Ohanas with celiac

[carrie s]

Both me and my DD have celiac.I made ADR's for dinner at Ohanas but now Im starting to worry that ohanas may not be the best place for us to eat.Has anyone with celiac or other food allergys eatten there?

 

[allyphoe]

IIRC (this was back in October 2005), the salad is fine, as is one of the dipping sauces (the red one? I know the peanut wasn't safe, but I don't remember if it was the harissa or chimichurri that was). The other two sauces weren't modifiable to be safe. They can do the wings safe, but you don't get the sauce. They can do the shrimp safe, and it's close to normal. The potatoes were safe as is.

We waited a million bazillion years for the meats (normally marinated in soy sauce, so they had to do a fresh batch with no marinade), which came out horribly overcooked. There's plenty to eat without the meat, and my recollection is we said if we had it to do over, we wouldn't have bothered with the meat, and just skipped it entirely.

The ice cream is safe, the bread pudding obviously not - I don't remember if the bananas foster sauce was safe or not, but I think yes.

'Ohana, IMHO, is not particularly celiac-friendly, in that their solution is to just omit anything that contains soy sauce, rather than doing a tamari-based alternative. I personally don't have celiac (three people in our group did), and IMHO (based on subsequent visits without them) the food prepared the "normal" way was much better.

 

[carrie s]

Thanks.I think I will cancel it.

 

[dawnball]

IIRC (this was back in October 2005), the salad is fine, as is one of the dipping sauces (the red one? I know the peanut wasn't safe, but I don't remember if it was the harissa or chimichurri that was). The other two sauces weren't modifiable to be safe.

I think that both the harissa and the chimichurri were safe. But they didn't realize that we'd need one set for the folks dipping the (gluten-y) wontons into and one for the gluten free folks. It took a little bit to get that straight.

my recollection is we said if we had it to do over, we wouldn't have bothered with the meat, and just skipped it entirely.

Yes, that's correct. I would eat there again and have the shrimp, potatoes, salad, wings, veggies and be happy. I probably wouldn't bother with the meat or I wouldn't bother with all the meats - just pick one or two. I do think we brought some of the overcooked-ness on ourselves because it was impossible to tell when they brought the meats if they were bringing the gluten free meats or the gluten meats, so we kept sending skewers back. I think those skewers were probably gluten free, but I couldn't swear to it.

The ice cream is safe, the bread pudding obviously not - I don't remember if the bananas foster sauce was safe or not, but I think yes.

The bananas foster sauce was gluten free, and they brought us desserts from Kona cafe that were gluten free. However, they only had one option, which was banana creme brulee.

I'm now dairy free and gluten free, and I wouldn't eat at 'Ohana, because almost everything that has no gluten has dairy.

 

[carrie s]

Were going to konas instead now.

Thanks for the help.