Philly - Center City Restaurants?

[amybeth]

Anyone know of a restaurant in center city that serves both vegetarian and gluten-free food? It's short notice, b/c we're going out tomorrow night, but I thought I'd give it a shot.....(we would prefer a non-chain restaurant)

[savvvyseller]

You could try My Thai (around 22nd and South). The chef is familiar with gluten-free issues. My son had the pad thai there and it was excellent.

[NJKen]

Anyone know of a restaurant in center city that serves both vegetarian and gluten-free food? It's short notice, b/c we're going out tomorrow night, but I thought I'd give it a shot.....(we would prefer a non-chain restaurant)

If you like risotto, you can eat at Upstares at Varalli (or their street-level restaurant, which is in the same building and called Sotto Varalli). It's on Broad Street, just across from the performing arts buildings and next to a hotel--I think a Doubletree. Their website is at: Open Original Shared Link

The menu does not say "gluten-free", but I've eaten there a couple of times since my diagnosis and checked with the server about the risotto dishes each time.

If you go for Thai food, make sure that there's no oyster sauce in anything. (Everyone here knows about soy sauce, but oyster sauce seems to get overlooked.)

Ken in NJ

[luvs2eat]

I've had very good service and food at El Vez, one of the Steven Starr restaurants. The wait staff are most helpful and the food is out of this world!

[lpellegr]

This is from a Philadelphia Inquirer article about eating gluten free, from 3/23/06. Try Buddakan, Django, The Fitzwater Cafe, and Radicchio in Center City; Rx and the Marigold Dining Room in West Philly, and Margaret Kuo's in Wayne. The article says that these are willing to provide gluten-free menu choices. Also try My Thai. This article was about Ross Cohen, who came up with the Triumph dining cards.