Dear All,

Does anyone have recommendations for places to eat in Basel which do gluten free food?

Also, can you buy gluten free food in supermarkets?

Thanks!

L x

Have a look at this thread and this one.

There's a fair bit of stuff in supermarkets and health-food shops.

Restaurants that have gluten free food in Basel:
Latini (Falknerstrasse 31): gluten free pasta, in all the Bindella restaurants (in Basel there's only Latini)
Tibits (Stänzlergasse 3): gluten free bread and plenty of vegetable-fruits dishes

Gluten free products are sold in Coop, Migros, Müller, Reformhaus

I hope it helps!
Bye

Morena

Hi
We've just recently moved to Lausanne. I've found a health-food store named Dumas that has a fairly large range of gluten free foods (pasta's, breads, cakes and crisp-breads etc). Our local Manor store stocks pasta and flour. Finally our local pharmacy stocks pizza bases and breads.
I'm sorry this is not Basel specific. I'm hoping the information may cross-pollenate and that there are stores in Basel as well as Lausanne .

Hi there
My sister in law is visiting tomorrow for a few days and has recently discovered she is Gluten Intollerant. Does any body know anywhere in the Zurich area that i can buy gluten free products. Just bread will be fine...so she doesnt starve!
Thanks

There's a shop on Seefeldstrasse about the level of the Kreuzstrasse tram stop which sells gluten free products. Can't remember the name of the place but they usually have gluten free stuff advertised on a blackboard outside the shop.

I don't live in Zurich, but any Reformhaus (health food shop) should sell gluten-free bread and pasta, as a minimum. Some Migros MMM stores and the largest Co-ops do, too. And if you want to pay a fortune, Globus stocks GF bread.

Merry Christmas!

reformhaus = health food store...you're looking for the shelf with the 'Schär' brand stuff - all in yellow packages -
http://www.schaer.com/en/

Also, coop has their own brand - 'freefrom'...in german 'glutenfrei'.

What does she like to eat for breakfast ? We find that the trickiest meal. Eating out is OK if you stick to boiled potatoes (fries are sometimes dusted with flour and crumbed/battered stuff is off the menu).

I'd put eggs, bacon, fruit, berries, yoghurt, chocolate and berries in the fridge, and also rice cakes/rice crackers are good - they usually store them near the eggs and bread and I can recommend the chocolate coated ones - YUM...

Potatoes, Rice and Corn are all naturally 'gluten' free so make salad, vegetables and meat dishes and serve them with rice or potatoes as a side dish. Avoid sauces unless you are sure they are GF...soy sauce for example contains wheat.

Hope that helps...our son has been gluten-free for three years now (coeliac) and we've built up a long list of 'yes' foods - easier than talking about the 'no' foods...

Coming from Australia, the rice crackers and gluten-free breads from Schaer are far superior here - she may actually be pleasantly surprised. We store ours in the freezer and my son likes to toast it or make it into 'toasted sandwiches' with cheese and ham - he has his own 'gluten free' toasted sandwich maker...

I have also seen this products in a dedicated aisle across the border in German supermarkets but I am not sure how close you are to them.
I agree : a reformhaus is your best bet and they have yummy cookies gluten free

Just a note that if your sister-in-law is gluten intolerant, and not actually coeliac, then it won't be the end of the earth if she accidentally eats a little wheat/barley. She may feel some discomfort (bloating) and the, ahem, after-effects may not be pleasant for those around her, but you won't kill her. But please do check that she isn't coeliac.

swisspea's advice, above, is excellent!

Humble apologies . I've just been made aware that I forgot to include that Dumas is in Morges. It's on the Grand Rue just across from Manor.

Go to any South Indian/Lankan restaurant and pretty much everything except the roti (bread) will be gluten free (made from rice or lentil flour).

Sushi is always good too... as long as you bring your own GF tamari sauce

We've found a nice (but fairly pricey) sushi restaurant in Ouchy
(Ichi ban- Avenue d'Ouchy 58)

I love pasta but have been cursed with a serious gluten intollerance (celiac disease). In Sydney I was able to buy GF fresh pasta and gnocchi in Haberfield. I know I'm clutching at straws here but has anyone heard of anywhere I can get it here? The GF pasta here is really ordinary.

I'm willing to make the sacrifice of a trip to Italy if required

not sure about the pasta, but you can get gluten-free flour from the Coop

of, course, you'll have to make the pasta yourself, but it may be an alternative?

I've considered it, but I've never attempted fresh pasta and don't have my lovely 'italian mama' friend here to give me lessons... Then again the husbands away next week so it's not really going to matter if I spend 5 hours in the kitchen resulting in an inedible, unholy mess and eating cereal for dinner!

Do you have any pasta making tips?

buy a machine and make it

pasta is so easy to make and it beats hands down what you can buy in the shope

the basic recipe is 200 gr white flour, 2 whole eggs, 1 egg yolk and 1/s tsp salt. this gives you about 300gr of pasta (you can scale it up to requirement). the exact quantities depends of the type of flour, the size of the eggs, humidity in the kitchen yap yap yap.... start with the basic and then adjust...

if you have kneaded before, the process is the same, otherwise you can chek out this link, you'll have to forgive the naff music

Don't bother with resting the dough before rolling it, from experience it makes no difference

don't roll it by hand, get yourself a machine (about 30fr in Migros). Rolling by hand (unless you know what you are doing and practice long and hard) is difficult because you are likely to end up with thicker and thinner spots that make the cooking time inconsistent and you'll end up with undercooked and overcooked pasta in the same plate

you don't need to dry pasta before cooking it, but you need to dry it if you want to store (once it's dry it'll curl up, bit like the corners of an old sandwich, you can gthen freeze for a month or so, chuck it in the boiling water straight from frozen)

I love fresh pasta. And I'll give cooking it a try. But there's a difference between having the equipment and knowing how to use it!

Don't you have to use a particular strength of flour etc?

Try a reformhuis, you can buy gluten free pasta and other goodies there, bit on the expensive side though. In Germany you can buy this pasta in supermarkets. Good Luck!

BTW: I have a huge package of gluten free flour that I can give you for free if you need, my mother in law forgot to take with her for my little nieces.