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| - This review is strictly based on the gluten free menu. After being told the wait for Harry Buffalo was over an hour, my friend and I decided to try across the street at Romano's Macaroni Grill since they were the only restaurant nearby that didn't have a wait. In fact, the place had maybe 3 other tables with people that night. At any rate, after looking at the menu online and ascertaining that they had a gluten free menu, I decided I was hungry enough to roll the dice and give this place a try. In hindsight, I shouldn't have let my stomach do the thinking for me, and instead, just waited it out at Harry Buffalo. But back to my review. Yes, there is a gluten free menu, but if you are eating gluten free like I am for Celiacs or other health reasons, you should probably avoid this place. I did my usual speech with the waitstaff, "I have celiacs...gluten free...prepared separately...blah blah." Everything is going pretty smoothly. Then then bread starts coming out for my friend. It was a lot of warm, freshly baked bread. But I soldiered on with my Bibb and Blue without crispy onions, and it was a great salad. So far, so good, I was starting to feeling happy and confident. Then came my Fettuccine Alfredo with gluten free penne. Why did I have to order the pasta? Cross contamination in a kitchen that literally has macaroni in the name should probably have been expected. I knew pretty much by the end of our stay that something somewhere had gone wrong. So yeah, I wasn't surprised when I spent the rest of the night sick. If you need to eat gluten free, I would recommend giving this place a pass. There is just too much opportunity for cross contamination. Your stomach will thank you.
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