{"id":54000,"date":"2013-11-06T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=54000"},"modified":"2020-06-20T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:01:19","slug":"ristorante-rinuccini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=54000","title":{"rendered":"Gluten-Free in Kilkenny: Ristorante Rinuccini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, we didn’t have a lot of luck with food in Ireland. It was difficult to find allergy-friendly restaurants outside of Temple Bar<\/a> in Dublin; so, for most of the journey, we were limited to pubs and dodgy looking (and smelling) family restaurants. In fact, between Cork, Portmagee, Valentia Island, and Galway I ended up eating very little, which *I think* saved me from food poisoning. <\/p>\n

In a nutshell: Irish food is a meat\/potatoes combo, street food is non-existent (beyond food markets), an “Irish” breakfast is the same experience everywhere, and while we found a few coffee shops worth mentioning, nothing really knocked my socks off.<\/p>\n

The exception to all of this was Ristorante Rinuccini<\/a> in Kilkenny. It didn’t appear on my list of GF friendly restaurants in Yelp. I’m not sure why it didn’t appear, but we found it rather accidentally because I *ahem* fell down a set of stairs and landed beside a number of awards posted outside the entrance. Curious, I Googled it and immediately made a reservation.<\/p>\n

The food here was nothing short of fantastic and it was a welcome reprieve from standard Irish food. As an aside, when I told the chef the GF thing he whipped up a batch of special bread. <\/p>\n