Top 2 Gluten-Free Vegan Havens to Explore in Liguria

simona gastaldi

I've eaten here twice. Excellent environment: well-kept, with many tables; I recommend going early so you are served more slowly and there aren't many customers. For both lunch and dinner, the restaurant offers menus with various options, including gluten free. At lunch there are menus with offers (a first course, a second course....). If you spend more than 15 euros the cover charge is offered free! The portions are generous and the vegetables are fresh, cooked, in my opinion, like at home, that is, without excessive seasonings. Prices are very competitive. I tried the trofie with pesto with potatoes and green beans: absolutely excellent, to be savoured! The farinata is also superlative, with a gluten free option. A special dessert and lemon cream, a specialty created by the cook: truly delicious and light. When we come to Savona, we will definitely return!

Scarlet Fulton

La Grotta is an exceptional restaurant. My boyfriend is coeliac and they were more than accommodating. We had a fabulous charcuterie board to start which was out of this world. My pesto cream pasta for main was genuinely one of the nicest pasta dishes I’ve ever had. Aperols were flowing, service was top tier. Thank you

Ma LI

here is everyrhing glutenfree, icecream, brioche siciliana and crepes!!

Giulia Chindamo

Gluten-free pizza excellent for us celiacs, I have been frequenting this pizzeria for years. I don't feel like giving the maximum stars because yesterday I had a bad experience with one of the owners who, to convince me of the safety of his pizza (given the writing that they did not guarantee the lack of contamination on the menu) told me that his daughter has celiac disease and goes into anaphylactic shock. Celiac disease does not lead to anaphylactic shock and since I am also allergic to crustaceans and molluscs, I no longer felt so comfortable entrusting him with my true allergy after having understood from his sentence that he does not know the difference between allergies and celiac disease. Having said that, the pizza is excellent, but the topic should be studied when serving food.

Olga Trofimova

Great gluten free options! Nice location and atmosphere.

Marco Migli

Gluten-free paradise. It's worth a special trip for all the baked goods, from bread to desserts to the unsurpassed cream donuts

ANDREA MONTI

The place is very well kept, quite elegant and the waiters are friendly. They offer a complete gluten-free mune for celiac.

Raffaella Riba

Bad experience, little attention, a lot of rudeness and watch out for contamination ‼️ Introduction: it is not the first time we have booked at this place because for me, being celiac, the quality of the pizza is very high. However, I never expected the treatment I received this last time. We should have already understood that the evening would go badly from the moment we went there at 9.00 pm and discovered that our reservation had been lost in the hyperuranium. Our table for 6 people was still prepared but outside, without the foresight of placing a heating mushroom near us since it was 15 degrees. After an hour of receiving the order, nothing had yet been brought to us, not even 3 beers and 3 cokes (which also arrived incorrectly). After asking several times where our pizzas were and, seeing as we had been waiting for 2 hours in the cold, in annoyance they finally moved us inside, unaware that the worst was yet to come. At 11.30pm the pizzas finally arrive... all of them, except mine gluten-free. After about twenty minutes my pizza finally arrived...SPOILER: IT WAS WRONG. I had ordered a simple "margherita" and I was brought a "margherita 2.0" complete with parmesan, buffalo mozzarella and cherry tomatoes. Having alerted the waiter of the incorrect serving, the PIZZA WAS BROUGHT BACK TO ME AND IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT BACK WITHOUT TOMATOES (among other things, CONTAMINATED since they were taken away from me with sweet, beautiful hands contaminated by gluten). I FELT DEEPLY TAKEN OFF, so I got up to go and ask for explanations of my treatment. The manager, once again angrily, initially denied what had happened, trying to make me believe that their margherita pizza was like this (too bad they DON'T declare the ingredients on the menu... which is quite dangerous given the food allergies and totally illegal), then he turned to the chef with a "then make this margherita"... When everyone else had finished eating, I also managed to have my pizza. But it didn't end here... At midnight no one bothered to come and ask if we wanted a dessert or a coffee so we had to get up ourselves. Once we got to the cashier to close on a high note we were even told that we had been given a discount (a few pennies)…

E B

Excellent with gluten-free cooking

Emily Westra

Good gluten free bite. Portions were small but yummy. They only have a few options for gluten free pasta, but have gluten free focaccia sandwiches too!

Alessandro Vannozzi

Environment without character but the food is very good, ok for food intolerances, gluten free both pasta and pizza. Generous servings. I advise the pizza chef to wear a clean t-shirt!!!!!!

Greta Donelli

Fantastic place! Very kind staff, quality and tasty products. I took a gluten-free and lactose-free crepe and it was delicious. A nice little place in the center of La Spezia

Claudia Fradel

Excellent gluten-free pizza, we enjoyed it! Kind and pleasant staff. The terrace is a plus for being in the summer mood!

Michele illuzzi

Strategic place on the Genoa pier, very good but quite expensive pizza. Especially the gluten-free menu (1/3 of the menu for everyone) is scarce and very expensive... but as usual celiacs always pay more in money and taste of food. It would be nice to have the exact same menu also available in the gluten-free version given the price paid.

Ruggero Beglia

Very good dishes, good service, small and welcoming place, service for celiacs.

Dave g (Dave)

Excellent restaurant, near the old port, with traditional dishes and more. Many gluten-free options (and I'm not talking about the usual salad or steak, which are already gluten-free, I'm talking about pizzas, traditional first courses including trofie with pesto, or casonsei with walnut sauce, pizzas, second courses and desserts). I highly recommend the trofie with octopus and taggiasca olives, which I really liked.

Clara Vernaleone

Let me start by saying that my boyfriend and I didn't even taste the focaccia because we decided to leave after an extremely rude response from the owner. The gluten-free window had little on offer, so I asked the owner if anything else would be coming out in the next few minutes or not. In response, the owner, pointing to the ALMOST EMPTY window as if to demonstrate that I had all the choice in the world, in a sarcastic and annoyed tone, said to me "sorry, what did you expect to come out?" and he left without giving me the opportunity to order. Bad experience, I am consoled by the fact that, reading the other reviews, I seem to understand that this gentleman has given this kind treatment to several people.

Francesca Furfari

Let me start by saying that I know them very well. But finding a place that always welcomes you with a smile, always kind, is not always a given. And then you ask for lactose-free milk and they have it... ask for soy milk... oat milk... well what can I say they have to do with that. Gluten-free products. Well try it and you'll tell me I recommend it 😊

Asiah Delucchi

If you don't want to feel bad, go somewhere else. Mediocre "normal" pizzas, tasteless cereal pizza and gluten-free pizza that literally made you want to throw up, burnt underneath but raw, tasted like wet bread. I ate the first two slices because I'm against food waste but halfway through the second slice I had to leave it on the plate, it was eaten by others precisely so as not to throw it away. After about twenty minutes I had to go to the bathroom to throw up (and I went several times), the old waiter approached the table to eavesdrop on what we were saying about it, in all of this he had an arrogant and rude behavior for the whole evening, even before feeling bad. They went to ask to make me a tea because I felt bad from the pizza and I couldn't stand up and they even made me pay for it. Terrible experience, I'm surprised they're still open because all the celiac people I know have felt bad after eating there. There are plenty of other good places that don't try to poison you, do yourself a favor and avoid.

Maddalena Spelta

Friendly staff and excellent quality products to indulge in a gluten-free treat in complete safety... both sweet and savory! Highly recommended!

Paola Paruscio

Very good food, also with gluten-free opinions, fresh fish, appetizer served while waiting, very good even if gluten-free. Attentive and kind staff

Sara Novi

Dear Valentina, after months glued to the phone screen with my mouth watering looking at the photos of your delicacies, I have decided to give myself a gift and take a train from Pontedera to come and taste something from your bakery in Sarzana. And so here I am early in the morning inside your special place; obviously there was the counter full of wonders and your lively and very pleasant presence. I admit that I didn't say much because I was excited, but I bought many things to try: a slice of savory cake, some scones, a piece of vanilla and berry cake and a lemon and blueberry muffin. Everything was exceptional! The scones almost moved me, the flavor was almost identical to the ones I bought in an old bakery in my town when I was little, I ate them with a dear friend of mine outside of school and it really felt like I was going back there. Never eaten so good in eleven years of celiac disease! Not to mention the desserts: tasty, soft, abundant. No disappointments. The prices are absolutely honest and consistent with the quality of the food, I really hope to be able to return soon.

Barbara Zschetzsche

Very good gluten-free pizza and focaccia! Great service!

Matilda Bernardoni

I went to this Focacceria with some friends and we left really satisfied. Very beautiful and refined location. Very welcoming and pleasant environment and staff. Varied and satisfying fixed menus. Honest prices for the quality and quantity. Very attentive to gluten-free (possibility of eating a delicious focaccia made by them and amazing desserts). What can I say, a place to which we will certainly more than willingly return.

Lior Seidel

They were super accommodating and considerate of dietary restrictions with vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options

Johannes S

Perfect vegan restaurant, most dishes also available in gluten-free versions. Very friendly service and attractive interior design. And good music selection. Pleasantly manageable menu with a good price/performance ratio. So good overall that we went there twice in a row.

Tina Reindl

Super fast. We got our food in 10 minutes. Delicious. Gluten-free pizzas also available.

Bianca Guareschi

Excellent veggy choice even for celiacs!!!! Delicious potato gnocchi with confit garlic and basil on a bed of roasted pepper puree, delicious veggy bun with chips, crazy raw veggy cheese cake and delicious veggy meringue with mango foam 💥💥💥

Mariella Roveglia

I got the gluten-free Sicilian cannoli. Excellent.

Mel C

Ordered gluten-free pizza online, arrived early, very good. Experience to be repeated. It's difficult to find a good gluten-free takeaway pizza in Genoa, but now I've finally found the place

Ale “Ale”

We passed here by chance and I fell in love with this small, very personal place The girl who greets you at the entrance is particularly kind. Excellent food with a wide choice even gluten-free, I highly recommend!!!!!

Fabio Spagnolini

Found by chance while looking for a gluten free option, it turned out to be an unexpected and extraordinary discovery just outside the center of Alassio. The staff was welcoming, present and attentive without ever being intrusive. Every request was handled with a smile and great professionalism. The fresh fish is excellent, the service fast and with attention to the smallest details. The AIC certified gluten free is perfect in every respect: quality of the dishes, safety and attention from the staff. We ordered 2 appetizers, 2 first courses, a half second course (fried fish with vegetables and sweet and sour sauce), dessert and 2 waters, spending around €50 per person. Special mention to the fried food, the best and lightest I've ever eaten: a real PLEASURE for the palate! I would have eaten ten more! Heartfelt thanks to Sean for his hospitality and professionalism. We will definitely be back and will always recommend it!

Il King Del Senza Glutine

We ate very well, but there is a gluten-free alternative, but it's a pity about the burritos. A little expensive though.

Benjamin Olsen

Solid cuisine with the best ingredients, carefully prepared and lovingly presented. Attentive service. We will definitely come back!

Clarissa Bechini

Great gluten-free pizza

Domenica Muscatiello

I found myself spending a day on holiday and while enjoying a good ice cream I discovered the S. PIETRO ice cream shop where I was struck by the courtesy, attention and kindness with which Mrs Simona served me, moreover I had problems of gluten I found a vast assortment, excellent ice cream, "true" artisanal. I recommend it to anyone passing through Diano Marina, a must.