The Floridian Gluten Free Review
Today I have another surprisingly yummy spot from St. Augustine to share with you all! The Floridian is where we ate the first night we were there and it was so good! I found this spot on the Find Me Gluten Free app. I usually plan ahead a bit with where we are going to eat when we are traveling but for some reason I didn’t with this trip and once we got there I was a bit nervous because I am such a big planner {especially with food and my allergy} but I was pleasantly surprised with all of the options on Find Me Gluten Free.
There were TONS of options for us to choose from! This was the first one I picked and I am so glad because I hadn’t had a gluten free homemade biscuit not from a box in YEARS. I will share more about it below!
To start we got the Biscuit and Belly which was a gluten free buttermilk biscuit with braised pork belly, hot sauce honey, Lil Moo cheese, fancy mustard, and Bourbon-Apple Butter. It was seriously so good, I am not even a huge pork belly person usually but this was GOOD! All of the sauces that were on the plate mixed together so well and the hot sauce honey really put the dish over the top! I was so impressed with the biscuits and how crispy the pork belly was. I loved it and it was a perfect sized appetizer for two people to share!
Then for my main dish, the waitress didn’t want me to get sick from the fryer so I decided to get the Fried Chicken Sandwich but I got the chicken grilled with all the same toppings. It was so yummy! It was called the South-East Fried Chicken Sandwich and it was a citrus-herb marinated chicken breast, rice-flour dusted, fried and stacked on ciabatta with lemon aioli and marinated collard-cabbage slaw, plus a drizzle of hot-sauce honey. The only thing I would change would for the mayo sauce to not be citrus, that was a funky taste to get through but it was obviously not too horrible because I ate the ENTIRE thing. This might look messy but the slaw on the sandwich was really actually good and I am not a huge fan of slaw usually! Dustin got the fried chicken sandwich as well but his was fried and he loved it! I should also mention that the potatoes were covered in rosemary and absolutely delish!
Here are a couple of screenshots of their menu items! If you click each photo it will take you to their full menu!
I feel like I can’t say this enough but I was so impressed with this place and would absolutely go back! There were so many options and I wanted to try a few other things! I would absolutely recommend it if you are ever in St. Augustine! As always if you have any questions, feel free to email me at tarynintotravel@gmail.com! You can also comment below and I will get back to you ASAP!