Gluten Free living

Stikky Spoon specializes in handmade Christmas hampers.  We make all our products with the highest quality ingredients from traditional recipes including the popular Stikky Spoon Christmas cake and the Gluten Free Steamed Christmas Pudding.  Noticing a need for more quality gluten free Christmas products in the market we have added a gluten free Christmas hamper, gluten free Christmas Cake and Gluten free Steamed Christmas pudding to our wide list of products.  If cakes and puddings are not your weakness we also have a chocolate box which is gluten free and also very popular.  We have been providing Christmas hampers for corporate clients, family and friends for the past 5 years.  If you are looking for a unique gift for someone this Christmas, Stikky Spoon will have the solution for you.

Sen Sen is a funny little cafe that my workmates and I head to at least once a week.  Beautiful fresh chinese food, with plenty of European takeaway favourites (but to be fair only the chips or omelette are GF on that part of the menu).  I was stressing about not being able to enjoy lunch with my friends, or being hugely restricted: but they came through! 
The lovely lady behind the counter picked up on my hesitation in ordering, and asked if I needed anything special - when I said no gluten she pointed me to 5 of the 7 smorgasboard options, and any of the rice dishes on the blackboard menu - I love the hot platter of ginger beef/pork/chicken and the chicken and cashew nuts!  They use only cornflour to coat sweet and sours/lemon chicken etc, and only potato starch or cornflour to thicken sauces: because, I was told, lots of people eat flour, get very very sick!!! 

So it’s a very casual cheap and cheerful chinese lunch, the staff are wonderful and I can keep having lunch out with my mates without inflicting my food issues on them!!!

My husband and I had been planning a really special night out for ages, to celebrate our wedding anniversary.  We saved our pennies and reserved a table at Martin Bosley’s.  Just after making the reservation I found out I needed to go GF - I was dreading cancelling the reservation!  But they were really happy to accommodate with some advance notice: we had a six course degustation menu with wine pairings, they confirmed my meal was to be GF on my arrival, they even brought in beautiful white bread to start with!  A fabulous night and I never would have realised I was missing gluten.  In fact another diner had an identical dinner to me, without requesting GF!  This is a very special restaurant, prices will confirm it’s not for every night out, but for a really special occasion it’s well worth it.  There’s a reason why it’s won so many awards!

Umu has a selection of gluten free foods to choose from. The staff told us they try to have at least 2 things to select from at anyone time. Their gluten free Raspberry Friands are the best ever. The pizza menu includes gluten free options. And they are relatively child friendly.

We are a new gluten free cafe in central Wellington. We are gluten free in every respect and also cater for those with nut and dairy allergens. ORA Cafe offers a large choice of sweet and savoury foods and is open 8am-4pm Monday-Friday and 10am-3.30pm Saturdays. We are hoping to meet the needs of Wellington’s gluten intolerant, and their friends and family.