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Niagara Falls Eating Out


EmmaQ

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EmmaQ Rookie

HI

We're traveling to Niagara Falls in a few weeks. Any suggestions on safe and friendly places to eat? I so hate being told they won't serve us! It's like the liability policy have arrived and every restaurant out there is rude now. I just want a salad without bread crumbs or onion rings and you can't just take them off.

Anyway, the its a PITA to eat out, but we do it on road trips.

I wonder if we will come into problems crossing over into Canada with our van full of gluten-free foods for the trip there and back home. I hope not.

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Tim-n-VA Contributor

I asked a similar question about a year ago and got a lot of suggestions. If the link doesn't work, seach for Niagara Falls in the travel section.

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lorka150 Collaborator

Are you just staying in the falls, or travelling elsewhere (NOTL, St. Catharines, and so on). I live in the area and can point you to some places.

EmmaQ Rookie

Thanks.

I'll come back when I know where we are staying.

brittanny Newbie

i live niagara falls and ive been there quite a few times.

swiss chalet has many choices. i order the quarter chicken dinner with a baked potato and you can even have the dipping sauce!

the keg are also very nice about celiac. call ahead of time or ask your server. i got a spicy chicken dish from there, but i guess when the waiter checked it had gluten in it. they came out and told me they were going to make me something special and they did! they made a different sauce just for me. i felt so special haha!

even go on websites, i know montana's and swiss chalet have a whole allergen menu thing on their website. good luck! and you'll love niagara falls :)

EmmaQ Rookie

Hey,

We're staying on the Canadian side of things. At an indoor water park hotel system, like Great Wolf, but not Great Wolf.

I'm going to have to stop in a grocery store as well b/c we are planning on breakfast and lunch in our hotel room. I'm not sure if anything will be disallowed crossing the border.

lorka150 Collaborator

You can easily bring food over the border - pretty much anything except for citrus fruit (meat and plants are also a little difficult sometimes). just make sure you claim it all - I do a lot of my grocery shopping in the states and cross quite often.

There are some better restaurants not right in the falls area, but as the previous poster said, those places are familiar. There is an Outback right beside the casino and they have the gluten-free menu.

If you go into NOTL or other regions, there are some great places. Are you planning going out of the falls?


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