Your Celiac Guide to Travel
Updated March 2025
Gluten-free croissants? It’s a quest as elusive as finding a unicorn! But fear not, fellow gluten-free foodies. I’ve scoured Montreal to bring you the ultimate guide to these flaky pastries. The research is tough, but someone has to do it!
One week from today, I will be touring around St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada for the very first time. I am so excited to be in a new city and especially excited to attend the Canadian Celiac Association National Conference, the real purpose of my trip.
None of my gluten-free travels are complete without eating my way through the new city. I reached out to my Gluten-Free Globetrotter Facebook friends as well as the Canadian Celiac Association Facebook followers for suggestions of where to eat gluten-free food while in St. John’s. The response was so great and I have a long list of places to eat while in St. John’s.
To view the fully compiled list, please visit the Canadian Celiac Association conference website.
Note from the CCA: This list is compiled by people who have had experiences eating at restaurants in St. John’s. Many restaurants do not have dedicated gluten free menus but many such as the chain restaurants have their menus marked. Most restaurants in the St. John’s area can accommodate gluten free especially if you call ahead of time. This list is not exhaustive.
Note from me: Be sure to remember to speak to your waitstaff, manager, and/or chef if you have any questions or concerns about your meal!
Are any of your favorite restaurants missing? Please leave them in the comments below!
Source: NewfoundlandLabrador.com
One month from today I will be in Newfoundland! This is more than 4,600 miles from my current house in California yet still in North America. This kind of blows my mind being a lifelong East Coast girl until this year. It is also 4.5 hours difference in time zones from California to NL and my first time in a 1/2 hour time zone difference. What?! I didn’t even know half time zones existed until I looked up the current time in Newfoundland! All sorts of newness going on for me in this trip to the most eastern part of North America. To say I am excited would be an understatement.
Besides the whales, icebergs, and puffins, that I hope to see, I am most excited is because I am presenting at the Canadian Celiac Association National Conference. This is a wonderful honor and I am so happy to share my lifelong celiac disease experiences and international gluten-free travel tips and expertise with the Canadian Celiac community.
This two-day conference has a stellar line of celiac experts from across North America! Visit the schedule page to see the full line-up. I am really flattered to be included with some of the top celiac medical professionals in the world.
I am thrilled to be giving away one free entry to the conference. The value of this ticket is $275 CAD which is an enormously generous prize from the Canadian Celiac Association. You are responsible for hotel and transportation so if you can get yourself to St. John’s Newfoundland on June 25 and June 26 and you can find a hotel room (it’s peak season!!), you can enter to win.
To enter, please use the form below!
Enter to win entry for one person to the Canadian Celiac Association National Conference. Winner will be chosen on May 27, 2016.
I am so excited to announce that I have been invited to speak at the Canadian Celiac Association 2016 National Conference to be held June 24-26, 2016 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. This is my first international speaking engagement and I cannot wait to share my gluten-free travel tips to my neighbors in the north!
I am in excellent company with other speakers who will share their celiac disease expertise with the conference attendees. Additionally, I will finally get to meet some of the Canadian experts that I’ve only ever read about online. Click here for the speaker schedule for both days of the conferences.
Registration is now open and you can pay via credit card or mail in a check. Please visit www.ccaconference.com for more information. Be sure to register before the early bird deadline of March 31st for a chance to win a great prize from the conference sponsors! If you plan on attending the conference, let me know in the comments below. I would love to meet you in Canada!
I’ve traveled to Ontario and British Columbia but never Newfoundland. I am thrilled to add a new destination within Canada to my travels. St. John’s looks absolutely gorgeous and is known as one of the most colorful cities in the world. It is also the oldest city in North America so it has a lot of rich history. I am definitely extending my visit beyond the days of the conference to explore St. John’s and the surrounding areas.
Do you have any recommendations for the St John’s area? Gluten-free food, activities in the area, etc.? I’m open to sugestions!
Happy Canada Day to all of my family, friends, and readers up north! I have only seen a sliver of Canada during my trips to Port Stanley and London, Ontario and a 2008 trip Vancouver, BC and I cannot wait to explore more. In 2016, I will get that chance!
In honor of Canada Day, I am THRILLED to announce that I am speaking at the 2016 Canadian Celiac Association national conference. The conference is June 24-26, 2016 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I am so excited to share my lifelong celiac experiences and Gluten-Free Globetrotter travel tips with the Canadian celiac community. I am also really happy to explore a new-to-me area of Canada.
Thank you so much to the Canadian Celiac Association for this opportunity. See you next year!
