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Gluten-free Melbourne

Eating gluten free here: Easy

Melbourne's laneways hide a run of fully gluten-free kitchens (Mexican, Spanish, Italian rice and a 100% gluten-free café) a few blocks apart. On a label here, gluten free means no detectable gluten.

Gluten-free food in Melbourne
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What to ask
I have coeliac disease, so it needs to be gluten free with no cross-contact. Is this made separately, and is there a dedicated fryer?

Where to eat

100% gluten free

The whole kitchen is gluten free. Order anything.

Coeliac-careful kitchen

Not a gluten-free kitchen, but trained for coeliacs: accredited, a separate fryer or a separate menu with real protocols.

Good gluten-free options

Plenty you can eat and staff who get it, in a kitchen that also uses flour. Say it's coeliac, not a preference.

Before you go

Gluten free means no detectable gluten.

Any food sold in Australia with a gluten-free claim must have no detectable gluten, imports included.

Source: Coeliac Australia
Look for the GF symbol.

Restaurants with Coeliac Australia's GF symbol have passed an audit, lab-tested their gluten-free dishes and trained their staff.

Source: Coeliac Australia
Oats count for some.

Coeliac Australia lists oats with wheat, rye and barley, because some coeliacs react to them.

Source: Coeliac Australia
Start in the laneways.

Flinders Lane, Hardware Lane and Little Bourke Street have most of the fully gluten-free places, all walkable from Flinders Street station.

Source: Find Me Gluten Free (coeliac diners' reports)

Watch out for

Source: Find Me Gluten Free (coeliac diners' reports)

Help on the ground

Coeliac Australia: Australia's coeliac charity. Lists its accredited restaurants.

Find Me Gluten Free: Melbourne: Coeliac diners' reviews, the main source for this one.

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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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