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Gluten free · checked October 29, 2026
London is one of the easiest big cities in the world to eat gluten free. The law makes every restaurant tell you what's in a dish, coeliac-run places are opening every year, and you can have a proper fish supper, a Sunday roast and a Paris-Brest without a second thought.
I have coeliac disease, so gluten free isn't enough on its own. Is this made and cooked away from gluten, in a separate fryer?
The whole kitchen is gluten free. Order anything.
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Angel, Islington · 197-199 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TJ · site
100% gluten, nut and sesame free, everything made on site. Source: Niche's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A pie, and on Sundays the roast with Yorkshire puddings
London's first 100% gluten-free restaurant, round the corner from Sadler's Wells. British crowd-pleasers you'd never guess were gluten free.
Elephant & Castle · 4-5 London Road, SE1 6JZ · site
Dedicated gluten-free kitchen: no wheat, barley, rye or oats. Source: Paladar's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Ceviche, the cassava and corn dishes, a pisco sour
Latin American cooking built on corn and cassava, so nothing is a swap. A courtyard garden for warm nights.
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Covent Garden · 1 Aldwych, WC2B 4BZ · site
Every dish at lunch and dinner is gluten free. Source: One Aldwych's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Lunch before a show, then the hotel's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory afternoon tea (ask for the gluten-free one)
A grown-up hotel dining room where you can order anything on the menu. Handy for the West End.
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Notting Hill (also the City) · 2-4 Farmer Street, W8 7SN · site
The whole menu is gluten, nut and celery free. Source: Los Mochis's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Maki rolls, tiraditos and tacos to share, from the long agave list
Mexican meets Japanese, loud and fun, and the whole menu is safe, so the table can share everything.
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Mayfair · 30 Upper Grosvenor Street, W1K 7PH
Coeliac UK accredited, 100% gluten and nut free kitchen. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: The tasting menu (from about £145 a head)
The special-occasion one: modern Japanese where a coeliac can eat every course.
Covent Garden (also Islington) · 54 Neal Street, WC2H 9PA · site
100% gluten free bakery. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Paris-Brest, an éclair, a filled baguette for later
The famous Paris gluten-free bakery, now in London. Proper French patisserie at normal London prices.
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Notting Hill (also Belsize Park) · 61 Ledbury Road, W11 2AA
100% gluten-free bakery. Source: The Nomadic Fitzpatricks, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Whatever's just out of the oven, with a coffee
A small family bakery that started as a pop-up. Pair it with a Portobello Road walk.
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Herne Hill (also Balham) · 119 Dulwich Road, SE24 0NG · site
The whole menu is gluten free. Source: Utter Waffle's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A savoury waffle for brunch, a sweet one to finish
Co-owned by a coeliac who got tired of menus that made them ill. Daytime only.
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Selfridges Food Hall, Oxford Street · 400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB
100% gluten free (and vegan). Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A yum yum, and check when that tray came in
Real fried doughnuts, gluten free and vegan, right in the middle of shopping.
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Carnaby (also Connaught Village) · 10 Kingly Street, W1B 5PJ
100% gluten free. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A slice of the classic Basque cheesecake
One thing, done right: burnt, creamy San Sebastián cheesecake by the slice.
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St Paul's (and other sites) · 1 New Change, EC4M 9AF
100% gluten free. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A salad bowl with meat or fish for a quick lunch
The easy weekday lunch: every bowl on the board is safe.
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Berwick Street Market, Soho · Berwick Street, W1F 0PH
100% gluten free and plant based. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A brownie or a slice of cheesecake from the stall
A gluten-free, plant-based baker you'll only find at the market.
Market stall on Wednesdays and Saturdays
Not a gluten-free kitchen, but trained for coeliacs: accredited, a separate fryer or a separate menu with real protocols.
Soho (also Charing Cross, Paddington) · 27 St Anne's Court, W1F 0BN
Gluten-free batter, fried to order in a separate fryer. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Haddock and chips, onion rings, then sticky toffee pudding
Crisp batter that stays crisp, the real London fish supper.
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Holborn · 52-54 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1ES
Separate fryers for gluten-free fish and chips. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Cod and chips, a few minutes from the British Museum
The other safe chippy in the middle of town.
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Chinatown · 37-38 Gerrard Street, W1D 5QB
Gluten-free handmade dim sum, with a kitchen that takes cross-contamination seriously. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: The gluten-free dim sum
Handmade dumplings are usually off limits. Here they're the point.
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Carnaby (also Fitzrovia) · 1 Newburgh Street, W1F 7RB
A separate gluten-free menu with good safety habits. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Dumplings, gluten-free tempura and noodles off the separate menu
A coeliac favourite: noodles and tempura you can actually eat.
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Marylebone · 13-14 Thayer Street, W1U 3JR
Most of the menu is naturally gluten free, with a solid safety record. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Tacos and tostadas on corn tortillas, plenty of totopos
Modern Mexican, mostly naturally gluten free, with a good name among coeliacs.
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All over London · site
Coeliac UK accredited since 2015, and 98% of the main menu is gluten free. Source: Pho's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Pho, obviously, and the summer rolls
The safe, cheap, anywhere answer when you're tired and hungry.
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All over London (the Soho one has jazz) · 10 Dean Street, W1D 3RW · site
Coeliac UK accredited. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Any pizza on the gluten-free base
Not the best pizza in London, but the safe one, on every high street.
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All over London (Soho, Covent Garden...) · 4a Meard Street, W1F 0EF · site
Gluten-free buns, chips and tenders, with a real grip on cross-contamination. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: A burger on the gluten-free bun, rosemary salted chips, gluten-free chicken tenders
The burger chain coeliacs trust, with branches everywhere.
Plenty you can eat and staff who get it, in a kitchen that also uses flour. Say it's coeliac, not a preference.
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Soho (and two more) · 15 Poland Street, W1F 8QE
Almost all naturally gluten free, with the unsafe dishes marked. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Mezze and vegetable plates for the table
Vegetarian Middle Eastern where almost everything happens to be gluten free.
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Covent Garden (also Golden Square) · 39 William IV Street, WC2N 4DD
Fresh gluten-free pasta, made in-house, so some cross-contamination risk. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: The fresh gluten-free pasta
Fresh pasta, actually fresh, which is rare. They're open that it's made in a kitchen with flour, so ask.
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South Kensington, Soho and more · site
Almost the entire menu is gluten free. Source: CERU's own site, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Levantine mezze and the grills (skip the pita)
Bright, easy Eastern Mediterranean food where nearly every plate is safe.
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Marylebone, in The Langham · 1c Portland Place, W1B 1JA
The menu is extensively gluten free. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: The seafood
New in 2026: a smart Italian seafood room with a menu that's mostly gluten free. Pricey.
Mayfair (and two more) · 31-33 Heddon Street, W1B 4BN
Most dishes naturally gluten free, well marked menu. Source: Gluten Free Alchemist, checked October 29, 2026
Get: Piri-piri chicken off the charcoal and the sides
Portuguese sharing food, most of it naturally gluten free, staff who know the drill.
UK law makes restaurants and cafés tell you if a dish contains any of 14 allergens, cereals with gluten among them. Ask, and they have to answer.
Source: Food Standards AgencyCoeliac UK accredits kitchens that are trained and audited for gluten-free food. Pho, PizzaExpress, MA/NA and Niche carry it.
Source: Coeliac UKAt most chippies the chips go in the same oil as the battered fish. Only order where they fry gluten free separately, like Hobson's and Fishoria below.
Source: Gluten Free AlchemistEvery big supermarket has a free-from aisle, and Marks & Spencer's gluten-free range is the one to raid for train snacks and sandwiches.
Source: The Nomadic FitzpatricksSource: Coeliac UK
Coeliac UK: The national charity. Its app lists accredited places near you.
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How Chef checks: every place here says it on its own site, or a coeliac writer who ate there does, and we link which. We checked on October 29, 2026. Kitchens change, staff change: if it's coeliac disease, say so every time. Photos marked "a photo like it" aren't of that place. No place paid to be here.
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