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PeiWei has been very good at using potato starch instead of wheat in my sweet and sour shrimp with rice takeout (call ahead and see if they'll do it), and they actually DO have a gluten-free soy sauce that they include, but I never used it.
Yeah. . . . .but then I'd have to eat at PeiWei (running gag, sorry)
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Originally Posted by lovebrentwood
Lilly's Pizza also offered gluten-free pizza this year; call to see if they still have it.
Unfortunately, Lilly's gluten free pizza dough tastes like a pie crust.
Would love to see a few more independent restaurants in Downtown WF, which would really help the revitalisation efforts. Cuisines preferred (in no particular order): Indian, Middle Eastern (esp Persian), French, Thai, Spanish, (good) Chinese, Afghan.
Beverages: Full bar, but as someone already noted, appropriate to the style of the cuisine.
Price Point: Affordable lunches, moderate dinners, but quality/uniqueness may provide some wiggle room.
Decor: Depends on the type of restaurant. Doesn't need to be fancy - the overall ambience counts for more. Definitely a bonus to have combination of indoor/outdoor eating areas.
Family friendly: We're not originally from these parts so not exactly sure what this means or implies. Should this be taken as chain restaurants and kid's meals? If that's the case count us out. However, family friendly could also mean that well behaved children would be welcome to come along, be well treated by a high quality staff team and perhaps enjoy a new culinary experience - if that's the case then family friendly works
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Point taken on the Gluten Free options....I also think a good selection of Vegetarian options as well as staff being aware of options for people with allergies is important.
I appreciate all the feedback...keep it coming, it's really helping
Family friendly: We're not originally from these parts so not exactly sure what this means or implies. Should this be taken as chain restaurants and kid's meals? If that's the case count us out. However, family friendly could also mean that well behaved children would be welcome to come along, be well treated by a high quality staff team and perhaps enjoy a new culinary experience - if that's the case then family friendly works
Family friendly doesn't have to mean chains but most of those normally are 'Family Friendly'.
It's more the dumbing down of the entire menu for the most part, bright lights, limited bar options, a tendency to rush people through their meals (since most families with small children don't tend to linger and talk over a meal) and a tolerance of loud children in general.
There are plenty of resturants that don't advertise themselves as 'family friendly' that certainly don't give the bum's rush to children, may have a few kid friendly items on the menu, but that just isn't their main focus.
Lilly's gluten-free pizza tasted like pie crust only when they ran out of wheat-free flour and used some kind of molasses stuff. I haven't been back recently, so I'm not sure if they went back to the non-molasses ingredients. I hope so. The first time I had it (without molasses), it was great -- certainly not as sweet tasting.
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Unfortunately, Lilly's gluten free pizza dough tastes like a pie crust
Re family friendly -- in my earlier years in Raleigh, I always thought Angus Barn was a "special" restaurant -- a place to get a little bit dressed up. I'd been there a few times. But a few years ago, we went on a Saturday evening with friends from work. I was shocked when we were in a room with the hay bales, and it was like Chuck E. Cheese. We could barely hear each other.
I couldn't believe the screaming kids running around. They were all young families (not a group, separate families). I never thought of Angus Barn as a restaurant for toddlers or kindergarteners, but I guess I was wrong.
My younger sister tells me these days nobody ever pays for babysitters, so I guess everyone brings their kids with them everywhere they go.
I like kids, but I'd like there to be a restaurant where they weren't all running around screaming. Maybe a separate room with a big TV screen would be good for them? And cages. Just kidding about the cages.
Instead of asking "Smoking or no smoking?" (which will soon be passe, I hope), the hostess could ask, "Screaming overtired whining children or NO screaming overtired whining children?" and direct the customers to the appropriate room.
We also always seem to be in restaurants during prom season, which is fun. But I feel a bit sorry for the kids all dressed up. They are always REALLY overdressed for the restaurant. Seems there should be more choices for "special" restaurants in Raleigh for such occasions -- and not everyone can afford Second Empire.
I guess if you're going to open a restaurant in Wake Forest, it would almost have to be kid friendly. Unfortunately.
Been living in different places that serve good food in Asia, gourmet cuisine in NY, LA and etc. When i came to Wake Forest, was a little suprise with the selection available. Enough with the fast food & defrosted meals serve in some restaurant. Would love to see some affordable gourmet style cuisine, goes with some good wine/beer/cocktail. Preferable a place to chat/date/dine/wine/. Good take out menu of course.
It would be phenomenal to be able to go to a restaurant and not worry about getting sick afterwards. To have a place dedicated to gluten free would have some extremely loyal customers. A whole gluten free restaurant that could be trusted - not a place that offers just a couple of things off the menu but has a majority of gluten products so the actual food doesn't get me sick but the cross contamination does!! That would be GREAT!!
It would be phenomenal to be able to go to a restaurant and not worry about getting sick afterwards. To have a place dedicated to gluten free would have some extremely loyal customers. A whole gluten free restaurant that could be trusted - not a place that offers just a couple of things off the menu but has a majority of gluten products so the actual food doesn't get me sick but the cross contamination does!! That would be GREAT!!
We went there a couple of weeks ago and had their GF pizza. Better than the GF pizza that we had at Lilly's, but it's debatable whether Lilly's had their normal GF crust that day.
Oh, and I can't see anyone opening a gluten-free restaurant. Why would anyone eat food that tasted like cardboard if they didn't need to?
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(running gag, sorry)
Absolutely - Gluten free!!
