• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Gluten-Free Pearls

Pearls of Wisdom From a Gluten-Free Gal

  • Home
  • Meet Kate
  • Restaurant Reviews
    • American
    • Asian
    • Italian
    • Mexican
    • Casual Dining
    • On the Finer Side
    • Eat Local
    • Out & About
  • Gluten-free Restaurant Directory
    • Gluten-Free Restaurants: St. Louis
    • Gluten-Free Restaurants Chicago
    • Gluten-free Restaurants: Missouri
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Email
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • RSS
    • Twitter

Pearl #16: Gluten-free at Wild Flower St. Louis

June 15, 2013 by Kate 2 Comments

There’s a new sheriff [boss] in town at work, so we’ve been doing our fair share of dining out. For his first day, we headed down to Wild Flower in Central West End.

It was a gorgeous day out, so we dined outside. They have a great patio – it would definitely be a nice spot for a post-work cocktail.

We had a pleasant dining experience, albeit nothing out of this world. The lunch menu was marked with gluten-free options *which is always much appreciated*, but I didn’t see anything mind-blowingly different offered other than some delicious-sounding GF pastas. Though our server wasn’t particularly well-versed in the gluten-free menu options, she did happily double-check on ingredients.

I settled on the Golden Chevre salad, adapted, and added grilled chicken breast for extra protein. If I may quote from their regular, non-GF menu – “A breath-taking salad with fresh berries, candied walnuts, julienne apples and mixed greens accompanied by a strawberry poppyseed vinaigrette topped with chevre (goat cheese).” What a delightful summer salad description! Sadly, our server let me know that their standard chevre salad is encrusted in walnuts and panko bread crumbs. However – Wild Flower came through for me. Since I’m a sucker for goat cheese, I was pleased to learn that they could just crumble the goat cheese on top.

The salad was good. Refreshing, fresh, crisp. I was satisfied – not still hungry and not nearing food coma territory.

So you’ll imagine my shock JUST NOW when I browsed to their website to dig up the name of my salad and discovered…THEY HAVE A DEDICATED GLUTEN-FREE MENU.

WITH BREAD.
And pasta.
Say what??

So I called them to investigate a little more. While it doesn’t appear they have a separate gluten-free menu they hand out in the restaurant, they do indeed have bread. *For the win*

Wild Flower, I’ll be back for you.

I’ve got my eye on the Wild Mushroom Fettuccine. Or the Phil Burger. Or one of their small plates…brussel sprouts and pancetta, sauteed and drizzled with a balsamic reduction.

zomg.

Ken, date night soon?

Until next time,
Kate

Filed Under: American, On the Finer Side, Restaurant Reviews Tagged With: gluten free central west end, gluten free restaurants st louis, gluten free st. louis, wild flower gluten free st louis

« Pearl #15: Gluten-free at Tani Sushi Bistro
Pearl #17: Gluten-free at zPizza in Clayton »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Kelley Milner

    November 23, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Digging around for some gluten free options for a Christmas Party, and I just so happened to stumble upon this little gem! Thanks Kate 🙂

    Reply
    • Kate

      December 17, 2015 at 9:11 pm

      Love it, Kelley! Where did you end up for your Xmas party? Miss you – hope you’re doing fabulously!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Pearl #55: 15 Healthy-ish Gluten-free Chicago Restaurants - Gluten-Free Pearls on Pearl #51: Gluten-free at Ema (Chicago)
  • Ali on Pearl #47: Gluten-free at Mercadito (Chicago)
  • Kate on Pearl #54: Gluten-free at Wrigley Field (Chicago) – UPDATED
  • Kate on Gluten-Free Restaurants Chicago
  • Dirk on Gluten-Free Restaurants Chicago

Categories

  • American
  • Asian
  • Casual Dining
  • Eat Local
  • Fast Food
  • Italian
  • Mexican
  • On the Finer Side
  • Out & About
  • Restaurant Reviews

Footer

Instagram did not return a 200.

About Kate

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Thanks for stopping by Gluten-Free Pearls! I’m Kate Kerans – advertising professional by day … foodie by night. (Or really, any time.)

My Favorites

Copyright © 2021 · Foodie Pro & The Genesis Framework