About us
Our story
I'm Yuko, the person behind Tabeyo!. I'm an editor living in Kichijoji, Tokyo, with my husband.
I love eating, and wandering streets I don't know yet. From around the summer of 2021, I started having allergic reactions after eating wheat, once badly enough to be taken to hospital by ambulance. These days I live carefully around wheat. Bread, pasta and ramen became things I hold back on.
Meals at home were manageable. The hardest part was eating out and travelling: working out what I could actually eat. I read each restaurant's own information, went to see for myself, and kept notes on what I ate. Along the way I found that Kichijoji, and many other towns, have places serving rice-flour sweets and gluten-free set meals.
I started this site to share those notes with people who avoid wheat too, and with everyone travelling in Japan. "Tabeyo!" means "let's eat!". I wanted it to be an invitation you can make with an easy mind.
Here you'll find what each restaurant says, what we've checked, and what's still unknown. Everyone's body is different, so please check with the restaurant before you go and when you order.
@tabeyo.glutenfreeNew places and what we ate, on Instagram
What we hold to
- What a restaurant says is kept apart from what's still unknown.
- When we've eaten somewhere, we say when (17 places so far).
- No restaurant pays to be listed. No rankings, no recommendations.