The Lonely Plate

A brand new website has launched called The Lonely Plate: The Food Allergy Guide to Fun and Safe Dining.

Founded by former News Coverage Manager at CNN's Washington Bureau, it features (and is actively soliciting) reviews of restaurants, hotels, airlines and kid-friendly venues. One nice feature is that you can select reviews by category of insensitivity - milk, eggs, tree nuts, gluten, etc. I've found a big gap in information about airlines and airports, so The Lonely Plate is one more resource to checkout. It's too early to tell if this will me the ONE that manages to truly consolidate information, or if it's just another drop in the infinite universe of online health information.

What's this blog about?

Whether you have diabetes or celiac disease, a peanut allergy or lactose intolerance, you still love to travel. The goal of this blog is to make travel easier for you, when you travel for business or adventure, alone or with family.

The idea came about because I believe that food sensitivities should not be an impediment to seeing the world.

Searching the internet, I found many resources on traveling with various food sensitivities, but even the most polished looking among them was incomplete. Some of the gluten-free travel sites, for example, offer reviews of restaurants in major European cities like Paris or Rome, but no information about traveling even slightly off the beaten path. There are tips and tricks to traveling with ease, and soon they will be featured here.

My intention is not to reinvent the wheel but to aggregate the best information on the web about traveling with dietary restrictions. This will be a work in progress for some time, so please bear with me. If you have a resource to share, I'd love to know about it.

Bon voyage!