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The Redwater Rustic Grill
December 10th, 2008 | caitlin | Categories: The Dish
Tagged: Calgary, Redwater Rustic Grill, The Dish

Feel like being poisoned? Feel like being treated like a moron? Feel like spending way too much money on a lukewarm meal?

Yes? Then go to the Redwater Rustic Grill.

No? Save your money and go to A Tasty Menu.

When I was first diagnosed I was overwhelmed. It was hard enough to figure out what things in my fridge had gluten; let alone try eating out. Well, I have great friends, and they were not going to let me do this alone. One of my good friends had a good friend that also had Celiac, so she set up a dinner for all of us. I was ecstatic. I got to have a nice dinner with cool people and also pick the brain of a gluttie and learn a few things.

It pays to know people who know people!

We chose the Redwater Rustic Grill because of its gluten free pasta choices. This made it a no brainer to eat out. No having to modify, eliminate, explain and pray. This was going to be easy!

NO.

When the waitress came along both the Celiacs ordered the Chicken Fettuccine on gluten free pasta, and my friend ordered the Rissoto. The three of us then sat back, dove into our wine and had a great visit. The pasta came, I started drooling. I honestly thought that meals like this were never going to be an option for me again.

I grabbed a big fork full.

I was stopped immediately.

The other person of my kind knew something wasn’t quite right. All the times she had been there the gluten free pasta was a pene noodle and this time it was a fettuccine noodle. Something in her brain clicked and we held back. When the waitress came to the table we asked: “is this gluten free?” She answered promptly – “NO”, we didn’t ask for gluten free. Umm….yes yes we did. Both of us did. So her next retort was we didn’t ask loud enough. Umm..ya sure whatever makes you feel better about trying to poison us. So she took the dishes back and we waited again.

In the mean time the MANAGER of the restaurant approached us. Instead of apologizing for the mix up, or asking us what happened. He proceeded to open the menu and show us where it said they had gluten free pasta and explain to us that we DID NOT ORDER IT CORRECTLY. I’m sorry but what isn’t clear about two people saying: “Can I please have the chicken fettuccine on gluten free pasta?”

No Mr. Manager, you’re right. We’re just a bunch of stupid people who obviously don’t care about our allergy. Mr. Manager you are so right; there is no way YOUR staff could have made the mistake. It was CLEARLY OUR FAULT.

Well, Mr. Manager GO PACK SAND.

The Redwater Rustic Grill obviously doesn’t think things through. Somehow they had managed to reason that two people with Celiac Disease were the ones in the wrong. According to them we are the idiots. There couldn’t possibly be an error on their part.

To add salt to the wound my friends Rissoto wasn’t cooked. They also proceeded to explain to her why she didn’t know what she was talking about – um she knows what shes talking about. The girl can cook!

So if you want to be treated like an idiot fresh from the loony bin – go to The Redwater Rustic Grill.

The Redwater Rustic Grill
9223 Macleod Tr. Sw,
Calgary, Alberta

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