Gluten Free Travel

Gluten Free Restaurants in Oklahoma City

This past weekend, we took a last-minute trip to Oklahoma City. I tried to search for gluten free restaurants in Oklahoma City on Pinterest and had little luck. Fortunately I was able to find several places, and I am happy to share them here! I will do another blog post about our trip, because Oklahoma City was so different than what I expected. It is only a 5 hour drive for us and we’ve never been there together. I have only driven through once (back in 1995, I wasn’t driving) and Brandon had never been there. The city is bigger than we realized, and it’s such a nice city to visit.

Since it’s such a large city, you do have all the usual chain restaurants with gluten-free menus.  A few that I noticed while driving through were Chili’s, Applebees, and PF Changs. We only spend one weekend in Oklahoma City, so this is certainly not an extensive list of restaurants with gluten free options. These are the restaurants that we visited during our stay.

HuHot Mongolian Grill

There are 4 HuHot locations in Missouri. We have been to all of them. We love HuHot because it’s one of the few places where I can eat and not worry much about gluten contamination. The restaurant in Springfield, Missouri is particularly aware of allergy issues. Their menu items have allergy labels and the staff seems very aware of allergy issues. Oklahoma City HuHot was a little different, but they did bring me a special colored bowl so that the chefs would know that I couldn’t have gluten. They also cleaned the grill before I got up there. At the other HuHot locations we have always had to wait and tell the Chefs whenever we got to the grill, but in this case the server did it for us. Overall the experience with this HuHot location was pretty good! Make sure to check out my thoughts on the HuHot Gluten free menu while you’re at it! I do wish that more locations used the “special” allergy bowls and alerted the Chefs beforehand, I always feel like such a pain having to tell them to clean a special spot on the grill.

KD’s Bricktown

Brandon talked about this restaurant while we were driving to Oklahoma City. I was worried that their wouldn’t be anything that I could eat (Southern cuisine = everything breaded and fried) but I said that we should go anyway. I asked for a gluten free menu, and they had one! I had the Thundersticks (grilled chicken skewers) with sweet and tangy sauce. The “sweet and tangy” sauce was spicier than I expected but so good! I couldn’t find the gluten free menu online, but I took a picture of it at the restaurant! We went to eat lunch on a day where the Thunder was playing the Cavaliers (we went to that too!), so the restaurant was PACKED! I know absolutely nothing about basketball, but the restaurant was still a very cool place to eat. Brandon had a chicken sandwich with fries (huge plate) and he said it was really good too. The chicken skewers were technically an appetizer, but they were enough food for me. There were several gluten free sides if chicken doesn’t sound like enough food.

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop

There are several Fuzzy’s Taco shop locations in Missouri, but we had never been to one. There was a long line, so we figured it had to be good! We originally were just going to get a margarita, but the line was so long that we were hungry by the time we got ready to order. They didn’t have a gluten free menu at the restaurant but I was able to find one online today. I had the bean and cheese nachos and unfortunately I got SICK. I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t eaten hardly any beans, cheese, or corn lately due to starting the Whole 30. Since I had messed up the Whole 30 several times, I decided to just eat whatever (except gluten of course) for the weekend. So I don’t know if there was some cross contamination with gluten or if my body was just shocked because I hadn’t had much dairy or beans in a while. Either way, it’s worth mentioning because the margaritas were AWESOME. Several of the tacos are gluten free (corn tortilla shells) as well as most of the salads. I would advise anyone on a gluten free diet to be cautious, but I can’t really be sure if it was gluten contamination or just eating things that I am not used to.

Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse

We actually didn’t go here, but we talked about it. It’s a little pricier than the other options that I mentioned but it has great reviews. I wanted to include it in this list because they seemed to have a lot of gluten free options. You’ll have to download the menu to view them, but there were several and they looked delicious! Hopefully we will be able to try it out next time!

This isn’t an extensive list of all of the gluten free restaurants in Oklahoma City, but hopefully it will help if you are traveling and looking for gluten free options! We also stopped in to Jamba Juice for breakfast one morning. Most Jamba Juice smoothies are gluten free and they are VERY good about allergy requests and information. Most of the actual food items are not gluten free but there are plenty of gluten free smoothie options! If you have any other suggestions for Gluten Free Restaurants in Oklahoma City, please leave them in the comments!

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