Monday, April 16, 2012

Restaurants catering for coeliacs? Gluten-free groceries?

We shall be in Berlin at Easter with a group of friends including a teenager who is a coeliac. Anyone know of cafes and restaurants which cater for coeliacs? Or of a website with listings?



I know we can study menus closely and ask lots of questions (and I can cook too) but but I would like him to be able to eat more than salad and chips when we are out !




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I hope the following will help you (if you can%26#39;t read German, tell me and I%26#39;ll translate the essential details):





zoeliakie-treff.de/zoeliakie/zoeliakie104.ht…





www.qype.co.uk/de300-berlin/tag/glutenfrei




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I hope the following will help you (if you can%26#39;t read German, tell me and I%26#39;ll translate the essential details):





zoeliakie-treff.de/zoeliakie/zoeliakie104.ht…





www.qype.co.uk/de300-berlin/tag/glutenfrei




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We have found it helpful to have a written explanation of what celiac/coeliac is in German to give to the waiter/waitress. Please copy and paste the link below to get a free restaurant card.





www.celiactravel.com/restaurant-cards.html





We also make it a point to find a grocery store to buy snacks. Reformhaus is the German word for healthfood store. Berlin should have more than one. I have never been to Berlin. Do any of the department stores have health food sections?





We will be traveling in Berlin this summer, so if anyone else has any gluten-free recommendations, I would appreciate it.




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Thanks for those. Unfortunately Zoeliakie-treff I am %26quot;unauthorised to open%26quot; so can%26#39;t pursue that one at the moment. Any suggestions how to get into it?



Both I and the boy involved speak fluent German so deciphering menus and asking questions is no problem. The bakery Diafana will be useful when we are near Museumsinsel and I will check out the supermarkets and Reformhäuser and Bioläden(and will report back).



I shall be flying in from UK and have already discovered Tesco%26#39;s gluten-free and dairy-free ranges so will be taking corn spaghetti, bread, sauces in the luggage. It%26#39;s the problem of meals out I%26#39;m trying to crack esp. in the centre near sights (Mitte and Charlottenburg).



By the way Asterope, the first line of the restaurant card should read %26quot;Ich leide an einer Glutenunverträglichkeit%26quot; (The G got missed)




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Hello,





There are many supermarkets that have glutenfree products in Berlin. You can find them in all the Bioladens (eg. Biolüske, Alnatura). Edeka markt also has some glutenfree products. A restaurent Diafana as you already know provides glutenfree products. Drogeriemarkt %26quot;dm%26quot; also has some range of glutenfree things.



I hope it was useful. Have a nice trip.




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Thanks. I will bear those places in mind if I have to do it again (it was Easter last year!).



We managed OK last time with pasta and a sauce from England plus what I cooked from scratch.



Meals out at Diafana, a Maredo (he had steak) and the Mövenpick near Sanssouci palace. And he did hand over the cards which they took to the kitchen.



I also bought a loaf at Diafana but if you pre-order there%26#39;s more choice from them.




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I hope for you that Diafana is not closed - last time that I was in the region, the shop hall was in renovations.




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Yes Lylou, I%26#39;ve just tried to look at the website and %26quot;Keine Beiträge vorhanden%26quot; so it does look like it%26#39;s closed now.





I had a query re Edeka branches to help any future searchers here. Rosemary do you know if Edeka in Friedrichstrasse station or the one near Hackesche Höfe stocks gluten-free products?



These would be useful addresses as they are so central on tourist routes. I sometimes shop at the Edeka at Friedrichstrasse en route from the airport to our apartment (use the tram).Obviously I can check this out on my next visit but flying into SXF won%26#39;t be till late April trip.




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Hi,





I %26amp; am taking my parents (1 of which is a coeliac), to Berlin this Christmas %26amp; was wondering if anyone could recommend any more restaurants, cafe%26#39;s %26amp; supermarkets?





I will take the cards, but prefer to have the knowledge before entering an establishment.





Cheers, Andy




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This website might help as it is in English. Though it doesn%26#39;t list restaurants, it does give a lot of information for those traveling in Germany.





http://www.dzg-online.de/english.41.0.html

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