I love visiting Atlanta because I can eat out, easily and safely for the most part, and have so many options. There are so many places with gluten-free menus and most places are familiar enough with the issue to know not to cross-contaminate. I love eating out in Atlanta.Two of my favorite restaurants are Com, a Vietnamese restaurant on Buford Highway and Pure Taqueria in Alpharetta or the Inman Park area.
Pure Taquaria in Inman Park (and possibly their other locations, I just haven't asked yet) fries their corn chips in a designated gluten-free fryer, therefore they have my loyalty for life or until they discontinue the designated gluten-free fryer thing. So far, that's the only Mexican restaurant where I can eat the chips, which I LOVE.
Com is the best Vietnamese restaurant I've ever been to, but a word of warning: Do not order the spring rolls. They will tell you that the spring rolls are wrapped in a gluten-free wrapper made from only rice and no flour, but will neglect to mention that it contains, among the cabbage, carrots and pork, a big stick of fried wheat-flour dough, which is, of course, delicious but extremely poisonous to those of us who cannot eat it and take the time to have a discussion with the waiter about the wrapper to make sure that there is no gluten that could harm us. Ugh! But that's the only negative experience I've had there. I love that place. Just don't order the spring rolls.
The fragrant rice and rice noodle dishes at Com and the sauce that comes with it are all gluten free. The stuffed grape leaves are amazing and, of course, gluten free. I have never ordered or even asked about the soups because soups are rarely gluten free (even when your server tells you it is). Broths usually have gluten.
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