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| - Graze used to be a normal restaurant where if you happen to have allergies or food intolerance, you could work around their menu. For some reason, this has all changed and this review should serve as a warning for those with allergies or who have celiac sprue.
The first most annoying thing happens when you let your Graze waiter/waitress know that you have an allergy and/or celiac sprue. "How 'severe' is your allergy?" is almost always the response - as if they have been coached to ask this stupid question. I will like to point out here there are no degrees of severity when one has an allergy. An allergy is a an allergy. By letting your server know that you have an allergy or a food intolerance, it is an attempt to take good care of your health, and really, not an invitation to discuss the severity of an allergy. (And if I am going to take a chance and suffer the consequences of not following a restricted diet as I should be, that is my choice and my business and not theirs.)
Let's take another pause here. Why does one with allergies, et al, even eat out at all (or have the audacity to eat out, which might be your view, or more likely, Tory from Graze's)? Well, thanks for asking. As you can maybe understand, eating out creates a nice break from cooking at home. Cooking is a lot of work. It takes thinking, planning, shopping, manual labor, careful choosing of ingredients - and let's not forget the washing of pots and pans, and dishes afterwards. So, eating out every now and then is a very nice treat, and may even be inspirational for more cooking at home.
Back to my problem with eating at Graze, or any of the other restaurants of Tory Miller's. I have celiac sprue, which means I cannot eat anything with wheat, oats, barley, or rye. Eating any of these things will cause problems to my health. The only cure for celiac sprue is to not eat any of the things previously mentioned. In addition, I am allergic to nuts and peanuts - but we will talk about this a little later. Today, I went to Graze for brunch, not that I wanted brunch - but brunch is what it was to be. The only thing I could order on the menu was an egg scramble with a salad and potatoes, for $12. I really wanted the Chilaquiles - but I was informed that the corn chips aka tortillas are deep-fried together with the beignets. I mention to my waitress my allergy restrictions and then I order the egg scramble. Well, apparently, the potatoes are also deep-fried in the same oil as the beignets. I ask her if they can make the potatoes a different way - I don't need fancy. After all, if I can order hash browns at your less fancier restaurant than Graze - surely they can cook up something with your most simple food, a potato. Well, apparently, they cannot - even though they have a huge kitchen and are supposedly cooking food back there - and they also cannot have a second and separate deep-frier for gluten-free foods - such as the corn tortillas, because really if one were to order gluten-free in a restaurant, ordering something with corn tortillas should be a no brainer - but seems to require brains at Graze (frying the corn tortillas with the beignets and the potatoes doesn't sound very tasty in my opinion, if you were to ask me). So, I ordered the egg scramble with an extra helping of the salad, which for $12 is not a sufficient substitute for the potatoes.
There really is nothing safe to eat on their menu if you have allergies - 95% of the menu has the potential to be contaminated in their wonderful kitchen in the back.
Oh yeah - and the peanuts and my allergy to them, along with so many other people who have peanut allergies. Apparently, Tory is thumbing his nose at people with allergies and has absolutely zero compassion or understanding for people who suffer from them. He has the audacity to fry his food at Sujeo in PEANUT OIL! Yes, folks, peanut oil.
Hey, Tory, you may think this is a new trend - as a restaurant, to not accommodate your customers however, it is not very alternative of you to blatantly have a complete lack of concern for people with disabilities (I am talking about allergies here, because at least for me, the consequences are disabling) as much as your mohawk is not alternative anymore.
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