Gluten Free and Vegan in New Haven

On a recent trip to New Haven to spend time with a friend (it is somewhat halfway between our two towns) I had a chance to explore some veg and gluten-free menus. We had lunch at Claire's Corner Copia, a vegetarian cafe right across from the Yale campus which caters to vegetarians, vegans, and gluten-free diets. The menu is posted on an enormous blackboard with everything clearly labeled and options for making your dish vegan and/or GF. There were so many choices it was actually hard to decide. I had the Avocado Plus Salad with spicy buffalo soy chicken which seemed to be a homemade seitan (not GF) deliciously spiced. Their bakery case displayed yummy-looking vegan cupcakes and other treats, unfortunately not vegan and GF. There is a cookbook, Claires Corner Copia Cookbook, which I had never heard of but my friend tells me has been around for a long time.

 In my quest for vegan-GF eats in New Haven I also came across a pizza placeCafe Romeo which offers vegan cheese and a personal-sized GF pizza; check out their menu.

And we walked by Lalibela, an Ethiopian restaurant offering vegan and vegetarian menu items. Be aware that injera, the Ethiopian sourdough bread served with the meal instead of utensils, is made from teff (gluten-free) but can have other non-GF flours as well.

My husband the architect gave us a lovely walking tour of Yale architecture, including the three on-campus museums designed by famous architects like Louis Kahn, and we enjoyed walking through the many Georgian courtyards. Definitely worth a day trip, easily accessed from Route 95, and not very far off the highway to parking which is only blocks away from the Yale campus (and Claire's!!!).