Find a restaurant that fits everyone's diets (without 30 browser tabs)

Saturday dinner for seven: your sister is vegan, your father-in-law is gluten-free and skeptical about it, and your six-year-old eats exactly four foods, two of which are shapes of pasta. You know how this search goes. Thirty browser tabs, menus that are PDFs from 2023, a review that says "great vegan options" written by someone whose idea of a vegan option is fries, and ninety minutes later you're at the same place as last time and your sister is eating a side salad.

The problem was never that no restaurant works. It's that cross-referencing four menus against three diets is miserable work, and you were doing it by hand.

What to send

Email [email protected] with the full lineup:

"Dinner Saturday for 7 near Wallingford in Seattle. One vegan adult, one gluten-free, one picky 6-year-old who'll eat plain noodles or quesadillas. Nothing too loud, ideally under $25 a plate, and we'd love a patio if it's nice out."

Don't sanitize it. "Picky 6-year-old who only eats plain noodles" is useful data; "kid-friendly" is not.

What comes back

Three or four real places, each with a Google Maps link and a link to the actual menu, and a sentence on why it survived the gauntlet:

Araya's Place (map, menu): Fully vegan Thai, with a dedicated gluten-free menu section. Your kid's plain-noodle situation is covered by the pad see ew, no sauce. Casual enough for seven, quiet before 7 PM.

Cantina Lena (map, menu): Marked vegan and GF options on the regular menu, quesadillas for the six-year-old, and a covered patio. Reservations open on their site.

Because Mabel checks real, current sources rather than guessing, you get places that exist, are open, and actually have the dishes claimed; and when something's uncertain (a menu that hasn't been updated, a patio that might be first-come), she says so instead of papering over it.

If one of them looks right, reply "make a calendar invite for Araya's at 6:30 Saturday" and you'll get a .ics back with the address in it, ready for the family thread.

Pro tip

Severity matters, so mention it. "Gluten-free by choice" and "celiac, cross-contamination is a real problem" lead to different lists; the second one filters for places that take it seriously, like dedicated fryers and marked protocols. One extra clause in your email is the difference between a nice dinner and a bad Sunday for your father-in-law, who, for the record, was right to be careful.