Pre-Orders for Christmas & our Holiday Hours!

We are starting our pre-orders for Christmas. The Christmas List is available and can be viewed at this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/189024427/The-JOY-Christmas-List-for-Pre-Orders

We will be taking orders for those items as well as our 80 other items we have in stock every day ( Our entire menu is on Facebook www.facebook.com/thejoyofglutenfree and on our website www.thejoyofglutenfree.com. We are encouraging pre-orders to avoid having long line ups out the door and to be sure you get what you want and need for Christmas. Please come into the store or send an email transfer to us by Monday December 16th at 4pm. Orders will be available for pick up between 3pm and 6pm Tuesday to Saturday and between 2pm and 4pm Sunday and Monday. You can email us with the items you would like to order at thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com.

Also: Our Holiday Store Hours:

Sunday and Monday: 11am to 4pm
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am to 6pm


Happy Holidays Everyone!

Our menu is now up on facebook and our website

Exciting news! You can check out our website at www.thejoyofglutenfree.com where you can find our full menu. We also have our full menu with photos up on our Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/thejoyofglutenfree  We have what we believe is the largest selection of in-store home-baked fresh products in North America.  Breads, squares, cakes, cookies, pies, pizza, craft sandwiches, etc.  See our full profile at: http://greenbankhuntclub.com/extendedprofile-26.cfm  and our favourite tv spot:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIZRNGYbYA

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.