Review of Bang Bang

Horrible. They gluten poisoned me and I lost full days of work because of it. Their website says “All Gluten Free” extremely prominently right under their name, to the point where it’s practically a logo. I called and asked: Do you have a 100% Gluten Free kitchen? Yes, they said. I ordered our meal. When I picked it up I asked again, they reconfirmed.

But I got *full celiac symptoms*. When the 8 hour migraine cleared enough, I googled: a year ago a gf blogger tested their fried shallots and found gluten in them. They are still serving these A YEAR LATER and I am fairly sure this is what poisoned me. And I had an intuition about them (they didn’t seem freshly made and virtually all fried onion/shallot condiments have gluten/msg)

I emailed them and their response was that some of their ingredients may well have gluten in them “there’s no way to know.”

WHAT??? Then how do you possibly *call yourself gluten free*? How do you say that over the phone when I ask and not say: we don’t know about some ingredients but the kitchen is mostly gluten free. That is what every other restaurant in Portland does—they literally check the ingredients and tell you which ones they don’t know about. Other, just regular Portland restaurants will literally have the bartender check every ingredient in a cocktail to be sure! I guess I got too used to places caring, being honest and full of integrity—the opposite of what happened to me at Bang Bang:

This supposedly “gluten free” restaurant didn’t say “except for some ingredients which are x y z.” Totally deceptive business practice right there.

There are so many other places to eat that are actually gf on Portland. Teote, Cocina Verde are completely gf, and virtually ANY NORMAL RESTAURANT in Portland in my experience is safer than this place.

Also our chicken skewers were so undercooked we had to throw them out. Literally the worst dining experience I have had in Portland.

Celiac friendly?

No