We had seen the good reviews and TV program on "Check Please, Az" about this cafe. We also have a need for gluten free and organic. However, our overall experience was lackluster, at best, and honestly, our assessment of this Cafe is that is "smoke and mirrors".
When a restaurant advertises itself as "organic", there needs to be a requirement that said restaurant, in our opinion, offers a certain percentage of it's menu as organic. We found that little, if any, of the offerings at Tryst Cafe were organic on the day we visited. Not only were the organic offerings virtually non-existent, but GMO's were running rampant, and gluten free offerings were confusing, at best. For example, there was the mention of gluten free French Fries on the menu, but when the owner brought us the clearly battered fries, she cautioned us that they were NOT gluten Free. Then our server comes by and mentions that the fries have NO breading, and are just potatoes, but "a concern might be that they are fried in the same fryers" as the wheat stuff. What is a diner to think? What is a diner to do?
That said, we had traveled great distance to Tryst Cafe from out of the area, and with reasonable expectations for an "organic, gluten free" restaurant. However we both became ill following our experience, and one of us has celiac disease and can have NO gluten. It seemed pretty clear that there had been gluten ingested. Not a positive experience in the least! We will not be returning to Tryst.