About feefrae
We built the trust layer for allergy dining.
By the feefrae editorial team · Belfast & the UK · Last reviewed 31 May 2026
Most restaurant reviews tell you whether the food was good. feefrae tells you what happened when someone managing the same allergy, coeliac disease or intolerance as you ate there — what they ordered, how staff handled it, and whether they reacted. We’re building it for the UK and Ireland, and we’re live across the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The problem
If you live with coeliac disease or a serious food intolerance, you already know the routine. You scan a menu for the one dish you can have. You quiz a member of staff who isn’t sure. You weigh up how badly a mistake will go, and half the time you stay home instead. The information you need to decide is scattered across review sites, Facebook groups, and word of mouth — and almost none of it is organised around the question that matters: can I eat here without getting ill?
That’s the gap feefrae exists to close. One place to find venues that take allergens seriously, with the evidence laid out plainly so you can make the call yourself.
Where the data comes from
We start with the official record. Every venue on feefrae is drawn from the Food Standards Agency register — the same hygiene-rating data the FSA publishes for every food business. That gives us 55,127 consumer-facing places to eat across 48 council areas, each carrying its real FSA hygiene rating rather than a number we made up.
On top of that we cross-reference independent accreditation. 434 of those venues currently hold a Coeliac UK Gluten Free Accreditation — meaning a third party has audited their kitchen against published standards for preparation, staff training and cross-contact prevention. Accreditation is the strongest signal we can show, and we show it plainly.
For places where diners actually talk about eating free-from, you’ll also find a short, allergen-scoped read on what they say — the gluten-free options, the cross-contact, the staff who get it — so you can take the temperature of a venue without trawling hundreds of reviews. 508 venues have one so far. We keep it to what’s discussed, never a verdict, and you’ll only see one where the picture genuinely leans positive.
What “allergy-friendly” means here
We don’t hand out a green tick and hope. Safety information on feefrae is tiered by how well it’s evidenced, and we always tell you which tier you’re looking at:
- Independently accredited — a recognised body has audited the kitchen. The highest bar, and the rarest.
- Vendor-stated — the venue itself has told us how it handles allergens (dedicated fryer, separate prep, allergen menu). Useful, but it’s their claim, and we label it as such.
- Community signal — what diners who share your needs have reported about a place. Context, not a guarantee.
- Summarised from reviews — a read on what other diners have said about the free-from experience. We describe what’s discussed, never declare a place safe. The weakest tier: a starting point, not a verdict.
The line we won’t cross is pretending a place is safe when nobody has actually checked. You make the final decision — our job is to give you the most honest version of the evidence.
Where we are
feefrae is early, and we’d rather be honest about that than oversell it. We launched in Northern Ireland — small enough to cover properly, and a place where the people building this know the ground — and we’re now live right across the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with Ireland to follow.
Run a venue that takes allergens seriously, or spotted something we’ve got wrong? Tell us. The guide gets better the more of you push back on it.
Why you can trust what you read here
Every diner report on feefrae is first-hand lived experience — a real visit by a real person managing the exact allergy or coeliac disease in question, not a generic star rating. That’s the strongest kind of evidence there is for a question like this, and it’s the whole reason feefrae exists rather than another listings site.
We’re also deliberate about what we won’t do. We never certify a venue as safe, never sell a better confidence signal, and never hide a negative report — venues are free to market themselves; the diner-evidence just isn’t for sale. If you want the detail: how confidence works walks through exactly how the evidence is weighed, and what we don’t do sets out the lines we won’t cross.
feefrae is not a medical authority and gives no medical advice. For guidance on your condition, go to the people who do it best: Coeliac UK, Anaphylaxis UK, and the Food Standards Agency.