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Top Rated

27 Allergy-Friendly Wedding Venues

Our Top-Rated Wedding Venue Guide features 27 safe places to walk down the aisle or be a guest. See reviews highlighting a venue that can accommodate any allergy, staff that helped plan a fully nut-free wedding, chef who recreated a wedding menu dish allergen-free for a guest, and more! If you’re looking for a safe cake for your big day, see our Top-Rated Wedding Cake Shop Guide!

Allergy-Friendly Movie Theaters

These movie theaters roll out the red carpet for food allergies with clean seats, helpful staff and safe snacks. See our first allergy-friendly movie theater guide featuring Spokin users’ favorite places to watch the big screen! Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Our Favorite Food Allergy and Celiac TikTokers

Scrolling TikTok over Thanksgiving break is a given, whether you’re looking to pump the breaks on your Black Friday shopping, escape dicey family political conversations, or just simply looking to chill! Our Favorite TikTok Accounts Guide features creators to follow who manage food allergies or celiac, with gems like @zozomccormack, living her best Emily in Paris life while managing a tree nut allergy; @sarahandspices the big sister we wish every allergy kid had, showing how to navigate dating, friendships, dinner parties, and more; and of course @philhatesgluten, a great role model who proves that laughter truly is the best medicine! Follow @spokinapp on TikTok and tag us on your posts for a chance to get reposted!

Product Guides

Top-Rated Allergy-Friendly Puff Pastry

With Halloween over, let the holiday entertaining begin! From Thanksgiving to New Years Eve, few things feel as festive as puff pastry! We’re rolling out our Top Rated Allergy-Friendly Puff Pastry Guide featuring 16 of our faves, including 2 Spokin Verified Brands: Sweet Loren’s, who launched the hottest new product of the year and Gluten Free Easy, who we hard launch on our app today. Go to the Spokin app and see how many of the 16 are safe for you, because just like puff pastry, we’ve already done the work for you!

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28 Allergy-Friendly Chocolate Spreads

Labor Day Weekend is coming just in time to save us from the mad rush of back-to-school! If chocolate isn’t the answer, we don’t know what is. Dip into our Top-Rated Allergy-Friendly Chocolate Spread Guide— with 28 spreads we’ve got you covered no matter what allergies you’re managing, even chocolate! 👀 BTS is hectic enough and we’ve already done the work for you on the Spokin app! Pro tip: see the carousel feature under the guide that’s customized to your allergies, including chickpea, sunflower, and more!

To learn more about our product guide process, see our Letter From Our Founder Letter From Our Founder. This guide was published on 8/30/24.

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Top-Rated Allergy-Friendly Cookie Dough

Why is cookie dough so darn good?! We don’t know but we are obsessed and since it’s National Cookie Dough Day, we had to create a guide ofc! See the 29 most allergy-friendly cookie doughs including the #1 rated on the Spokin app, Sweet Loren’s and the newest dough coming to the market and soon to be Spokin Verified, Whoa Dough! This list was published on June 21, 2024

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Travel

Top 100 Allergy-Friendly Colleges 2025

Our annual Top Rated Allergy-Friendly College Guide is live! Congrats to all the schools that are creating a safe home away from home for food allergy and celiac students! See the 100 most allergy-friendly colleges, including a new school taking the #1 spot and 16 schools breaking into the Top 100 for the first time! See the full rankings below and the Spokin app for all our college reviews!

Nut-Free Copenhagen Travel Guide

From smørrebrød and street hot dogs to pastries, our Nut-Free Copenhagen Travel Guide features 54 spots serving up the best nut-free Danish eats! Pedal through our reviews to find fully nut-free kitchens and restaurants, grocery stores with allergy-friendly sections, a peanut-free bakery, nut-free glögg, and more—all shared by Spokin users who’ve been to Scandinavia’s Coolest Capital!

Jules’ Nut, Milk, and Wheat-Free New York City Favorites

Hi! I’m Jules, and I’m so excited to share my favorite New York City spots that have been safe for my allergies to gluten, dairy, and tree nuts! For classic NYC food, I love Modern Bread and Bagel to get the best bagel sandwich. One of my must-go-to restaurants is Keste, and I recommend ordering gluten-free Pizza! For sightseeing and activities, my favorites include walking the high line, walking down 5th avenue, and gallery hopping in Chelsea. Follow me on Spokin @jmurphy to see all of my allergy-friendly reviews with allergies and on Insta @julianamurphy!

Meet The Maker

Meet the Maker: Chaia

Chaia holds a special place in our hearts as the first restaurant to join the Spokin Verified Restaurant program. We’re excited to share the story behind this allergy mom co-owned and female-founded restaurant dedicated free of peanuts, tree nuts, gluten, and more. To celebrate joining the Spokin family, Chaia is giving away FREE tacos! Join the biggest Taco Tuesday ever by using code SPOKIN at any of their 3 locations in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. This code is good for up to 1 year—perfect for that 2023 D.C. trip! Can also be used for delivery. Limit one use per person.

Meet the Maker: Ghostfish Brewing Company

Requests for alcohol allergen details are bubbling up at Spokin and we are saying cheers to our FIRST Verified Alcohol Brand, Ghostfish Brewing Company! Ghostfish is one of the largest dedicated gluten-free breweries in the U.S. and their Seattle brewing facility also boasts the Ghostfish Taproom, a bucket list-worthy restaurant that’s 100% dedicated gluten-free and allergy-friendly. Ghostfish’s craft beer is sold in 18 states and 2 Canadian provinces. Sports fans can also find it at some of the leading baseball and football stadiums. Learn more from Co-Founder Brian Thiel and tune in for Brian’s Insta Live today 10/7 at 12pm CT.

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Meet the Maker: Better Bites Bakery

Better Bites Bakery chocolate covered cookie dough bites are one of the highest rated products on the Spokin app. Leah Lopez is the allergy mom and genius behind these top 9 free cookie dough bites, cake bites, cupcakes, and cakes that taste so good, they’re making classrooms and party guests jealous of the “safe” treat. Her refusal to have her son feel left out of celebrations drove her into the kitchen and ultimately landed her products on Whole Foods shelves nationwide. Leah and her team want everyone to have safe treats and are giving 500 winners FREE Better Bites! Tune in to our Insta Live with Leah at 12 PM CT/1 PM ET.

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Wisdom

Mother’s Day: Food Allergy Moms

Being a food allergy mom takes parenting to another level, and to show off all of the superhero moms in the Spokin Community, we created a Mother’s Day Guide! We asked moms the best advice they’ve ever received, their tips for newly diagnosed families, 3 things always in their grocery cart, and more! To see how” allergy kids” show off their moms, see our other Mother’s Day Guide!

Allergy Mom Superheroes

For Mother’s Day we gave “Allergy kids” an opportunity to show off their superhero moms! We asked the most “extra” thing their mom has done to keep them safe, how their mom made sure they were always included, how their mom taught them to advocate, and more! To see the best tips and advice from food allergy moms themselves, see our Mom Guide!

Allergen Component Testing: Alyssa’s Story

Alyssa Bauder scheduled what she thought was a routine appointment with an allergist but received news that changed her life. While she still had a life-threatening allergy to peanuts, she no longer was allergic to tree nuts, fish, shellfish, or chickpeas—news that seemed almost too good to be true. Learn how she tackled 13 food challenges and worked with her therapist to manage food allergy-related anxiety with a strategy that led to wins like her first Starbucks at 24 years old and a lot of fun along the way.

Alyssa is thankful for the freedom she’s gained and is glad to still be a part of the food allergy community, one that she’s passionate about and plans to continue advocating for through both her platform and career.

Holidays

Valentine’s Day: Dating with Food Allergies

Get ready to say “awww!” We got personal and asked some of our favorite couples about dating with food allergies and celiac. We’re crushing on what they spilled, including the best ways their partner supports them, their S.O.’s best advice on dating someone with food allergies, how they met (we love a good back story!), their favorite date night spot + more! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Allergy-Friendly Holiday Cookie Recipes

Get your ovens preheated because we baked up our annual Allergy-Friendly Holiday Cookie Recipe Guide. Each of the 65 cookies featured is free of at least 1 of the top 9 allergens and our sweet infographic makes it easy to find all the safe gingerbread, peppermint, sugar, thumbprint, chocolate, caramel, crinkle, shortbread, and Hanukkah cookies. See all the recipes on the Spokin App, where we’ve already filtered them for your allergens!

Editorial note: See our 2016, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Allergy-Friendly Holiday Cookie Guides for more recipes!

14 Allergy-Friendly German Restaurants

It’s Oktoberfest and if you can’t make it to Munich, celebrate at a local German restaurant! Our guide features the most allergy friendly German restaurant in 4 countries including the U.S, Switzerland, Austria and Germany (of course!). See where you can find vegan schnitzel, a 100% gluten-free restaurant, and more!

Resources

Mother’s Day: Food Allergy Moms

Being a food allergy mom takes parenting to another level, and to show off all of the superhero moms in the Spokin Community, we created a Mother’s Day Guide! We asked moms the best advice they’ve ever received, their tips for newly diagnosed families, 3 things always in their grocery cart, and more! To see how” allergy kids” show off their moms, see our other Mother’s Day Guide!