London Restaurant Guide
London is a dream for Coeliacs. No matter where you are staying, you are not far from an entirely gluten free restaurant. That might be a pleasant shock if you are from a a less gluten friendly country. The existence of 100% gluten free restaurants means that you are likely to find types of food that you thought you were never going to eat again or at least never going to find in the supermarket. Doughnuts, onion rings, fried chicken, waffles, tortellini, fish 'n' chips are just some of my favourite finds in London - check out below for some restaurant suggestions.
100% Gluten Free Restaurants
Utter Waffle
A completely gluten free restaurant with two locations in South London that specialises in the most delicious waffles with a range of toppings, from peaches to fried chicken, bananas to apple crumble, there's something for everyone!
Nearest Tube: Herne Hill or Balham
Price per person: £20-£25
Booking required: It's recommended
Dogs allowed: Yes!
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Club Chicken Waffle or James, Jules & the Giant Peach
Wheelchair Friendly
Los Mochis
A Mexican-Japanese fusion restaurant with two locations in Notting Hill &
Liverpool Street. It boasts a large menu of sharing plates, meaning you can try a wide range of dishes like maki rolls, ceviches, tiraditos, and tacos.
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street or Notting Hill
Price per person: £60-£80
Booking required: It's recommended
Dogs allowed: Yes!
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Churros, tacos & crispy rice!
Wheelchair Friendly
Paladar
A Latin-America restaurant, serving fresh and vibrant cuisine with a mixture of sharing and large plates. Definitely recommend sharing with whoever you are eating with so you can try a bit of everything. Do not miss the cocktails, they are gorgeous.
Nearest Tube: Elephant & Castle
Price per person: £60-£80
Booking required: It's recommended
Dogs allowed: Well behaved and mid-sized pooches allowed
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Churros, empanadas, tapioca & cheese croquettes
Niche
Niche is the oldest gluten free restaurant in London, serving all sorts of gluten free goodies. They regularly switch up their menu but always keep they famous NFC 'Niche Fried Chicken', a cult classic. They also offer a gluten free roast on a Sunday.
Nearest Tube: Angel
Price per person: £50-£70
Booking required: It's recommended
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegetarian & low FODMAP available
Recommendation: Parmesan Doughnuts
Wicked Fish
A completely gluten free fish 'n' chips shop located in Spitalfields market. Serving everything from fish, oysters, lobster, mushy peas, whitebait, sausages & squid, you can find all yours favourites, completely gluten. Please note, they have another location in Hackney that is NOT gluten free!
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street
Price per person: £15-£25
Booking required: Walk ins only
Dogs allowed: Outdoor seating available
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free & Vegan options
Recommendation: Battered sausage, Haddock, Gravy, Chips (& gluten free vinegar)
Guasa
Guasa is one of the many stalls within BoxPark Shoreditch, and offers a full gluten free menu of Venezuelan arepa, bowls, sweet corn dough balls & yuca fries. The Arepa's are huge, but you've got to make room for those cheesy dough balls, I'd eat them anyday!
Nearest Tube: Shoreditch High Street
Price per person: £10-£20
Booking required: No, walk in's/takeaway only
Dogs allowed: No!
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Cheesy dough balls!
Urban Greens
This is a great grab-and-go lunch spot with several locations across central London. They make salad bowls, filled with goodness, usually with some sort of carb so that they are nice and filling. There is plenty of flavours to choose from, or you can make your own. It's nice to have a spot where you can pick your ingredients without risk of contamination!
Locations: Kensington, St James's Park, Canary Wharf, St Paul's, London Wall
Price: £10-£12
Wheelchair Friendly
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegan, dairy free options available
Recommendation: Beef Saigon
Eat-in or Takeaway
Juno Omakase
London's smallest omakase restaurant is entirely gluten free! Located inside Los Mochis Notting Hill, this 6-seated Omakase experience will leave you on an entirely different planet. Focused on sustainability and organic, seasonal produce, the chefs will explain each dish, the ingredients, and the inspiration behind each one. Omakase means 'I leave it to you (the chefs)' so it is a set menu, with 15 courses. It's a wonderful experience that I am so glad is gluten free!
Nearest Tube: Notting Hill Gate
Price per person: £180
Booking required: It's required. They are often booked out for weeks in advance. You can also only book for 2 at a time!
Other Dietary Requirements: Celery & Nut Free
Recommendation: Enjoy the wine pairing if you so wish!
Taca Tacos
A Mexican restaurant with a few locations in South London, but it's their Peckham location that's 100% gluten free. It's delicious, and they routinely update the menu with monthly specials and flavours. It's a casual dining place, great for a catch up with friends over a taco & margarita or 3.
Nearest Tube: Peckham Rye
Price: £20-£30 per person
Booking: Walk in's and bookings ok
Other Dietary Requirements:
Vege options available
Recommendation: Buffalo Fried Chicken Taco
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Restaurants with Gluten Free Options
Please note: I only share restaurants that I have found to be safe for those with Coeliac Disease. This means I go and ask questions about the prep area, how things are cooked, whether there is a separate fryer etc.
However, as processes and staff may change, please make sure to ask questions and decide for yourself whether it is suitable.
If you find that a restaurant I have added to the blogpost is no longer safe for coeliacs, please contact me and I will investigate & remove if necessary.
El Pollote
A restaurant just off Carnaby Street that serves Latino fried chicken that's naturally gluten free. Most of their menu is gluten free, they have separate friers, and have always taken care with cross contamination. They also serve fried chicken filled arepas, popcorn chicken, wings, and fries.
Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus
Price per person: £20-£25
Takeaway available!
Dogs allowed: Unsure, but there is outdoor seating.
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free options available
Recommendation: Guava glazed fried chicken set
Takeaway available
Ugly Dumpling
Another restaurant just off Carnaby Street, Ugly Dumpling has a range of gluten free dumplings that are made and prepared separately from their gluten friends. They have quite a few options too, making sure gluten free people are also overwhelmed with choices from classic flavours like prawn & chive and pork belly, to more unusual ones like cheese burger & curry paneer!
Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus
Price per person: £20-£25
Booking required: Walk ins & Booking allowed!
Dogs allowed: Unsure, but there is outdoor seating.
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian options available
Recommendation: Cheeseburger & chicken satay dumplings
Takeaway available
Cotto
A traditional Italian restaurant that's run by a family, 2 of which have coeliac disease. Nearly everything on the menu can be made safely gluten free, and their knowledge of cross-contamination is outstanding. The serve a huge menu of pasta and pizza, as well as classic desserts like tiramisu, and you will be well looked after - the service is wonderful.
Nearest Tube: Waterloo
Price per person: £25-£35
Booking required: Walk ins & Booking allowed!
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian options available
Recommendation: Carbonara
Alex Dilling at the Hotel Cafe Royal
This is a two michelin star restaurant in the heart of the city, that has designed a menu with gluten free customers in mind. While it's not completely gluten free, most courses are or just need a slight adjustment - they even make a selection of fresh gluten free bread daily. This is a set menu, with the choice of 5 or 7 courses, and the option to add a wine tasting along side your meal. It is an incredible once in a life time experience, that I was invited to try and something I would definitely recommend if you are wanting to experience gluten free fine dining.
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Price per person: £200-£400
Booking required: Bookings only.
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Email to enquire.
Wheelchair Friendly
Okko
A Japanese restaurant on Broadway market that secretly has a huge amount of gluten free items on their menu, including ramen! I have found them very good with allergens, and they even have gluten free soy sauce on tables. It can get quite busy, but that just emulates a Japanese Ramen restaurant anyway, and in the midst of winter being tucked up next to people eating ramen is truly the cosiest thing.
Nearest Tube: London Fields
Price per person: £25-£35
Booking required: Walk ins & Booking allowed!
Dogs allowed: There is outdoor seating available.
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Ramen & Sushi
Hobson's Fish & Chips
A traditional English chippy with three locations in London all offering gluten free fish & chips. They have separate friers, and make their own gluten free vinegar to sprinkle over your chips.
Nearest Tube: Charing Cross, Oxford Circus, Paddington
Price per person: £15-£20
Booking required: Walk ins & Booking allowed!
Dogs allowed: There is outdoor seating at some locations available.
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian & Vegan options available
Recommendation: Fish & Chips lol
Takeaway available
That Wing Place
A nearly completely gluten free chicken shop, where all their fried tenders, wings & chips are safe for coeliacs. In fact, the only gluten they have on site is burger buns & croffles, but they do carry gluten free buns as well. This has fast become my favourite takeaway place, the tenders are just TOO good.
Nearest Tube: Holloway Road
Price per person: £10-£15
Booking required: No, just walk-ins!
Dogs allowed: No, but most people order for takeaway
Other Dietary Requirements: DF available
Recommendation: Korean Chilli Tenders
Takeaway available
Korean Bistro Bibida
A Korean Bibimbap restaurant that have a couple of gluten free options, including gluten free Korean Fried Chicken made in a separate frier. If you've never had Bibimbap before (firstly, me neither - it's hard to find gluten free) it's served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul and gochujang, meat and sometimes an egg. It's supposed to be eaten all mixed together!
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Price per person: £8-12
Booking required: No, just walk-ins!
Dogs allowed: No, but most people order for takeaway
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian available
Recommendation: Korean Fried Chicken Bibimbap
Takeaway available
Mattarello Bolognese
This is an Italian restaurant with a dedicated prep area for gluten free food. Not only that, they hand-make all their gluten free pasta so it's super fresh and tasty. Mattarello is also accredited by Coeliac UK, which means they have been checked and approved according to coeliac standards.
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street
Price per person: £20-£35
Booking required: Walk ins & Booking allowed!
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian available
Recommendation: Gluten free fried bread & tirimasu
Third Culture Deli
A vegan deli located on broadway market with gluten free options. However, I've popped them on the restaurant list because they run supper clubs which are mostly, if not totally gluten free! Their last one was an Italian supper club, and they tend to collaborate with local chefs to design the menu. Check which supper clubs are coming up on their instagram account!
Nearest Tube: London Fields
Price per person: £40-£60
Booking required: Yes, for the dinner clubs
Dogs allowed: Unsure for the dinner club as it's a small space but they do have outdoor seating
Other Dietary Requirements: Always vegan
Recommendation: Gluten free pandan tirimasu
Chateau Chiswick
Located on Chiswick High Street, Chateau Chiswick is a restaurant offering classic breakfasts & brunches, and Lebanese dinners. I recently went for dinner and had an array of mezze, all made gluten free. The owner was very reassuring about preparing food and reducing cross contamination, most of the menu is gluten free or can be made gluten free as well!
Nearest Tube: Turnham Green
Price per person: £25-£40
Booking required: Yes, especially on weekends
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegan available
Recommendation: Falafel, and any of the desserts
The Fox Shoreditch
A pub in Shoreditch that offers gluten free fried chicken and nuggets. Perfect for an after-work drink, as they also have gluten free beer available.
Nearest Tube: Old street or Shoreditch High Street
Price per person: £10-£20
Booking required: Yes, especially on weekends
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy Free Available
Recommendation: Falafel, and any of the desserts
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Jam Delish
This is a vegan restaurant in Angel serving plant-based versions of traditional Jamaican foods such as saltfish, jerk chicken, and rice & peas. They have a separate fryer, and a well labelled menu - I would suggest going with someone that would be keen to share plates with you are there is a lot you'll want to taste!
Nearest Tube: Angel
Price per person: £40-£60
Booking required: Bookings & walk-ins allowed
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Everything is plant-based
Recommendation: Jerk "chicken" skewers & grilled "codfish" and callaloo fritters
Terra Rossa
An Italian restaurant with two locations in Angel & St Pauls, they have an extensive gluten free menu with pizza, pasta, mains & desserts. They tend to ask if you have coeliac disease, which is a good sign. Please note, some gluten free meals will take a bit longer to cook as they prioritise safety.
Nearest Tube: Angel or St Pauls
Price per person: £30-£50
Booking required: Bookings & walk-ins allowed
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegetarian marked on the menu
Recommendation: I enjoyed their pasta but I think I'd prefer the pizza!
Bill's
A chain restaurant with Coeliac UK accreditation and a huge gluten free menu. It's reasonably priced, with a few locations in central London, I would imagine it would be super useful for families & kids!
Nearest Tube: London Bridge, Covent Garden, Soho
Price per person: £20-£30
Booking required: Bookings & walk-ins allowed
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian, & vegan marked on the menu. They do have an allergy appendix available
Recommendation: Korean fried cauliflower
Arancina
A pizza restaurant in Notting Hill that makes their own fresh arancini balls that just happen to be gluten free. They are made, cooked, heated, and kept separately, as well as handle with separate tongs.
Nearest Tube: Notting Hill Gate
Price per ball: £4.50
Booking required: Walk ins only
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Vegetarian avaiable
Recommendation: Any of them!
Ceru
A gorgeous middle eastern restaurant with a 99% gluten free menu (everything apart from the pita!). They serve mezze style with small and large plate designed for sharing. Every dish is packed with flavour, it's hard to recommend anything in particular! Probably one of my favourite dinners in London.
Nearest Tube: 2 locations, Queensway or South Kensington
Price per person: £40-£60
Booking required: Bookings recommended
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, halal, vegetarian available
Recommendation: Calamari, Watermelon Salad, Lamb, Eton Mess!
The Bach
A New Zealand cafe on broadway market who's menu can almost entirely be made gluten free. A perfect spot for brunch, serving all sorts from open sandwiches, toasties, eggs benedict, vegetarian breakfasts, plus they even have a cabinet of food - lots are packaged seperately and are gluten free. Let them know you are coeliac when ordering (if applicable lol)
Nearest Tube: London Fields
Price per person: £15-£25
Booking required: Bookings & walk-ins ok
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegetarian, vegan available
Recommendation: Toasties!
Browns Brasserie
A restaurant chain that's accredited by Coeliac UK. They have an extensive menu but at the time of writing I have only been to their afternoon tea, which is reasonably priced and pretty delicious. Book before you go and let them know you are gluten free!
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden, Tower Hill, Bank
Price per person: £27 per afternoon tea
Booking required: Booking required
Dogs allowed: No
Other Dietary Requirements: Unsure
Recommendation: The scone!
Dark Sugars
A chocolate shop on Brick Lane that creates beautiful truffles & specialty chocolates that are naturally gluten free. When I was there, all of the flavours were gluten free, so there really is too much to choose from. They also do the most incredible hot chocolates - a must try on a cooler day.
Please note: they do have oat milk (which is not gluten free) so let them know your dietary requirements when ordering hot drinks.
Nearest Tube: Shoreditch High Street
Price per hot chocolate: £5.50
Other Dietary Requirements: They have dairy free/vegan chocolates but there would be a risk of cross contamination
Recommendation: Hazelnut prailine hot chocolate
Oatis
A lovely cafe near Hyde Park that serves sweet and savoury porridges that are made with gluten free oats. While not everything is gluten free, the things that are, I think, are super delicious. Do not miss their pancakes which are all made gluten free as standard, and can be made vegan as well. They also have great matcha & CBD peach tea!
Nearest Tube: Queensway
Price per person: £8-£12
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegan options
Recommendation: Pancakes & Pink Lady Porridge
Tandoori Lounge
If you've been craving Indian, you have to visit Tandoori Lounge. Honey, the owner is a coeliac, and she has spent so many years refining the menu & educating the chefs on how to make coeliac safe North Indian food. This is a proper experience in Punjabi cuisine, and everything was a totally different palate of flavours.
They reserve half the tandoor for gluten free naan only, and don't cook anything else while the gf naan is in there. Honey mentioned that they can also do it in a separate cooking area too if you are more comfortable with that!
Nearest Tube: Hornchurch
Price per person: £30-£40
Booking required: It's recommended
Other Dietary Requirements: Dairy free, vegan options
Recommendation: Gluten free naan, samosa, kulfi, special lamb
Ukiyo Handroll Bar
An intimate Japanese sushi restaurant that specialises in hand-rolled sushi. It's a new restaurant in Covent Garden that is 90% gluten free - owing to their use of gluten free soy sauce as standard! I love sushi & sashimi, and this was really a very tasty experience. I don’t often talk about the ambience of a restaurant, mostly because I find them all quite overwhelming - but Ukiyo is a very minimal & calm space, with earthy colours and a high ceiling, seating only 16 at a time.
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden
Price: £50-£100 per person
Booking: Bookings essential
Other Dietary Requirements:
Dairy free options
Recommendation: Handroll sushi set
Hana Korean Restaurant
Hana Korean Restaurant is one I’ve been meaning to go to for a while, having had so many people recommend this palce over the years. Honestly I was skeptical - it’s not often I come across gluten free Korean, let alone one that’s made safely! But I finally headed there, and was absolutely blown away. They have a massive gluten free menu, with all the gluten free items cooked separately. This is one I'll be visiting a lot!
Nearest Tube: Clapham Junction
Price: £20-£30 per person
Booking: Walk in's and bookings ok
Other Dietary Requirements:
Vege options available
Recommendation: Yang Yeum Fried Chicken & Aubergine Bibimbap
The Queens Crouch End
This is a pub in the Brunning & Price Chain - who tend to be pretty good for gluten free food. However, The Queens goes above and beyond, offering gluten free pub food like beer battered chips (yes, battered with gluten free beer!), sticky toffee puddings, and most importantly - Dunday roast, complete with bottomless (GF) yorkshires & roast potatoes!
Nearest Tube: Hornsey
Price: £25-£35 per person
Booking: Bookings recommended for Sunday lunch
Other Dietary Requirements:
Unsure
Recommendation: Roast Beef Sunday Lunch & sticky toffee pudding!
Meltdown Cheeseburger
A fabulous burger joint located in an indoor market in Canary Wharf that can make everything on their menu gluten free! They have gluten free buns, that can be toasted separately, and everything else is naturally gluten free.
Please note, they do have other locations, but only this one is currently safe for coeliacs!
Nearest Tube: Canary Wharf
Price: £10-£12 per burger
Booking: No, it's an indoor market
Other Dietary Requirements:
Vegetarian available
Recommendation: The Original Meltdown Cheeseburger
The Lion and Unicorn Kentish Town
This is a wonderful pub in Kentish Town that is top tier for gluten free roasts and have taken great care to make sure gluten free people feel included in all of their menus.
Almost all their roasts can be made gluten free, and they have the most incredible (and massive) Yorkshire puddings!
Nearest Tube: Kentish Town West
Price: £25-£35 per person
Booking: Bookings recommended for Sunday lunch
Other Dietary Requirements:
Unsure
Recommendation: Lamb roast & sticky toffee pudding!
The Telegraph Putney
For yet another Sunday roast, the Telegraph in Putney has got you covered. Another Brunning & Price Pub that has loads of gluten free options on the menu including a vegetarian pie, which is what I ended up getting last time. This is also the perfect pub for if you are feeling like going on a long walk and then want a big meal. The Telegraph is in Putney Heath, but we actually walked all around Richmond park first. Usually full or deer, we saw none!
Nearest Tube: Putney (then a 25 min walk)
Price: £25-£35 per person
Booking: Bookings recommended for Sunday lunch
Other Dietary Requirements:
Vegetarian
Recommendation: Pie & sticky toffee pudding!
Venchi
Not a restaurant but one of my fave spots for a little wee sweet treat. Venchi has loads of stores all over London, and they are all stocked with some of the best chocolates - the ultimate pick & mix.
They also do the thickest, most chocolately hot chocolates in the world which I'm convinced are simply melted chocolate in a cup!