Glass Onion

I was interested to see an app. that would help those of us with food allergies. However, you’re limited to what they consider an allergy. I’m vegetarian but also allergic to garlic and mushrooms. As you can imagine, this is problematic as a vegetarian. I’m surprised that it’s not possible to list garlic. It might not be that common as an allergy (?) but it’s certainly common as an intolerance.

Doesn’t take into account those on a low FODMAP diet. Even with the Gluten Free filter selection you still get the option of onion loaf.

I applaud the idea, but the execution is appalling. It’s hard to navigate, the food details don’t load and you don’t know if this is because the filter is working or if the app is just buggy. No detail on where the allergen is in the meal so you could ask to swap or omit something from the meal. It’s taken me 30mins to navigate a harvester menu. I’d rather just have it on the menu or speak to someone. This is just an poor dining experience to have to go through.

I had hoped that an app with onion in the name would include a filter, or ingredients reference, for onions. Without this, the app is of limited use for me.

Trying to establish allergen information for the menu at a Vintage Inn seemed to indicate that all possible menu choices, particularly Specials, had been listed with no reference at all to their actual availability. In other words, this app just gave us a very long list to navigate and it would have been more conveniently and better presented to put the allergens on the local menu. Time to go back to basics?

You have to allow the app access to your location for it to work. It does not need to know your location to show dietary information for a chain such as Harvester. This is clearly a data mining app and should be banned. Download at your own peril.

Filter is nice - but I would like it to show the opposite. Ie show which menu items do contain the allergen - so that these can be avoided...... or to highlight the menu items with the allergen

Love the idea, especially as my wife is celiac. However, I get a different result when filtering “Gluten Free” under Dietary (0 dishes) from the one I get when filtering Gluten (and all variants) from the Allergen filter.

Used this App a couple of times recently. The biggest problem is that if you use the Gluten Free filter no food options show at all. You don’t know this until you have tried every food category, so it is very time consuming and frustrating. If the Gluten Free filter showed a list of all the available GF menu options straight away this would be a massive improvement. We had to search through every menu option (there were about 20 of them) and read the allergens before realising there were only about 3 available gluten free choices. It would have been far better to simply have GF next to the gluten free items on the menu.

I am gluten intolerant, so I am finding this app very useful. I would have given it 5 stars but there is no way to contact them regarding errors. When you are dealing with intolerances that can badly affect people there really needs to be a contact option to correct mistakes. Lucky the error I wanted to correct is not to do with alergins, it is to do with photos. They have used the same photo for two different pubs, the Mill in Kingston and O’Neils in Wimbledon.