Friedman's Lunch - NY

Another place David found that supports Gluten Free eating, is Friedman's Lunch.

It is inside the Chelsea Market, which is one of my favorite spots.  Not only is it home of the MLB and Food Network's office.  I like the decorations in the hallway, if you ever walk by, take a closer look at the elevators and the wall decorations.

That night, the special was watermelon cucumber lemonade.  For the alcoholic version, I've seen them put it with champagne, that sounded very good.  Just because without the alcohol it's already pretty awesome.

For sides, they have this awesome and very addictive Brussels sprouts. It's not too oily, even though it looks it.  But the Parmesan cheese mix well with it.  It doesn't melt everything together, but nice enough to have a hint of the cheese taste.  I think I would've liked it if it's a tad crunchy because it seems a tad soggy, but bits there were crunchy was really delicious.

Here we have a GF version of Scallop.  So instead of risotto, they substituted it with quinoa pasta.  It was mixed with sundried tomato and mushroom.  Honestly, I can't really taste the tomato, they usually stand out in dishes like this.  But I can't taste it, the sauce they used was quite over empowering.  That was good for the scallops and the quinoa pasta, but covered up the tomato and the mushroom.  I can only hope that the sauce has those ingredient somewhere. 

If you're hard core GF, you can pretty much forget about having dessert there.  The night we were there, the (very delicious sounding) dessert was chocolate chip cookie in a pan.  That sounded good but not GF friendly.  If you order a sandwich, they're ready for you since they will substitute with GF bread.  Food over all is good, atmosphere is relax and fun especially after a day of shopping and sightseeing. 

Friedman's Lunch

75 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(212) 929-7100
http://www.friedmanslunch.com/