Linden House Hotel Torquay

A recent addition to www.gluten-free-onthego.com is Linden House in Torquay. This AA 4 Star Georgian house is set in beautiful gardens and offers top quality accomodation. Open all year around, Linden House is run by Tracy and Graham Adams. Tracy is herself a coeliac and cook, so you can relax and be sure all your special diet needs will be taken care of. Take a look at Linden House advert on the link below and see for yourselves the luxuerious hotel they have created.
http://www.gluten-free-onthego.com/restaurantDisplay.asp?RestaurantID=4507

Dietary card

DietaryCard can take the ordeal out of ordering your festive lunches and dinners this year with their special offer of Classic Coeliac Cards explaining your condition in English discounted to £5 until Christmas. Order a Dietary Alert Card in English or in 17 other languages at www.dietarycard.co.uk or on 01506 635358.

www.gluten-free-onthego.com Newsletter

I try to send out a regular update through our www.gluten-free-onthego.com newsletter every few months. It usually includes all the new venues that are advertising on the site and also a range of special offers. These include cut price holidays and last minte deals at restaurants. Heres an example from the last issue:
Garnish House,Cork
2 nights B&B for €89/night/room including award winning breakfast and afternoon tea.
Greenbanks Country House Hotel Norfolk, GF Xmas menu available from 1st-22nd Dec. Autumn/winter short break specials available
Warner Holidays
25% off brochure prices for autmn/winter breaks
The Ormond Hotel Tetbury Glouc, offering an amazing Mid-week Champagne special. Dinner B&B inc bottle champagne for £99 offer runs until 15th Dec.

So please sign up on our home page if you would like to receive our next issue.
http://www.gluten-free-onthego.com/

Rayond Blanc's The Restaurant

Any fans of Raymond Blanc's The Restaurant (BBC2)may have seen the penultimate espisode where contestants had to cater for customers with special diets . These included vegans and vegetarians but also Coeliacs.(real ones!) It was alittle disturbing to see the restauranters serving non-gluten-free options to these customers, who luckily questioned everything they were concerned about. (As you do). Also the vegans ended up with cabbage and not much else in one case. However no one appeared to be harmed in the making of the programme!!!
Perhaps though we should find encouragement from the fact that the BBC featured this aspect of Food service in their programme and certainly in summarising, Raymond himself was very adamant about the importance of ensuring all special diet customers are well served!
Hope for us all.

Queens Hotel Llandudno

The Queen's Hotel, Llandudno was recently visited by Bill, who wanted to recommend it to anyone heading for North Wales. Having called the hotel in advance and advised them of his dietary requirements they were completely up to speed. On arriving there; they completely surpassed his expectations by offering him gluten free bread, soup and gravy. Obviously someone in that hotel is tuned in and Bill was able to enjoy the dance weekend he went for without any worries.
If only all experiences were that good. xxxx
If your visiting Llandudno you may also want to check the lovely Burleigh Guest House
http://www.gluten-free-onthego.com/restaurantDisplay.asp?RestaurantID=2651