Brisbane certainly make life a whole lot easier, and more delicious.
Merak GF Redland Bay
As one of the only Celiac Australia certified restaurants in Queensland, it should come as no surprise that Merak would top this list.
The venue’s philosophy is “there’s room for everyone at our table”, focusing on giving those with serious allergies or intolerances the opportunity to indulge in wholesome and delicious “home cooked” meals.
This family-owned and operated restaurant has lovingly created an all-encompassing menu that is exclusively gluten-free, with everything from light bites, big breakfasts and loaded burgers to tapas, pizzas and even cakes and dessert boxes.
This cafe also has a range of GF groceries on top of their menu offerings.
55/133 Broadwater Tce, Redland Bay
Flour Leopard Woolloongabba & Chapel Hill
With two venues across the Brisbane region, this exclusively gluten-free venue is setting the bar high.
Flour Leopard, tucked away inside Market Organics in Woolloongabba and Chapel Hill, has a menu that appeals even to the least gluten free among us, let alone those who are the experts in properly good and coeliac safe dining.
In particular, the hot cakes and waffles here put most wheat filled versions to shame, with options like Honey Nut (complete with toasted almonds, Cornflake crumble and a burnt honey milk sauce) and Korean Chicken’N’Waffles.
And as for looks, everything is served as the perfectly Instragrammable plate.
16 Deshon St Woolloongabba, 620 Moggill Rd, Chapel Hill
Frankie’s Smokehouse Woolloongabba
While not an exclusively gluten-free venue, everything bar the bread on the menu at Frankie’s is gluten free, with the staff well and truly coeliac aware.
A recent addition to the menu sees gluten-free diners not missing out on the carb-y aspect of the menu, with a corn tortilla option available in place of bread.
The menu champions only the best mouth-watering meats, cooked low and slow in house smoker, Frankenstein, all served as part of plates or platters or atop loaded fries.
We hear the onion rings are to die for, and if you actually want to “die by food coma”, their $380, 3kg platter of meat, beans, fries, onion rings, corn tortillas, corn, pickles and jalapeños, is an option.
719 Stanley St, Woolloongabba
Rita’s Teneriffe
You know a venue has your health in mind when the only non-GF item on the menu has its own dedicated cooking space.
If funky fresh tacos, offering a spin on the classics, is what you are craving, then Rita’s is the place to go.
Almost the entire menu here is gluten-free, and for the one item that isn’t, the fish taco, the kitchen has done the most to ensure coeliac safety, giving it its own fryer.
Even our vego friends are well-catered for at Rita’s.
The venue itself is not one to be missed, from the outside it oozes all the brick-woolstore vibes the riverside suburb of Teneriffe is known for.
There’s also a huge number of specialty margaritas to try.
36e Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe
The Tasty Pocket Wynnum
Step out of the city and head to the bayside for the perfect Santorini vibes and quality gluten-free friendly Greek bites.
The Tasty Pocket is another incredible venue doing the work to make our gluten-free friends feel welcome, and well fed.
Most items on the menu are gluten free, save for the pita, some desserts and the pockets themselves, and the kitchen is beyond equipped with separate fryers.
Aside from being some of the most welcoming staff on Brisbane’s bayside, they also have great coeliac awareness and are quick to assist.
While the venue is a little bit, well, little, it makes up for its size in all its pale-blue and white, olive-tree adorned charm.
159 Bay Terrace, Wynnum
Originally published as Five gluten free Brisbane eateries you need to try
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