Gluten-free accommodating restaurant recommendations

Eating out is one of the hardest things to cope with, when you have coeliac disease or any other type of food allergy/intolerance. After a lot of painful trial and error, here is a list of recommended restaurants which are pretty much nation-wide which accommodate well for gluten-free food.

1. Døgnvill burger

• http://www.dognvillburger.no/
• We eat here with many allergies and intolerances (coeliac disease, milk-protein allergy, soya intolerance, onion intolerance and garlic intolerance). They were amazing! They could make pretty much any meal on the menu gluten-free. Their chips are sometimes cooked in the same fryer as the non-gluten free onion rings, but they instead cooked them in the sweet potato fryer which is gluten free! They also had vegan and gluten-free meals, and GLUTEN FREE VEGAN DESERTS which I have never found before! They tasted amazing and we got the desert on the house as we were out on a birthday celebration :-)

2. Egon

• https://www.egon.no/
• https://www.egon.no/menyen
• Egon is the typical family restaurant in Norway, for young and older people! They are extremely accommodating. Whilst their chips contain traces of gluten as they are fryed in the same fryer as the onion rings, they will replace them with beautiful local boiled potatoes with oil and seasoning if you ask. They have wonderful milk-free and gluten-free burger buns (note that their regular non gluten free burger buns contain milk). You can have naturally gluten-free meals such as fish or chicken, or you can make a meal gluten free e.g. the burgers. They also have gluten free pizza! Check out their really helpful interactive menu online (https://www.egon.no/menyen - this is also the second link above) and select 'Allergier'. Then you tick off which allergies you have and it provides you with the meals you can eat!

3. TGI Friday's

• https://fridays.no/allergener_produkter/
• https://fridays.no/matallergi/
• https://www.tgifridays.com/
• As with any restaurant, their menu might differ slightly from restaurant to restaurant/country to country but overall TGI Friday's is a good place to eat, especially if you have smaller children. Although their menu is not as varied as the other two restaurants mentioned above, they are still highly accommodating and their food tastes great! I recommend the burgers (but that's just my opinion)! 

4. McDonalds

• https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no.html
• https://www.mcdonalds.no/content/dam/Norway/menu/dokumenter/Allergitabell.pdf
• Ok, so maybe not the most healthy choice, but McDonald's in Norway are very accommodating. Their chips are gluten-free, and their burgers have gluten-free burger buns. The chefs also change their gloves and hats to minimize contamination. Even though this might not be the case everywhere, it certainly is for a lot of areas. It is also easily accessible and cheap.

5. Pizzabakeren

• https://www.pizzabakeren.no/?gclid=CjwKCAiApdPRBRAdEiwA84bo30CKhtw-pMbocqqHP9AjQAC5f66j7-QksEvdovd8aeyylqAaU3e9kxoCS3AQAvD_BwE
• https://www.pizzabakeren.no/menu.php?id=12
• If you like pizza, this is the place to go! Despite only having the gluten-free pizza in one size, here they are very acommodating and adhere to all of your needs. They can make any of their pizzas gluten-free. Again, the chefs change aprons, hats and gloves and have a seperate area for the gluten-free pizzas. They come in seperate boxes so they do not touch other gluten-containing pizzas. Of course, if you are severely reactive, I would be careful as all of the pizzas are in close proximity of each other. However, if you can tolerate traces of gluten, 'spor av' - in Norwegian, you should be ok!