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Gluten free sandwich to go?

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My employer does not have a cafeteria or restaurants nearby so we have the option of ordering food from waiter.com. When I noticed that Erik's Deli was on the list for today's "early lunch" delivery, I leapt at the opportunity to try ordering one of their delicious gluten free sanwiches which they put on Rudi's multigrain bread. Note that the waiter.com menu makes no mention of a gluten free bread option so I had to enter my own comments and hope that someone would read it: "On GLUTEN-FREE bread instead of roll* If you are out of the gluten free bread please cancel this order." Fortunately the comment worked - and I immediately knew that indeed it was on gluten free bread: Next time I will ask them to separate the bread from the filling so I can toast it when it arrives using my toastabags (and so it does not break up into pieces during transit). But it was quite tasty! What other gluten free foods don't do well for take out?

Gluten Free Chicago!

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I just returned from almost a week in Chicago to attend a family event- including an extra day snowed in by a blizzard. It turns out Chicago, especially the northern  suburbs is a great place to be gluten free. We had some incredible eats, and some disappointments. I'll do my best to summarize here. Pizza! Of course I will start with the results of our pizza tour. Unfortunately we were unable to try *all* the offerings, but that was due to there being too many options out there- such a great problem to  have. Marcello's The top honor for best Chicago pizza goes to Marcello's. We visited the restaurant in Northbrook and were offered a full gluten free menu including pizza, pasta, salads and even a dessert "pizza". We ordered one thin crust (for the Giggler), a pan pizza with sausage, a side of roasted vegetables and a berry "dessert pizza". Marcello's pan pizza is a bit on the small side, but very flavor packed. Next time we're in town we