Foddies low-FODMAP cafe to open in Melbourne
If allergies are getting you down and you feel like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sallyevery time you're ordering out, then form an orderly line on Victoria Avenue in Albert Park because specialty food producer Foddies is opening a cafe.
A selection of Foddies' gluten-free sweet treats.Photo: Supplied
"Sick of being 'that person' at every restaurant, that has to ask the waiters – who have no idea – all those questions that make you feel like a pain? Us too!" Foddies founders Luke Lucas and Christina Glentis say.
Foddies specialises in "high-quality, fructose-friendly food" and caters to those with food allergies and intolerances.
For the uninitiated, a "foddie" is a disciple of a low-FODMAP diet, which is used to treat patients who suffer from the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fructose malabsorption, lactose and gluten intolerances.
Foddies Cafe is set to be Melbourne's first cafe dedicated to low-FODMAP and gluten-free food – and they won't be charging you extra for it, either.
The eatery's focus will be on making food that foddies and coeliacs/gluten intolerants aren't often able to enjoy when they eat out.
"Melbourne should be excited because people with food allergies and intolerances are no longer being treated as second-class citizens. Melburnians will finally have the freedom of enjoying a café that not only caters to their dietary requirements, but also has great food too," Luke says.
The cafe will be opening at 181 Victoria Street, Albert Park in a month's time.
Source:The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Food, Isabelle Lanem, July 10th 2015
