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About Aubrey's List

Restaurants you can actually trust to be gluten-free.

A community directory of how safe restaurants really are for gluten-free and celiac diners, kept current by people who share the need.

Our mission

Generic reviews bury the details that matter with a gluten allergy, like whether the fryer is dedicated or the staff understands cross-contamination. That knowledge lives in the community, and it goes stale: a kitchen that was safe last year may have changed.

So we built a directory where celiac and gluten-free diners record what they know and keep it current. Everything here exists to help you decide, with confidence, whether to eat somewhere.

We're starting with a public pilot in Denver, Colorado. A few well-attested local listings beat a thin national scattering.

How trust works

A listing's trust summary is a roll-up of evidence you can see for yourself, never a hidden score. Each attribute shows the count and recency of community input, like "Dedicated fryer: 8 confirm / 1 dispute · last confirmed 3 weeks ago." The evidence stays visible below the summary.

  • Confirm or dispute, openly. One vote per person per claim, changeable or retractable anytime. No hidden formula.
  • Recency counts. A claim not confirmed within six months is flagged "may be stale", not hidden.
  • Recent harm is never buried. A recent "got glutened" report flags a listing no matter how many older confirmations it has.

Safety signals never rely on color alone. Each state gets its own icon and text label, so the meaning survives greyscale and color-vision differences.

Celiac-safeGluten-friendlyRecent incidentDedicated fryer

What the community attests

The headline distinction is celiac-safe vs. gluten-friendly: a kitchen that takes cross-contamination seriously versus one that just offers GF options. Mixing those up is the failure this site exists to prevent, so we surface it first. Every listing also tracks the same fixed attributes, so listings stay comparable:

  • Dedicated or separate fryer (yes, no, or shared oil).
  • A dedicated, labeled gluten-free menu.
  • Off-menu gluten-free on request: they'll adapt dishes when asked.
  • Gluten-free substitutes: bread, buns, pizza crust, pasta.

How to contribute

Browsing is open to everyone, no account needed. Contributions carry a name, so adding to the record takes a quick sign-in. Once you're in:

  1. Sign in with Google.
  2. Add a restaurant the community should vet.
  3. Attest its GF attributes: confirm or dispute what others report.
  4. Report it if you got glutened, so recent harm stays visible.