Seven kitchens in DC, Maryland and Virginia publish a gluten-free claim that covers more than a single dish. Five make that claim about the room. Two make it about everything they bake, without describing the facility. We keep those apart below, because to a coeliac diner they are not the same promise. Every entry quotes the venue’s own published words, links to the exact page we read, and carries the date we read it: 28 July 2026.
A dedicated kitchen handles no gluten at all — cross-contact is designed out of the building. A gluten-free item on a shared line was built without gluten ingredients, but flour may still be in the air, on the surfaces, and in the shared fryer. If you have coeliac disease, that difference is the entire question. So we never merge the two into one list. The dedicated kitchens are first. The shared-line dishes are further down, under their own heading, with the question you should ask attached.
We have quoted each venue’s wording and linked the page it appears on so you can read it yourself. We did not paraphrase upward: where a venue says “everything we make is gluten-free” we did not translate that into “certified dedicated facility,” and the label above each name tells you which of the two you are getting. We certify nothing here — the evidence is each venue’s own published statement, linked so you can read it without trusting us. Speaking with these kitchens directly is the next tier we are building.
The bakery’s own site calls it “Washington DC’s premier 100% gluten-free bakery” and says its goods are baked “in a dedicated gluten-free kitchen.” It also describes itself as “proudly woman-owned.” The site marks individual items for other allergens — its cinnamon bun is flagged nut-free but contains soy flour and dairy, and its glazed donut is listed vegan, soy-free and nut-free.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own site
Rise says “everything” it makes is gluten-free, and its about page records that founder Mike Koritko opened the bakery in 2014 after being diagnosed with coeliac disease. 2409 18th Street NW. Read carefully: the page states that everything they bake is gluten-free; it does not use the phrase “dedicated facility,” so neither do we.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own site
Chaia’s FAQ states that “All of our in-house products are 100% nut-free and gluten-free.” The carve-out, in Chaia’s own words: “The cookies are made in a facility with nuts, so we cannot guarantee they are 100% nut-free.” That carve-out is about nuts, and it does not transfer to the tacos — but it is Chaia’s own limit and we publish it beside the claim rather than below it.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own FAQ
The bakery describes itself as “a totally gluten-free facility” at 8218 Wisconsin Avenue, and its owner writes that the bakery was built gluten-free specifically “to avoid any cross-contamination.” Also bakes for other restricted diets. Check their site for current hours before travelling.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own site
Rooted3 publishes “100% GLUTEN FREE & FREE OF THE TOP 9 ALLERGENS” alongside 100% organic and 100% plant-based, and describes the kitchen as “fully celiac safe.” 4916 Cordell Avenue. This is the widest allergen claim on the page — and the one most worth confirming in person, because a top-nine claim covers a great deal of ground.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own site
Publishes a “Certified FREE FROM” list naming gluten and wheat, all nuts, peanut, sesame, soy, fish and shellfish — and separately notes it is “not certified but proudly corn free.” That last line is why we trust the first: a bakery that marks which of its claims are not certified is drawing the distinction we would have had to draw for it. 22000 Dulles Retail Plaza.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own site
The chain states plainly: “Little Beet restaurants are 100% gluten free.” It lists the DC area among its markets. Read carefully: the site makes the claim at chain level and does not publish a per-branch address on that page, so confirm the specific location you are heading to before you rely on it.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · chain’s own site
These kitchens publish gluten-free dishes, and we have read the page that names them. What we did not find on the page we read was a facility-level statement — so they sit here rather than above. That is a note about wording we could read, not a judgement about anyone’s kitchen. Ask about cross-contact before you order.
The last entry below is a different case again, and we have labelled it differently: a bakery we could not verify because the source would not open for us. That is our limitation, not a finding about them.
Springbone’s site says “no seed oils, no refined sugar, no gluten — ever” and lists DC among its markets. It does not state a dedicated gluten-free facility or describe cross-contact handling, so we read this as an ingredient claim rather than a kitchen claim.
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Source read 28 July 2026
Terra’s published menu names a “Gluten Free Home Made Waffle Cone.” That is an item-level claim on the menu we read; the same page does not describe the shop as a dedicated gluten-free facility, so the cone is what we can stand behind here, not the store.
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Source read 28 July 2026
A gluten-free bakery in Falls Church; its ordering site is titled for gluten-free baking and lists the quiche and the chocolate chip cookies. We hold a note that this is a fully dedicated gluten-free kitchen — and the directory listing behind that note returned an access error to us on the day we checked, in a plain fetch and again in a full browser.
That is a failure on our side, not a mark against this bakery. We will not repeat a claim we could not open, and we will not let our own broken link read as a warning about someone else’s kitchen. Ask them directly — we expect a good answer — and we will move this entry up the moment we can read the source ourselves.
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Source read 28 July 2026 · venue’s own ordering site
When you see the word “verified” on theBEAT, here is exactly what it means: our editors located a named, dated source for that claim — a menu, an allergen guide, a certification listing — and kept the receipt. It means the claim was checked; it does not mean the dish is guaranteed. Kitchens change faster than any database. Verified is where your conversation with the restaurant starts, not where it ends.
A receipt also has a shelf life. Every claim on this page carries the date we read its source, and we re-read on a cycle — so you can always see how fresh a receipt is and judge it for yourself rather than taking a word like “verified” on trust. How the shelf life works →
This page is editorial, not medical advice, and nothing on it is a certification. Every claim here is a reading of what a venue published about itself on the date shown. Menus change, staff change, and a shared fryer can appear overnight. If you have coeliac disease or a serious allergy, confirm with the kitchen every time — the duty for what comes out of it sits with the restaurant, and the conversation is worth having anyway.
Think one of these entries is wrong, or run one of these kitchens? Tell us and we will fix it — corrections are published, not quietly patched. More on method: how the tags work.
Also in The Edit: kitchens that put a nut claim in writing — four of the kitchens above appear there too, with their allergen wording quoted separately — and certified kosher in the DMV, read straight off the certifying bodies’ own lists.
