GFbird: 5 Napkin Burger (Union Sq. Outpost)

Monday, April 30, 2012

5 Napkin Burger (Union Sq. Outpost)

I've been meaning to try 5 Napkin Burger for some time. I'd heard from reliable sources - and the parent company itself - that 5 Napkin is GF-friendly. I recently ended up in the Union Square area on a weekday and decided to pop in for lunch at the newest 5 Napkin outpost.

My waitress was very knowledgeable about GF concerns and told me all of my options. 5 Napkin has a signature burger, a 10oz beef burger with caramelized onions, gruyere cheese, and rosemary aioli - available on a GF roll. I went with that, and got this:

Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger!

It was good and - just as important: I didn't get sick. Not even a slight reaction. WOO HOO.

I'm not much of a drinker, but was still heartened to see this on the regular menu:

Craft GF beers? NICE.

I'll definitely be back. Now we just need a 5 Napkin in Brooklyn!

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I was always an avid home cook and restaurant-goer. From my teens on, my idea of "going out" generally involved some form of social eating. I grew up with a huge extended family that regularly dined together and I was in the kitchen helping my grandmother from an early age.

I often joke that I come from deli royalty, as my family owned one in Brooklyn for almost 30 years - so there was always a ton of good food around. Seemed only natural when I started working in restaurants in my early teens, though an accident with a dull knife and my left index finger ended my back of the house aspirations along the way. I've had pretty much every front of the house position at all types of venues, including a few years at Moosewood Restaurant. In my mid-20's, I started to work in healthcare, and have always maintained a love of food and eating well. In 2010, I melded my passions for health and food by completing a master's in public health nutrition.

After being diagnosed with celiac and DH back in 2003, I didn't go out to eat for three years! I don't even remember how long it was before I felt competent enough in the kitchen again to be a gf hostest with the mostest. But that was 10 years ago; I've changed along with the gf product/knowledge landscape. Back in NYC after many years in upstate NY, I'm committed to having a social eating life again, dishing up good eats at home and enjoying what gf vittles NYC has to offer. As any gf person can appreciate, this involves a fair amount of research and planning. Seems a shame to keep all that I've learned to myself; hence this blog.

Monday, April 30, 2012

5 Napkin Burger (Union Sq. Outpost)

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