After accepting that you can no longer have regular break, pizza, pasta and all that other good stuff you then realize that you also can’t have other things because of contamination. I remember thinking, “It’s all OK, I can still have french fries at fast food restaurants, eat lots of sushi, I should be all good.” Then you find out that soy sauce has wheat and french fries are fried with other breaded stuff and contaminated. Well, there are a few places we can go have fries! For a nice meal, Brick Tops uses a dedicated fryer for their fries so you can enjoy a great burger, bun-less of course, and fries. Chick-fil-A also uses dedicated fryers. So, while they might not really be good for you, they are gluten-free. Enjoy!
Mmmmm French Fries! We can have them at Brick Tops!
September 14th, 2008
7 Comments
After reading this post, I went to Bricktops and I was told that the fryers are NOT dedicated and that the fries are not gluten free. Very disappointing. I like to go to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for french fries (and burgers without the bun). They only fry potatoes so there is no risk of cross contamination.
Hi Lee, sorry about that, I was told they were. Just goes to show that we always have to be checking! thanks for the heads up about FIve Guys!
My husband and I ate at Bricktops for my birthday recently, and we were told that they actually have a “fry machine” that they fry nothing else in. I didn’t eat the fries at that time, so, I don’t know for sure about their being GF, but I plan to try them when we go back.
Our server was also very accommodating, and made sure that everything I ordered was gluten free. It was a good experience.
Hi Amanda and thanks for letting us know! I never got an email response from them and haven’t been back recently. That is what I was told when I was there though and that since nothing else was fried in it that it was in fact gluten free since they did not add anything else to it.
I love french fries. So, after I read Amanda’s post, I decided to give Bricktops another try last night. I thought perhaps my waiter was mistaken last time when he told me I couldn’t eat the fries. I told the waitress about my gluten intolerance and I asked her specifically about the fries. She said they are NOT gluten free. She said fries are one of the few things they don’t make in house. The fries come in a box and they have a coating to make them crunchier. She said the box clearly says the coating on the fries contains gluten.
I was disappointed that I couldn’t eat the fries, but I still had a great meal. I had the chicken salad (without the wontons) and deviled eggs for an appetizer. It was really good.
I am from Ohio and am in town visiting my sister. She was looking at this site before I came to get some ideas of where we could go. She knows I love frys and was really excited to see this post. We went there and our server said their fries are NOT GF. They dont have a dedicated fryer. Also they have “Homemade Potato Chips” on the gf menu, but actually they are fried in the same fryer as breaded things; they said they needed to change the menu. This scares me that this info was on their menu though!
fries!