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A Gluten Free Adventure in Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR http://glutenfreern.com/a-gluten-free-adventure-in-vancouver-wa-and-portland-or/ http://glutenfreern.com/a-gluten-free-adventure-in-vancouver-wa-and-portland-or/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:04:51 +0000 Nadine Grzeskowiak http://glutenfreern.com/a-gluten-free-adventure-in-vancouver-wa-and-portland-or/ Several months ago, I purchased tickets for the July 11th THE POLICE and Elvis Costello concert at the Clark County Amphitheater, just north of Vancouver, WA. My lovely husband, Brad and I drove up to Portland from Corvallis after work. We planned to eat dinner at Andina, a fabulous restaurant that my 12 year old daughter, Hannah and I ‘discovered’ a few weeks earlier. Brad and I both agreed it was one THE GREATEST meals we have ever eaten, gluten free or not. We were presented with an entire Peruvian gluten free menu on arrival. I choose the ‘Conchas Senor De Sipan’ aka scallops and Brad’s main course was the special of the day, Filet Mignon…WOW! The food was incredibly flavorful and very well presented. DO NOT, under any circumstances, miss out on dessert! I opted for the ‘Plato De Creme Brulee’, not one, not two, but three lovely cups of the flavors of the day: vanilla, guava and chocolate, oh my! Brad chose the ‘Flan De Queso De Cabra’ , which was quite rich and fabulous. Andina is located at 1314 NW Glisan, Portland, OR. 503-228-9535. Reservations are recommended, but not required. I would be happy to carpool up for a meal at any time! I would love to have an Andina sister restaurant here in Corvallis…STRONG hint! Please please please please….think about it.

The concert was great! Not often enough do I get to sing/yell songs from my young adulthood with 30,000 other middle-agers (ouchhhh. I can’t believe I just had to write that)… Our friends, Deb (GF) and Frank, met us at the concert, with plans to stay overnight in Vancouver. Let me just mention, we are all too old to stay up until 2 am, but we did! Saturday morning we met for coffee, then headed to Lingonberries Market located at 6300NE 117th Ave., Vancouver, WA 98662, phone 360-260-7459 or 866-420-4411, www.lingonberriesmarket.com .

Kids in a candy store. For those of you who don’t already know, Lingonberries Market caters to the gluten free and food allergy crowds. There we were, four adults gleefully shopping for gluten free food! Harold graciously answered all of our questions and allowed us to photograph ourselves fighting over boxes of GF cereal. We filled up 3 sacks with totally SAFE food and it didn’t take us hours to shop. Thank you Dee and Harold for setting the standard for GF shopping. The Lingonberries Market brochure pointed us in several directions for lunch…

We decided on the Corbett Fish House located at 5901 SW Corbett, Portland, OR, 503-548-4434. Our waitress was very fun and helped us make several gluttonous, NOT glutenous food decisions. The menu utilizes rice flour only, so all of the soups, chowder, french fries, sweet potato fries(YUM!), and fish are all GLUTEN FREE. Another big WOW! The Hawthorne Fish House is their sister restaurant and is located at 4343 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland OR 97215, phone 503-548-4434.

FYI: The restaurants noted above do very well at accommodating GF diet requests; however, they are not strictly GF eating establishments. I ate extremely well at both mentioned restaurants without any problem. Please make sure you verbalize clearly to your server that your food and drink must be GF. If there are any questions, ask to speak to the chef/cook. Be your own advocate and enjoy some of the best GF restaurant meals in Portland.

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