The Modern Cafe Nanaimo

Great for vegan and gluten free. Everyone loved their food. Staff super awesome. Will eat there again

I have an 8 year old with celiac disease. A server told me for sure there were safe options and that her mom is celiac so she understands. I asked over and over about everything and was promised it was gluten free. I wanted to go to the kitchen to watch them put the gluten free pasta in the pot but thought the staff wouldn’t appreciate it. I wish I did. I had a bite of it and it tasted like gluten but again I had asked so many times. 20 minutes later I am with my daughter in the parking lot puking her guts out literally. When she has had gluten she throws up until it’s bloody pieces of her gastric lining. This hasn’t happened in a couple of years because I am so careful. We arrived from Vancouver with bags of gluten free food and from our gluten free home- this was the first restaurant we went to here