GLUTEN FREE
If you're gluten intolerant, or just cooking for someone who is, you already know the drill - the anxious phone call before booking, the menu read twice, the "just a side salad" fallback when nothing feels safe.
We built Banksia so that call isn't necessary. Every single item on our menu can be made gluten free - not as an afterthought, but because we've built dietaries into our kitchen to handle it right. Every dish on our menu - from the wagyu to the barramundi to the lamb ribs - is built to be made gluten free. Our kitchen team treats every dietary requirement as seriously as a food safety issue, because that's exactly what it is.
Gluten has never entered our fryer. I was told to qualify this. Gluten has never eventered our fryer intentionally, and we clean it often. Neither has our coals, where we’ll cook your steak if you order it.
NOTE:
15 September update: As of today, we have 2 gluten contaminants in our kitchen. Pasta for kids & flour for our bread. That’s it. We treat them very carefully to ensure they don’t enter any other dishes.
Every commercial restaurant we have seen has the same liability waiver. We make every endeavour to respect your choices, and ensure your safety, however please be aware that there is always a risk due to contaminants being contained in our kitchen.
THE DETAILS
When you sit down, the first question you’ll be asked is ‘do you have any dietaries?’ Before you order drinks, before you order food. It’s first every time because its that important. You will see it on the bill when you pay - we will have written ‘Gluten Free’ on it.
We have built dietary considerations deeply into our mise-en-place. Thats the kitchen word for all the prepation that happens before you walk in. All the sauces, the garnishes, the slow cooked meats, the steaks, the fish. So we’ve got gluten free soy sauce instead of regular soy sauce. We have gluten free breadcrumbs, instead of regular ones. Bread is cut on a different cutting board, using a different knife, in a different part of the restaurant. Anything with common cooking just doesn’t get gluten.
The charcoal grill — naturally gluten-free cooking method, no flour-based marinades or crumbs anywhere near it
Sous vide preparation — our chicken breast, lamb ribs and chicken wings are cooked sous vide at precise temperatures in sealed bags, which is inherently about as contamination-proof as cooking gets.
Sauces & stocks audit — this is the part most restaurants get wrong and guests worry about most (soy sauce, thickened sauces, stock bases often hide gluten). We check everything.
Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Anything that people do leaves the door open for human error unfortunately. But we are trying as hard as we can. Every commercial restaurant we have seen has the same liability waiver. We make every endeavour to respect your choices, and ensure your safety, however please be aware that there is always a risk due to contaminants being contained in our kitchen. We do have flour that we use to bake our bread as an example.
How we approach Gluten Free Dining?
Reserve a table
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Yes. Gluten has never entered our fryer, so anything fried at Banksia is safe for gluten-free guests.
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It's not required, but if you'd like to talk through your specific needs before booking, we're always happy to chat -just call ahead or note it when you book online.
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We haven’t yet heard a request we couldn’t honour. Feel free to get in touch 0423 905 835