Easter Hours

Have tons of stuff in the store for Easter. Will be doing up some cupcakes and cookies in Easter fashion. Hot cross buns, like last year. Pull apart bread that can be used as rolls. Easter week open Tues - Thursday 10-6pm. Closed Good Friday. Open Saturday 10am-6pm. Closed Easter Sunday and Monday. As always have over 70 products in the store including bread. Oh my our bread is like you've never tasted before.   We will soon start using our new web site and start using this site as a blog.  www.thejoyofglutenfree.com  613-907-1252 store phone number.  thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com is the email we use.  Please note we are cash only.  There is a bank in the same mall and the grocery store does do cash back. Many of our products (including all our breads) are dairy free.  We are pretty sure we have the largest selection in North America of home-baked on-site gluten free products.  Come see for yourself.  Located in beautiful Ottawa Canada we are at 250 Greenbank Rd. in the Mall near Hunt Club Road.  We are directly beside the M&M Meat shop on the south side.  Our store is The JOY of Gluten Free.  We opened Feb. 18th, 2012 after 7 years of recipe development.  We are very active on Facebook.  Note:  We cater to other food sensitivities as well like eggs and dairy free (lots but not all in the store meets this criteria).  We are peanut free.  We do not use soy flour or oil.  We use almonds in a couple of products that are clearly marked but no other tree nuts.  Please note we are a small business: owner operated and owned....at some times during the day we have to pan bread which must be done at that moment or we lose the rise on it.  This may mean a wait at the counter.  All our cupcakes are iced fresh.  Pre-order on cakes is recommended, although we can ice one while you wait.  The wait time depends on our line-ups.  Thank you for your support.  Susan Phipps - owner

Holiday Hours:   We are closed Monday's so we have extended our Sunday hours this week and next until 6pm for your convenience.  Any questions send us an email:  thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com   Closed Mon-Wed. Christmas and New Year's week.   Open:  Thurs-Sat 10-6pm and Sunday 11am-6pm   Merry Christmas everyone and thank you from our hearts to yours for such a wonderful first year.  :)

Holiday Goodies - pre-order or pickup and freeze to make sure you aren't without this season

The holidays are upons us and we're busier than ever at the bakery.  Pre-order your holiday goodies or pickup now and freeze for use later.   Gift certificates are available.  Our elegant light fruitcake is on the shelves and gets better with age.   $15/pound - $17/for the version with VSOP brandy (it's 60% fruit and almonds).   Tourtiere pies are $19.00    All squares are $3.50 each.  stuffing $7.00/half pound. $15/pound.  We are making apple/cranberry streudel pies, mincemeat is coming, sugar pie is coming.  We always have shortbread - the butter version will come for the holidays.  Order a box of squares for Christmas dinner - marzipan, almond butter, nanaimo, apple crisp, carrot cake, chewy chunks, white chocolate cranberry blondies, date squares, guilt free brownies, caramel slice.  We also have our Australian Meat Pie and a Chicken Vegetable Curry pie.  Cookies are always a great choice as well.  To pre-order you must pre-pay....this is available in-store or on-line via email transfer through your web-banking.  613-907-1252   thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com  Please come into the store for the best service.  Happy Holidays to you and your family from Susan, Bianca, Isabella and the staff at The Joy of Gluten Free.  We will be closed Monday's until the new year.   We are closed Dec 24/5/6 and Dec 31/Jan1/2 to share time with our families.  Thank you for helping us push the limits to what Gluten-free can really be and how wonderful things can taste!  We make over 75 products fresh from scratch in our store at this time.

Feb. 18th, 2012 I opened Ottawa's first 100% dedicated stand-alone Gluten-Free bakery and gourmet food shop. After 7 years of recipe development and 5 years as a teaching chef; I taught hundreds of cooking classes to hundreds of people. The bakery currently produces about 60 of the 300+ recipes I developed during that time. The bakery is dedicated to fine quality production of bread, cakes, cookies, desserts, lunches and dinner menus and offers a selection of tast-approved food items. We use 22 different flours in our baking and strive to have the highest quality and best nutrionally sound g/f products available on the market today. Our customers come from across Canada and the US to visit our Ottawa location. We welcome commercial inquiries from companies who wish to partner with us. Our plan is to make our products available everywhere. Cooking classes are not offered at this time.

Menu - in part

The formatting is not working on the blog - we realize this is hard to read, but it's the only way it would go up. All our yeasted breads are dairy free. Many of these items are dairy and lactose and egg free - please come into the store for more information. We cater to a number of different issues and can custom make many things that are not on the menu. Friend us on facebook for customer testimonials, photos and more information. Thanks for visiting us. Brown rice bread (like a nice white sandwich bread - soft and delicious) - 500g loaf $8.00 Sorghum almond bread (people say it tastes like the brown bread at Upper Canada Village) 500g loaf $8.00 Mock rye bread (teff flour/caraway seeds - no rye in it as rye is not gluten-free) 500g loaf $10. Chick pea bread (a big loaf) - the most like the texture of a wheat bread - has 3 eggs in it and the colour of a challah bread $12.00 Sorghum almond and chick pea flour bread are the two most popular - but we sell a lot of bread each day in each one. Focaccia bread (fresh herb, garlic and olive oil) - this is a flat bread made from our brown rice bread - very popular $8.50 Ham and Swiss Pannini on the foccacia bread - $7.00 Buns for hamburgers: yeasted buns (3 in each pack) - our brown rice bread $6.00 or foccacia with herbs and garlic infused in the bread ($7.50) non-yeast buns (no sugar added) - corn meal buns ($6.50 pck of 3) sweet potato biscuits (fresh sweet potato and butter in these) - pack of 4 for $8.00 waffles: pack of 4 $10.00 pizza crusts: 12" is $7.50 personal size is 9.5" $4.50 Squares are all $3.50 each: brownies made with real chocolate, we use flours high in calcium, protien and iron for this product marzipan squares: shortbread crust, almond cake and icing, raspberry jam date squares apple crisp squares nanaimo squares chewy chunks (sweetened condensed milk with coconut, roasted almonds, raisins, chocolate chips - no flour) Cupcakes are all $3.00 each chocolate red velvet (no food colouring used - this product is made with beets and fresh lemon juice) salted caramel confetti (this is a white cake with confetti sprinkles and white icing) chocolate cloud (chocolate cake with meringue icing) Cookies are all $1.50 each carrot with orange icing fruit and seed chocolate chip double chocolate shortbread oatmeal raisin Muffins are $2.50 each donut muffins (baked not fried - only 1/3 cup sugar in a batch of 12) - cinnamon and sugar topping butter tart muffins Pies: fruit pies are $15. each Currently our meat pies are $18.00 - they contain beef chunks, mushrooms, carrot and pototatoes, carmelized onions Salads (these are between $4-5 each): hummus tabouli curried corn jamaican sweet potato Soups: cream of brocolli 5.25 lentil 4.25 cakes: most 8" flavours are $35.00 most 9" flavours are $45.00 we custom bake cakes so they are fresh as we do not use preservatives in our cakes and many people have other allergies than just gluten who come into the store. We can make up a cake while you wait in chocolate or vanilla and have introduced 8" coconut cakes recently. We can make any flavour if it is made in advance. We also sell dried pastas, and a few other grocery items (this section will expand soon).

We are making awesome thin crust pizza crusts for ZaZaZa Pizza in Ottawa! The former owner of the Works restaurants has opened this new specialty pizza restaurant and has it's second location opening in the Glebe on June 6th (915 Bank St. near Holmwood). Find them at www.zazazapizza.com or on facebook. It's our amazing chickpea flour crust. The size of the crust is a 12 inch which is a standard medium size pizza. Love the toppings they have. The new Glebe store is truly elegant and fun.