Madison is a rare city in our database: of the 4 verified addresses, 4 are fully dedicated kitchens, and none carries a flagged risk. Rarer still, one of them is a brewery — beer being, alongside bread, the product a celiac usually gives up first. The other three cover lunch, pastries and bread.

The city in numbers

Madison's 4 verified addresses, by type
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Patisserie1
Bakery1

The brewery and the food truck

ALT Brew, 1808 Wright Street, is a fully gluten-free nano-brewery and taproom, founded in 2013. All its beers are brewed from naturally gluten-free grains — sorghum, rice, buckwheat — with no barley, no wheat, no rye, and on exclusively dedicated equipment. The distinction matters: this is not a wheat beer with the gluten enzymatically removed, but a beer that never contained any. The official website, a Channel 3000 article and Yelp all agree.

Caracas Arepas, 711 State St, is a gluten-free food truck specializing in filled Venezuelan arepas, made in a fully dedicated kitchen, with vegetarian and dairy-free options. The recipes come from the founder’s mother, and the local celiac community has made it a go-to address. Status confirmed by Yelp reviews describing an entirely gluten-free kitchen.

The chocolate shop and the bakery

Madison Chocolate Company, 5521 Odana Road, is a fully gluten-free bakery-chocolate shop and café, founded in 2013 by chocolatier Megan Hile: croissants, focaccias and artisan chocolates, made with organic, local ingredients. This is confirmed by the official website and by the blog Destination Vegan Gluten Free.

Paleo Mama Bakery, 961 South Park Street, is a 100% gluten-free bakery producing more than 70 items made with alternative flours — almond, coconut, cassava, arrowroot. It is distributed in more than twenty stores and restaurants across Wisconsin and Illinois, which also makes it a supplier worth knowing beyond the city. The official website reads “Everything is Gluten-Free” and presents itself as a producer of foods safe for celiacs.

Our tips on site

  • Say “I have celiac disease,” not just “gluten-free”: in the United States, the latter often reads as a chosen diet.
  • At the bar, tell “gluten-free” apart from “gluten-removed.” ALT Brew brews with no gluten-containing grain from the start; so-called “gluten-removed” beers, common elsewhere, start from barley and are not suitable for a celiac.
  • Two reference associations in the United States: the GIG (Gluten Intolerance Group) and Beyond Celiac.
  • Continuing your trip through the United States? Our guide to gluten-free travel in the USA covers the rest of the country, and dedicated kitchen or gluten-free menu, the difference explains exactly what a dedicated kitchen guarantees.

Explore the 4 addresses

Every address cited has been verified at the source: existence, actual gluten-free level, risks. All 4 are on the Nutrixe map — and if your Madison address is missing, suggest it. The full list is on our page gluten-free restaurants in Madison.

Figures at the time of publication. The database grows every week: today's exact count is always on the map.