Author: Diane

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

Mentor, North Olmsted, Fairlawn, North Canton and Nationwide

bjsrestaurants.com

Gluten Sensitive Menu

Now in Cleveland and Akron area!
Mentor – North Olmsted – Fairlawn
and multiple locations nationwide

Diane writes:

I’ve recently been to BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse in Orlando, Florida and closer to home in Mentor and North Olmsted.

At each visit I had a tasty meal and can highly recommend the Kale And Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad and Fire-Roasted Barbacoa Chicken from the gluten free menu.

I was disappointed with the Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pizookie®: Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie with rich vanilla bean ice cream. Sounds great. But the serving I received was underbaked mush with a mediocre vanilla ice cream. Still, points for having this item on the menu.

The GF menu also has a GF pizza, entrees and sides. While the main menu says they have GF buns for burgers, burgers are not listed on the GF menu.

25779 Brookpark Road
North Olmsted, OH 44070
440-471-9140

7880 Mentor Ave.
Mentor, OH 44060
440-276-1360

3265 West Market St. Suite 85
Fairlawn, OH 44333
330-576-9480

6476 Strip Ave. NW
North Canton, OH 44720
234-401-0220

Look for other locations while traveling.

Vote For Your Favorite Gluten Free Menu

The cleveland.com “Best of” team is on the hunt for the best gluten-free menu in the Greater Cleveland area and needs your help to crown the winner.

The first round of voting will take place between now and Nov. 14 at 5 p.m.

Five restaurants will move on to the second and final round which will run from Nov. 15 at 10 a.m. through Nov. 21 at 10 a.m.

Here’s a link to the ballot:  http://www.cleveland.com/best/2016/11/vote_for_your_favorite_gluten-.html

Study of Allergen Advisory Statements

Gluten Free Watchdog, with the coauthorship of our own Dietitian Advisor Trisha Lyons RD. LD., has recently published the study “Allergen Advisory Statements for Wheat: NOT a Useful Predictor of Gluten Content”.

Gluten Free Watchdog statement.

You can read the full text of the article.

In the US, allergen advisory statements (“Made in a facility that also processes wheat” and similar) are voluntary and are not currently defined by any federal regulation.

What this study found is that products that have warning statements such as “May contain wheat” or “Made in a facility with wheat” might be without gluten and just fine to eat. On the other hand, the lack of a statement did not mean that a product was free of gluten.