This story is presented as part of The Stranger’s Guide to Food and Drink 2018: the Well-Done & Rare Edition, which features our favorites of Seattle’s most bountiful tastes, and where to find more elusive flavors, like gluten-free eats.
If you are gluten free for health reasons (and not because you’re following a fad, which, btw, you’re about four years late on), I imagine you are much like me: relentlessly searching for a sense of dining normalcy after cutting out an essential component of your diet. Quitting gluten was as hard as quitting smoking, and the results were similarly positive, in that I felt so good after stopping that despite all the ferocious cravings, I’ve continued for nearly three years.
But practicing self-control is no fun, especially when all you want is a goddamn sandwich. Though Seattle lacks abundant GF food options, it definitely possesses more than my former Florida home, and I now regularly visit many places in my eternal pursuit to eat like a regular person again, and get back those tastes I’ve missed since giving up wheat.
