As David travels, we have to find more gluten free friendly places. Lucky for us, there are more up in the Northeast areas than in Texas. As gluten free is gaining momentum, Texas is slowly catches on, but it sure makes it easy for travel when a city is already familiar with the allergy.
David found Fontaine on Yelp. And it was a great recommendation. Located in Old Town Alexandria, it was quaint and cute.
You can see that they serve a wide arrange of alcohol if needed. Opened by a pair of sisters who grew up eating whole foods, one sister went off to become a chef and opened this cafe after some experience with big named places.
Lucky for us, they realized that there is a need for gluten free crepes and all crepes can be substituted with buckwheat batter.
Here I ordered the Parisienne, which is chicken with ratatouille veggies, topped with a nice pesto sauce and inside there's baked brie. It was definitely rich with the brie, I barely touched my side salad, I was full.
But how can you say no to a sweet crepe? Of course you have to have some! The sweet crepe wasn't as well done as the savory crepe. This is just nutella crepe. They didn't put alot of Nutella in it and it didn't have sufficient time to melt inside the crepe.
By the way, if you order gluten free sweet crepe there's a $1 surcharge, however for savory crepe they don't charge you anything extra, so make sure to take note.
The place is small, they do have more seating on the back behind the bar, but if you go during peak meal time, don't be surprise if you have a wait outside the door. Some nights they do French movie nights to go with the meal too. Check their site for more info.
Fontaine Caffe & Creperie
Old Town Alexandria
119 South Royal Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 535-8151
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