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it. I'm not kidding. There was an asterisk indicating items with soy sauce in them. Soy sauce has gluten in it. I double checked with the waiter to clarify what the menu meant (I thought that they must mean tamari, since why would gluten-filled soy sauce be on a GF menu???) and he checked with the kitchen. Those items do indeed have dark soy sauce with gluten in them..."So WHY are they on the gluten free menu?" I asked him. His response was that if I wanted to be safe then I just shouldn't eat them - no explanation as to why they were on my menu...It was clear that our server had never been trained on food allergies and what is safe/unsafe for customers with various issues. Restaurants that have gluten free menus but whose staff know nothing about gluten make me very, very nervous. So eliminating all the of the notated dishes on the GF menu left me with approximately 3 dishes that were safe to eat... To be honest, the best part of my whole meal was goat cheese butter spread that came
with my loaf of GF bread. Our group of 6 ordered about 8 dishes and all of us were underwhelmed by the experience. Eating at Girl & the Goat was such a disappointment for me. I have eaten at a number of restaurants that don't even have gluten free menus and have felt more accommodated. At no point did a manager or someone from the kitchen offer to step in and assist our floundering server answer my questions. If I wasn't so shocked and upset and flustered, I would have asked to speak with one of them. My suggestion to G&tG would be to get a consultant who knows what they are doing to look over their menus and create an accurate gluten free menu. Then train your servers on that menu and how to answer questions for customers who have food allergies. This place is probably one of the most Yelped about restaurants in the world. As a result, the reviews are a little all over the place, and generally depend on one thing: expectations. The Girl and the Goat is NOT a fancy restaurant. It'
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Except one dish... the roasted cauliflower. Seriously. How can roasted cauliflower be so freaking DELICIOUS??!! It's a bulbous bland bunch of white.... that exploded with flavor bite after bite. Other standouts included the octopus (so tender!), corny bread and empanadas. The skate wing was in a too-rich-for-my-blood cream sauce, but wifey loved it. The only downfall for her, though, was the SURPRISE! chili flakes nestled between some bites... being that she doesn't do spice, it was an assault on those tender taste buds, so some time had to pass before she could resume the good chow. I definitely recommend Girl & The Goat. And while we didn't have ANY goat, or any beef... pork... meat-things, it was a fantastic experience. And vegans - fyi, they have a vegan menu if you ask! For the two of us with 5 small plates, dessert, two beers and one glass of wine it came out to $50/each. I think that's a damn good price for one of America's most-talked about restaurants. I love Top Chef and
I think Stephanie is totally rad. When my family decided to visit Chicago for the first time, the LITERAL first thing I did was to go onto Open Table and do trial and error until I figured out how many days in advance I would need to book my Girl & the Goat reservation. (It's 100 days, btw.) I then set up a reminder on my calendar to make sure I secured a reservation for the weekend we would be there. Fast forward to the night of my reservation. We arrive at G&tG about twenty minutes early. My family all orders drinks at the bar which were quite enjoyable. We're seated at our table on time and all seems to be going splendidly. We get our menus and I make sure to talk to my server immediately, since I can't eat gluten (I have celiac.). They happen to have a gluten free menu, which was a delightful surprise! And then, it all went downhill. The gluten free menu had gluten on