Cuba Cuba Castle Rock

So this place is cute, has a great atmosphere and the food looks amazing, but I’m a Celiac so I have to be gluten free which is why I came here; because they said they could do gluten free, so that’s what I’m rating them on. If you’re not gluten free, disregard, but if you are gluten free, keep reading. I would NOT eat here if you’re a Celiac! (Or intolerant) They are not cautious enough to be safe at all! I got VERY lucky, but only by happenstance. (I’ll explain below) so if you’re not gluten free by choice, (ie. Celiac or intolerant) I would NOT trust this place! So there is no gluten free on the menu but they came up on google as having options and I verified at the door they could do it before letting them seat me. My waitress talked to the kitchen said they gave me 4 options I could choose that would be gluten free if they left off the plantains. So I ordered one of those and explained I was a Celiac and how important cross contamination was. When the dish came out they’d forgotten to leave off the plantains so she had to take it back and explain (again) how I can’t have anything touching gluten. Only then did they inform her that whole dish (not just the plantains) are contaminated so if I can’t eat anything touching gluten I could only do these two (other) dishes. Neither of which was one of the ones they started with telling me I could have. The wait staff and manager was apologetic, but clearly their kitchen does not care enough to support them, which means they can’t handle it. I only went ahead and ate because I was starving! And nothing else around was open. This was already the third place we tried. Very fortunately (and possibly miraculously) the new dish didn’t get me sick. It was a very simple dish of chicken with onions, white rice and black beans, and it was good, but unfortunately I will never eat here again because I can’t trust it to be safe.

Incredible gluten-free Cuban sandwich!