What is Gluten Free at Bay Side?
At Bayside, we believe everyone at the table deserves to eat something genuinely delicious not just technically safe but also fun. That’s why we’ve put real thought and effort into our gluten-free offerings. These aren’t afterthoughts or plain substitutes. They’re recipes we’ve developed and refined over years to recreate the texture, taste, and satisfaction of the dishes you already love but without the gluten.
Many foods contain gluten but especially wheat grain, based foods. Many more foods have no gluten at all and are gluten-free foods. This includes vegetables, meat, cheese, other grains, legumes, mushrooms, eggs, milk, and candies. Many companies make claims about their ‘gluten-free’ products that never had any gluten in them and are in fact, expected not to.
When we use the terms “Gluten-Free”, “Gluten Free”, “gluten-free”, and “gluten free” we mean that we use an alternative to wheat with gluten in a food that such as bread or pasta that it is usually in.
Our alternatives are derived from experience based recipes that recreate the texture, taste and mouthfeel of the gluten containing foods WITHOUT the gluten!
We won’t stick a gluten-free label on every food but we will when we have optional gluten-free alternatives to our normally gluten-rich selections.
Check out our Gluten-Free selection below which includes bread, cookies, and pasta selections where we have offered gluten-free alternatives.
What 'Gluten Free' Actually Means at Bayside
We want to be clear about what we mean when we label something gluten-free, because this matters if you have celiac disease or a serious gluten sensitivity.
- We mean that we have replaced the gluten. When we label a bread, pasta, or baked item as gluten-free, we mean we’ve used a tested alternative to wheat flour not that the dish never contained gluten. Our GF breads use alternative grain or starch blends. Our GF pasta options use rice or corn-based noodles. Every substitution is chosen for taste and texture, not just compliance.
- We cook in a shared kitchen. Bayside prepares food in a professional kitchen where gluten-containing ingredients are also present. If you have severe celiac disease, please let us know when you order so we can discuss your options and take every reasonable precaution. We take food safety seriously and will be honest with you about any limitations.
- We don’t label naturally GF foods unnecessarily. A fresh fruit cup or a grilled chicken breast is naturally gluten-free — we won’t slap a GF badge on foods that never had gluten to begin with. Our GF labels are reserved for items where we’ve made a meaningful substitution.