I am lucky in that I know a very very clever developer. He has taken the google map on which I place reviews of all the coeliac restaurants in Cardiff and made it mobile friendly.
I have been test driving this for the past few weeks and it is very handy because using my Android phone, I can identify my location and find the nearest coeliac friendly place. Plus it has raised awareness because restauranteurs see immediately how good / bad I think they are for coeliacs.
The map shows a coloured star for each reastaurant with a colour scale showing how good the reviews are for each venue, which in general will be:
- Red dot : no coeliac menu, unhelpful / unknowledgable staff.
- Orange dot : no coeliac menu, a lack of knowledge amongst staff but helpful.
- Yellow dot: no coeliac menu, but knowledgeable and friendly staff.
- Green dot: advertises as a coeliac place, coeliac menu, very knowledgeable and helpful staff.
When you click on a star, you’ll be shown the details of the restaurant, with the address, contact details and website. You can also browse through the reviews that other people have left and any pictures they have submitted.
A Restaurant Review
This app is in its early stages so at the moment you can add a review of an existing venue straight from your phone, but you will need to email in the details of a new venue to get it onto the map – but we’re working on this!
If you want to place your local restaurants and coeliac friendly places on the map then please go to http://www.icanteat.co.uk/ There will also be a web / iphone friendly version soon. Right now we need more testers so please download it for free from the android market place if you have a compatible phone, or look at the website for more info. http://www.icanteat.co.uk You can also let me know if you have any feedback / reviews.
Hello, I don’t know if you know my shop, I am in Fairwater, and have a great range of food, pasta to pasties, pies pizza, pastry, puds, my delivery of eclairs is Thursday this week, other cakes and stuff in Weds, bread in Thursday also, I also sell lasagne, gnocchi, parmigiana and lots more.. If you have not been call in it would be great to see you.
In London I would give Cotto 5/5. It is an Italian pizza and pasta restaurant. The owner is a coeliac and several members of his family work in the restaurant, including the chef who is one of his sons. Another son is the head waiter. Just about everything on the menu is or can be gluten free and the restaurant has a separate kitchen for gluten-free meals. Cotto are in Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo, opposite Lambeth North tube station on the Bakerloo Line and within walking distance of the South Bank’s major attractions such as the London Eye and the Old Vic. It is also conveniently situated close to the Imperial War Museum, St Thomas’ Hospital, County Hall, St George’s Cathedral and Waterloo mainline and tube stations. Several bus routes pass near the restaurant – more details including opening hours and phone number (booking is advisable especially for Friday and Saturday evenings) on their website: http://www.italiancotto.co.uk.