Good restaurant chains for dairy/egg allergies?

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I took dd1 out for a meal for the very first time last week. She's 3 and it was to mcdonalds! They had all the allergy info on the back of the paper on the tray, I could have cried it was so easy, and so lovely having her join in with us all. Granted, all she ate were the chips and so she was starving when we got home, but still, she could have had more.

Are there any other restaurant chains that are that good for dealing with allergies? I had a look a while ago and couldn't really find anything - eg pizza express gave her the option of a green salad and water, nice. It would be do nice to have more options.

Btw, my mum was with us, and even she was surprised we'd not been out before. Makes me realise how little parents of non allergic kids must appreciate how restrictive it can be.

No dairy/egg allergy but nuts and seseme seeds.

Wagamammas have a book with ingredients in and are always happy to look up for allergies.

We also went to Giraffe at the weekend and they were also very helpful, also had a book.

Leon is great too (although not sure they mark egg, but it is easy to see which foods are good), I would also second Wagamamas especially as dairy is naturally fairly rare in the type of food they do.

If you go onto the pizzahut website they have a pretty comprehensive list of ingredients/allergen free. etc. It also mentions about taking in your own base for them to cook - for the gluten free people

Thanks all, not any of those near us (actually, maybe pizza hut, will have a look), but all good to know for the future. Any others?

DD (aged 2) has dairy and egg allergies - she can have the fishfinger happy meal in McDonalds (with fries or fruit bag and orange juice, usually) and spaghetti bolognese in both Pizza Hut and Pizza Express. We always tell them about her allergies when we order in pizza places and there's never been a problem.

She's been ok with burger king chicken-whatever-they-are bits in the kids meal too. She did once have some KFC (with the skin peeled off) and was ok with that but it's risky. The KFC allergy information isn't on the website but is pinned up in the shop - I think there is one type of chicken that's ok but it might be a spicy one - can't remember exactly. (Grandparents all live quite a distance and this is usually at motorway services).

She's had a curry(!) at our local indian. The samosas and popadoms (not the sauces) were fine and she could have some of the lamb mince (not sure what it was called) but not the chicken because it was all marinated in yogurt.

We've never tried mexican (but Chiquitos is a non-starter if the website is to be believed) or chinese (no noodles or egg fried rice at least).

If we're in a random pub/restaurant we usually get her either sausages or fish (fingers or pan fried if they have it) with beans or peas. Wherever we've been we've found people to be extremely helpful when we mention the allergies - they always take us seriously and if they don't know what's in something (e.g. some food comes in catering packs with no ingredients listed) then they've done her something else like a chicken breast with chips or a ham sandwich with no spread.

Recently we got some crusty bread rolls from a farm shop and they must have had some egg/milk in them because she came up in a rash and complained it "tasted funny" so I'm hopeful that if we did give her something she wasn't supposed to have then she'd stop eating it fairly quickly. We've been very fortunate that she hasn't had a serious reaction since her first (face swelling) one at 6 months but we're fairly cautious - although from this post I'm sure it sounds like all we do is eat fast food!

Sorry, only just seen the further replies. Thanks for the suggestions, I think it is mostly a matter of getting the confidence up to start trying places.

With the pizza places, don't you worry about cross contamination? Even if they leave the cheese off, it'll still be baked in the same oven and be on the same surfaces that have had oozy drippy cheese on? I'm a bit nervous about that, although I suppose we do have the epipen but I'd rather not use it if I can help it!

DD is severely dairy/soya intolerant (although ok with egg) and I have to say I think McDonalds are the best too.

She has the fish finger happy meal.

Had a bit of a bad experience with Pizza Hut myself as although they have the info online (did not know that till afterwards) the staff in the restaurant don't know anything and they had no book or anything and DD ended up eating something they said she was ok with and wasn't and came up in an awful rash all over face/mouth etc

Nandos have been very helpful and they have a book they will get out and go through with you about what is in what iyswim

Oooo, nandos, there's an idea. Never been to one, but there is one really local to us so could work... Cheers!

We tend to go to burger king/mcdonalds as it us just so much easier than anywhere else.

We stopped at tebay services for a change the other week which is all lovely fresh produce all healthy and lovely, but trying to find something for ds was such a nightmare that I wished we had just stopped at a fast good chain.

In general chains are better as they have good allergy info.

Pizza express were very helpful, as were wagamamas. There was pretty much nothing in kfc that didn't have egg or milk in so ds just had chips.
Frankie and benny's were pretty helpful too.

I'd second Nandos and Frankie and Benny's. F&B's even brought food out so I could read the labels to be absolutely sure.

We've been to Carluccio's lots - they have a huge book full of ingredients but if you know what you're looking for it's fine.
dd allergic to eggs, nuts fish and dairy. She doesn't eat a full meal anyway so we usually get her olives, parma ham and foccaccia. The pasta is egg free so the bolognese and tomato sauce is ok too.

Cross contamination is a worry sometimes though. e.g. we are going to a local pub with friends for lunch this weekend but because they specialise in fish have said they can't rule out the risk of contamination - even the chips are cooked in the same oil as the fish, so I am bringing dds own food and they can just put it on a plate for her.

a friend of mines son has a severe dairy and egg allergy and she was always impressed with Wagamamas!

beefeater, toby carvery (only been the once, but they steamed some veg for dd4, and prepared some non-basted meat for her), maccy d's, pizza hut (spag bol with garlic bread is dd4 favourite),

personally found frankie and bennys as useful as a chocolate teapot. same for KFC

a lot of places have allergen lists online, so check before you go, and also let the waiter/ress know what the allergies are at the point of ordering.

PIzza Express good. My LO can't have wheat either so I tend to take som erice or his own pasta and he enjoys a pasta sauce mixed with that. Would love for him to have pizza though

Gourmet burger kitchen is also good as they have a list of ingrediants