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Today’s Washington Post Shopping Cart features a beautiful spring vision (click the link to see the picture): a Saint Honoré macaroon cake from French bistro-bakery Praline in Bethesda.
The cake is available in lemon, raspberry, pistachio, chocolate, vanilla, raspberry-lemon.
It’s thrilling to see “gluten-free” listed as the very first adjective for the cake! I’d be skeptical [...]

We decided to check out the much-acclaimed Art and Soul on Capitol Hill over the most recent Restaurant Week, which, I hate to admit was in February. It was Wednesday night so it was pleasantly busy but not completely packed. We started with cocktails and I had an absolutely divine Vermont maple syrup-infused martini that [...]

Friday night, fellow glutie Brooke and I decided to ditch our husbands and grab some grub in Arlington. After hemming and hawing over takeout or making some Bob’s Red Mill gluten free pizzas at my apartment, we decided to head out to Willow Restaurant in Ballston. It’s close by and we were hoping to split some [...]

We stopped into the California-born zpizza franchise on Washington Blvd. tonight (caddy corner from Tallula) to “see” for ourselves about their gluten-free friendliness. Note, that this is not so unrealistic: the zpizza corporate Web site touts the chain’s gluten-free options. Just visit the home page – you’ll see the ad.
The reason I felt like I [...]

Last Sunday, two of the three gluties (Brandi and Brooke) were at the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs’ “Crowning Cuisine” fundraiser at Willow Restaurant. (Mandy, we missed you.) The event was a blast. It was brimming with people and around every corner there were delectable finger-foods and free-flowing wine. Not a lot of the food options [...]