I've been waiting for five years for Carrabba's to offer gluten-free pasta and it's finally happened.
I just discovered this last week and when I checked with the company, they said it's been available at all Carrabba's Italian Grill restaurants since October.
When I was first put on a gluten-free diet, I read several surveys which rated Carrabba's as one of the best chains for gluten-free dining. But I always wondered why people seemed to like it when they didn't offer gluten-free pasta. The menu seemed very limited without it.
The restaurant's new menu includes a pretty good selection of items with a "GF" label, indicating it can be made gluten free.
The gluten-free pasta options are made with casarecce pasta, which spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts described as "a short pasta similar to penne or rotini made with corn, rice and quinoa flour."
I went last night and had a shrimp dish with a weesie sauce, which is a white wine lemon butter sauce. I really enjoyed it.
So yes, Carrabba's is finally high on my list of restaurant chains that offer satisfying gluten-free meals.
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Beware - I had a bad experience at Carrabba's with GF pasta. Fortunately, I noticed a differently shaped noodle before consuming. I called the waiter over (he was VERY accommodating, by the way), and he took it away and offered to have the dish remade. In the meantime, the manager came over and apologized, and went back to the kitchen to speak with the cook staff. The manager brought the remade dish out, and asked that I check before he walked away. Sure enough, there was a few pieces of wheat pasta mixed in the dish. Not sure if they were using a pasta pot for all pasta and not a separate pot for the GF, or what, but thankfully I noticed before eating anything.
ReplyDeleteAside from the pasta incident, however, I have always found Carrabba's to be very accommodating to my diet.
Beware - I had a bad experience at Carrabba's with GF pasta. Fortunately, I noticed a differently shaped noodle before consuming. I called the waiter over (he was VERY accommodating, by the way), and he took it away and offered to have the dish remade. In the meantime, the manager came over and apologized, and went back to the kitchen to speak with the cook staff. The manager brought the remade dish out, and asked that I check before he walked away. Sure enough, there was a few pieces of wheat pasta mixed in the dish. Not sure if they were using a pasta pot for all pasta and not a separate pot for the GF, or what, but thankfully I noticed before eating anything.
ReplyDeleteAside from the pasta incident, however, I have always found Carrabba's to be very accommodating to my diet.