Gluten-free Cuisine à la Da’Mar – Healthy Restaurant in Split

The renowned Split chef has decided to apply his rich knowledge of gluten-free foods and recipes at our Da’Mar restaurant, within a unique, as he calls it, Mediterranean-gluten-free cuisine. The freshest Mediterranean ingredients along with his mother’s, grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s recipes make up the integral part of our healthy menu, which includes dishes such as homemade gnocchi with smoked salmon, olive oil and basil pesto, and chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream, where the chef uses a mix of potato, rice and almond flour, or tapioca flour.
While it is present of the aforementioned cereals and the flour derived from them, gluten can often also be found in bakery products, pasta and biscuits as well as other foods and products one would never suspect of, such as numerous sauces, stocks, juices, beers and cured meats. For this reason, designing new “à la Da’Mar” gluten-free specialties for guests with special dietary needs is an ongoing challenge for our chef.
Luckily, this creative chef has a supply of seasonal vegetables in his family garden, while he finds homemade eggs, meat and other groceries in the rural vicinity of Split. When asked to define a healthy diet, he claims: “If you pour bad fuel into your car, the engine will go, and the same goes for people”. He also highlights the fact that this region, due to its location, perfect climate and unpolluted soil, sea and rivers, has a great advantage over other areas.