In Paris, lunch is the easy meal for anyone avoiding wheat. Several of the city’s dedicated gluten-free kitchens, Manicaretti among them, stop serving once the lunch rush ends, and traditional French sauces often lean on flour. That makes a gluten free dinner in Paris the part of the trip worth planning ahead. Below are the places where the entire kitchen is wheat-free and the lights stay on after dark, followed by a lunch stop and a morning route for bread and croissants. Label rules and restaurant certifications that apply across the country are covered in the France-wide rundown of labels, certifications and ordering tips, so this page sticks to Paris.
Neapolitan pizza a few blocks from the Arc de Triomphe
Little Nonna, at 12 avenue Niel in the 17th arrondissement, is a fully gluten-free Italian restaurant that took over the former Casa Luca Niel space in November 2017. Pizza is the bestseller, baked Neapolitan-style in a wood-fired oven, while the pasta, gnocchi, bread and focaccia are all made in-house. The menu follows recipes from the notebooks of chef Marco Casali’s grandmother, and the desserts, tiramisu included, follow suit. The dining room is large by Parisian standards, so groups of ten or more can reserve. Vegetarian and vegan dishes are on the menu.
Handmade pasta in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower
Su Misura, at 22 avenue Rapp in the 7th, is a small, traditional dining room a short walk from the Champ de Mars, with white tablecloths and an entirely gluten-free menu. Bread, stuffed pasta and desserts are made on site. The restaurant shares its owners with Tasca, a sister restaurant with the same kind of Italian cooking on the other side of the tower.
Thai food, twice over
Kapunka is the city’s reference point for gluten-free Thai. The original at 51 rue Saint-Sauveur in the 2nd sits on a side street off rue Montorgueil, and every dish in the kitchen is gluten-free, with bottled beer the only exception. Pad thai comes in a vegetarian version and a vegan one. The room is tiny, which makes a reservation sensible, and the group also runs branches at 32 rue Delambre in the 14th and 139 rue Cardinet in the 17th.
Around the corner from Sentier metro, at 4 rue de Damiette, Kapunka Vegan opened in 2018 as the first fully plant-based Thai restaurant in Paris. The short menu includes papaya salad, spring rolls, a Thom Kha soup with galangal and lemongrass, a red curry with rice noodles and peanuts, and black rice with mango for dessert, with a banana cake as the alternative. Wine is vegan as well. For a fully plant-based gluten free dinner in Paris, this is the address to start with. Another kitchen that is entirely plant-based and wheat-free is a pastry shop in Nice, where the cakes and the brunch menu both skip gluten.
The lunch that sells out
Manicaretti, at 60 rue de Paradis in the 10th, serves lunch only, and once the day’s dishes are gone the counter closes. Owner Vittoria cooks organic, seasonal Italian food, with a short rotating menu of pastas, arancini and lasagna, sides, and a coconut-chocolate fondant for dessert. The name translates roughly as “little exquisite dishes,” and a lunchtime line of Parisians forms alongside the celiac visitors. Arriving before opening is the safest plan.
Montmartre mornings and bread from Oberkampf
Two good stops sit within a few minutes of each other below Sacré-Cœur. La Manufacture Sans Gluten, at 2 rue Androuet in the 18th, is a shop with barely room to turn around, selling homemade pastries, cakes and savory items to take away, croissants and pains au chocolat among them. A few streets away at 27 rue de Clignancourt, Café Mareva serves gluten-free and lactose-free brunch built around sweet potato waffles, with vegetarian and vegan dishes on the menu. A comparable all-gluten-free bakery and tea room operates in Alsace, where a bakery and a restaurant that share a name in Strasbourg cover bread and a sit-down menu.
For bread, the destination is Chambelland, at 14 rue Ternaux in the 11th, with a second shop in the 17th. The loaves are made from rice and buckwheat flour in a bakery that handles no wheat, and the pain du village is the flagship. The sweet pains de sucre, somewhere between brioche and baguette, are the usual souvenir to carry home. Chambelland’s rice flours also go into the loaves at a gluten-free bakery set inside an art gallery in Bordeaux, which is fully dedicated.
Ordering in French
Dedicated kitchens remove most of the guesswork, but anywhere else two sentences do the work of a long explanation:
- “Je suis cœliaque : je ne peux pas manger de gluten, même en petite quantité.” (I have celiac disease: I can’t eat gluten, even a small amount.)
- “Est-ce que la cuisine est entièrement sans gluten ?” (Is the kitchen entirely gluten-free?)
On packaged food, EU rules require wheat and other gluten grains to be highlighted in the ingredient list, so “blé” (wheat), “orge” (barley) and “seigle” (rye) stand out in bold.
Addresses at a glance
- Little Nonna, 12 avenue Niel, 17th
- Su Misura, 22 avenue Rapp, 7th
- Kapunka, 51 rue Saint-Sauveur, 2nd, plus branches in the 14th and 17th
- Kapunka Vegan, 4 rue de Damiette, 2nd
- Manicaretti, 60 rue de Paradis, 10th (lunch only)
- La Manufacture Sans Gluten, 2 rue Androuet, 18th
- Café Mareva, 27 rue de Clignancourt, 18th
- Chambelland, 14 rue Ternaux, 11th
Addresses, opening hours and menus change often, so check the venue’s website or social profile before going. People with celiac disease should confirm preparation details with staff, especially at Kapunka Vegan, where gluten-free status is worth asking about directly.
