Several chain restaurants, including P. F. Chang’s and Uno’s Chicago Grill, offer gluten-free selections, and a few independent New Jersey restaurants, including La Riviera Trattoria and Hailey’s Harp & Pub, an Irish-themed bar in Metuchen, carry Red Bridge, a gluten-free beer introduced by Anheuser-Busch in 2006. (Park & Orchard, an eclectic restaurant in East Rutherford that offers a celiac-friendly menu, stocks Greens, a double-dark wheat-free beer from Belgium.)
“We started the gluten-free menu two years ago because we just had so many requests,” said Steven Chia, the owner of A Taste of Asia in Chatham; it serves mostly Malaysian cuisine and has been open since 2000.