Traveling Gluten free for 9 days, while staying at a
different place each night makes for an interesting trip. You can’t always rely
on Find Me Gluten Free, as I had no service for portions of the trip, even with
3 providers between the two of us we were in total cellular dead zones, so some
preplanning is necessary when traveling. We did 9 days of mostly eating out and
eating junk food with no stomach issues and only 1 dicey hotel stay! I’d say
over all it was a successful trip. I couldn’t have imagined how pretty the
coast of California is, and honestly we could have spent even more time on the
coast in California but we wanted to get to Seattle. We had to omit Portland,
sadly I didn’t get to Ground Breaker Brewery, but I know where to order their
beer! We did however make it to Ghostfish which was pretty awesome.
The first 3 days were intertwined with my New Hubbies family
since we were in Los Angeles for his cousins wedding. After flying in we went
to his aunt’s house for dinner. We were pleasantly greeted with 2 frozen
Saffron Road Entrees!
We laughed, most people would be annoyed to go to
someone’s house for dinner and be handed frozen entrees. I was thrilled cause I
didn’t want to insult her that I was apprehensive to eat something not knowing
how she prepped it. She was quite proud of her accomplishment to find me safe
food. We hit up Target to get ourselves some snacks for the trip and hit the
hay. It had been a long day of work, travel and family. We got up Saturday and
looked thru the app and saw a place in Agoura Hills, Hugo’s. Looking at reviews
there were so many options and everything is made from scratch and farm to
table. The menu was overwhelming. There were so many options. I wanted to get
the French toast but was worried about CC since my hubbie got the Green Tamales
and eggs, which were marked (GF) but the server said it wasn’t Gf… I got the
Desayuno Fuerte. – I learned I like Poached Eggs. We had turned off highways on
the GPS so we took a wonderful drive thru some beautiful canyons and mountains.
The wedding we were going to was a generic buffet so I was glad I brought some
Kind Bars to hold me over while enjoying some cocktails and mingling and
meeting more of his family. We did make a mandatory In-N-Out Burger run on the
way back to the hotel. As we walked out we looked at each other and went
“In-N-Out?” Love when he reads my mind! My Protein Style burger and cheese
fries totally hit the spot!
Sunday we hit up “The coffee Bean and Tea Leaf” for some
morning coffee before heading to his cousins house for a surprise party. The
same aunt who got the frozen entrees the first night in town made sure to drop
off some frozen GF entrees for me again! (She’s too sweet!!) I’d brought some
snacks, not sure what was being served. She was worried about us being away
from home and not knowing where grocery stores were, I was set! We ducked out a
bit early from the party to start our trip up the coast, but not before taking
lots of family photos! We made it to Santa Barbara before sunset and looked up
some options on FMGF. The Hoffman Brat House looked tasty so we ventured over there.
The menu looked good and they had Gluten Free Fried Pickles, Gluten Free
Corndog nuggets listed. Upon talking to the server they don’t have a dedicated
fryer….. Ugh. I questioned it after we sat down and were waiting for him to
come over cause a reviewer said she had opted to NOT get the fries when she
found out the fryer had been cross used so it wasn’t safe that day. So I asked
and he inquired and told us “no we don’t have any dedicated fryers.” Thanks
FMGF, and crappy reviewers. At least there were still options on the menu since
it was getting late, we’d already ordered drinks and man was it cold out that
night! We got some bacon wrapped dates, (Not marked GF but verified gf) and a
brat on a GF bun and a side of pickles. Cute town, good food, bustling despite
the cold weather. That rounded out the first weekend for our trip.
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| Bacon Wrapped Dates, Sign me up! |
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| Gluten Free Brat on a bun and pickles - Yum! |
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