In Chadds Ford,
Brandywine Prime (1617 Baltimore Pike, 610-388-8088) has a
gluten-free menu that includes steaks, entrees, appetizers, salads and raw bar choices.
At
Fountain Restaurant, located at Center City's Four Seasons hotel (1 Logan Square, 215-963-1500), gluten-free items are noted on the menus.
Miller's Ale House, with local spots in Northeast Philadelphia (9495 E. Roosevelt Blvd., 215-464-8349), Willow Grove (2300 Easton Rd., 215-657-0515), Langhorne (2250 E. Lincoln Hwy., 267-572-0750), and Mt. Laurel (554 Fellowship Rd., 856-722-5690), has updated its
gluten-free menu, which now includes pizza.
Also updating its
gluten-free menu is
Uno Chicago Grill, which has added Udi's gluten-free burger buns to go along with three kinds of pizza and other items.
New items on the gluten-free menu at full-service
Legal Sea Foods locations, such as the one in King of Prussia (680 W. Dekalb Pike, 610-265-5566), include fried fish-and-chips, shrimp, oysters, calamari and French fries.
Not to be left behind,
P.F. Chang's is adding new desserts to its menu starting next Wednesday, and this includes a flourless Chocolate Torte topped with a ganache and served with fresh mint and raspberry sauce. No word yet on whether this replaces the flourless chocolate dome currently on the menu.
Pure Tacos in Center City (1935 Chestnut St., 215-496-9393) just introduced Taco Tuesday Social Networking specials with the limited-time Steakhouse Taco: achiote-marinated steak, topped with pepper-crusted mushrooms, house-made scallion cream, and crunchy, Cajun-spiced frizzled onions. Up next: a Thanksgiving-themed taco. Those who follow Pure Tacos on
Facebook and
Twitter will get word of the newest varieties.
Melt Down Grilled Cheese is
opening its newest location in Delaware, at the former Post House site
in Newark (145 E. Main St.), on November 26. Like those in Wayne and
Montgomeryville, the First State outpost will prepare grilled cheese
sandwiches using gluten-free bread.
The "Dishing With ..." segment returned on Tuesday with a
Q-and-A with reporter Diana Rocco of CBS3 Eyewitness News. Read about how she manages eating gluten free on the road and her favorite restaurants in the city.
The Little Bakery, the all-gluten-free bakery out of Blue Bell, will be sampling its products this weekend at
B'tween Friendz in Dresher (today and Saturday), the
Landis Supermarkets in Telford and Harleysville (Saturday) and
Rittenhouse Market at 18th and Spruce in Philadelphia (Sunday).
Sampling in New Jersey this weekend is
PJ's Beef Steak. You can try the company's gluten-free beef steak slices and tenders this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the ShopRite on Evesham Road in Cherry Hill and at the Mt. Laurel ShopRite on Union Mill Road. On Sunday, PJ's will be sampling at the Marlton ShopRite and the Garden State Pavilion ShopRite, both on Route 70, during those same hours.
As a reminder, there are two fundraising events next week to benefit the
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, one on each side of the Delaware River. Present the
special voucher at dinner at the Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia)
Iron Hill Brewery on Monday, November 12 and the restaurant will donate 20% of your food bill to the NFCA. Iron Hill has extensive gluten-free menus for
adults and
kids.
The Pop Shop in Collingswood will host a fundraiser on Thursday, November 15. When you bring
this flyer and dine in for any meal that day (8 a.m. to 9 p.m.), the restaurant will donate 15% of your total check to the NFCA.
The Children’s Celiac Support Group's next meeting will be on November 18 from noon to 2 p.m. at the
CHOP Specialty Care Center in Voorhees. Children of all ages are welcome. Each family is asked to bring a gluten-free Thanksgiving dish and recipe to share. RSVP by November 15 via
email or by calling 215-590-2985.
For those who live or work near Medford,
Raynor Electric is coordinating a
donation drive (food and personal items) all this month for those affected by Storm Sandy. Gluten-free food is welcome.
Wow, that's a lot of info for one week. Enjoy what should be a relatively mild weather weekend!
- Michael
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