Gluten-Free Options in Spearfish, SD

What you can actually eat here

Most restaurants answer "do you have gluten-free options?" with a salad. This is the real list.

Marked gluten-free on our menu

• Steak Tips GF

  Sauteed with bacon, wine, garlic, Cajun seasoning and bleu cheese crumbles. The appetizer most people don't expect to be gluten-free.

• Eggplant Dip GF

  Roasted eggplant, coriander and cream cheese blend, scallions, feta, served with sweet potato chips.

• Italian Zoodles GF

  Zucchini noodles instead of pasta, with tomato, pesto, artichokes, garlic and parmesan. Add chicken, shrimp or blackened salmon.

• Portobella Stack GF

  Marinated portobella, zucchini and roasted red peppers over mashed potatoes with balsamic and chive oil.

Steaks, chops and entrees

Our steaks are seasoned and grilled, not floured or breaded, so the cut itself is gluten-free, the thing to watch is what comes with it. Order a petite filet, garlic butter sirloin, ribeye, New York strip or the Moroccan spiced lamb chops with a gluten-free side and tell your server you need it gluten-free. Every steak comes with a house salad, a cup of soup or a cup of chili; the house salad is the safe pick there. See our steaks and chops for the full lineup.

Burgers, with two swaps

Any hand-pattied burger can be made with a gluten-free lettuce bun and gluten-free fries. That covers all eleven builds, cheeseburger, lamb burger, gouda jalapeno, cowboy classic, pico avocado, black bleu and peppadew, steakhouse mushroom swiss, the Erock, shiitake, and the bison Ridge Rider Tatanka Warrior. You can swap any of them to a bison patty too. Full list on any burger on the menu.

Sides, this is the useful part

All of our sides are gluten-free except the french fries, and the fries can be made gluten-free by request. So: sweet potato chips, fresh fruit cup, basmati rice, broccoli and cheese, butter braised broccolini, truffle mashed potatoes, baked potato, baked yam with honey butter. Baked potatoes and yams are available after 5 PM. Side substitutions beyond fries or sweet potato chips are +$1.25.

Salads

House salad, Sherry Berry, Cobb, beet salad and the classic Greek are all built without gluten-containing ingredients, ask your server about dressings and we'll confirm at the table. Add chicken, steak, shrimp, blackened ahi or blackened salmon.

How to order gluten-free

1. Say it when you sit down, not when the food arrives. It gets written on the ticket and follows the order into the kitchen.
2. Say how strict you need it. "Celiac" and "avoiding gluten" get handled differently, and knowing which one you are helps us give you a straight answer.
3. Ask for the swaps by name, gluten-free lettuce bun, gluten-free fries, a gluten-free side instead of fries.
4. Ask about the dish you actually want. Sauces, glazes and dressings are where gluten usually hides. Our menu changes often, so the current answer is the one your server has.

Gluten-free beer and drinks

We keep Lakefront New Grist Pilsner and Lakefront New Grist IPA, both gluten-free, so you're not stuck with a soda while everyone else works through the seventeen rotating drafts.

Beyond beer: our cocktails lean on spirits, fresh citrus and house-made mixers, including our own grenadine, bitters and michelada mix. If you skip alcohol as well, there are two mocktails, the Bowl Cut and the Scratch Shirley, plus a long non-alcoholic beer list. More on gluten-free beer on tap and in bottles.

Other allergies and diets

Vegetarian and vegan. There's real overlap between gluten-free and plant-based diners, and several of our gluten-free plates are also meat-free, the Italian Zoodles, the Portobella Stack and the Eggplant Dip. The full rundown, marked honestly for what's vegan versus vegetarian, is on our vegetarian and vegan options page.

Dairy. A lot of our kitchen runs on cheese and cream, goat cheese, gorgonzola, feta, cream sauces, truffle mashed potatoes. Dairy-free is possible but it narrows the menu, so ask your server which plates work that night. Grilled steaks and chops with rice or a plain baked potato are usually the easiest starting point.

Nuts. Beyond the peanut butter on The Wilson, pistachios appear on the Sherry Berry salad. Tell us the allergy and we'll tell you what to avoid.

Eating gluten-free in the Black Hills

Traveling gluten-free through this part of South Dakota is harder than it should be. A lot of the region's food is fried, breaded, or comes out of a chain kitchen where nobody can answer a specific question. If you've spent a trip eating from a cooler in the back of the car, you know the pattern.

We're in downtown Spearfish, right off I-90, which makes us a straightforward stop between Rapid City and Devils Tower, or on the way to and from Spearfish Canyon, Deadwood and Sturgis. Sturgis is about twenty minutes east. Deadwood and Lead are twenty to twenty-five minutes south. Spearfish Canyon starts at the south edge of town.

It also means you're not sending the rest of your table somewhere else. One kitchen that does gluten-free entrees, bison burgers, salmon and halibut, plus vegetarian plates and two gluten-free beers, is usually easier than negotiating with four people about where to eat.

Hours, takeout and practical stuff

We open at 11 AM every day of the week. Monday through Thursday and Sunday we're open until 10 PM; Friday and Saturday until 11 PM. Walk-ins are welcome, and we take call-ahead orders at (605) 717-1255, worth doing if you want the kitchen to have your gluten-free notes before you arrive.

Parties of 8 or more are subject to an automatic 18% gratuity. Takeout is available; if you're ordering gluten-free to go, say so on the phone so it's on the ticket from the start.

Frequently asked questions