Summer Holidays- travel, restraunts and the allergic community

Allerdine is a great resource for families with food allergies while traveling on your summer vacation.

AllerDine.com was created in November of 2009, by parents of severe food allergic children who felt the need to find a way to dine out safely. AllerDine.com is a user based website that is designed to get allergic families out of the kitchen and dining out with the right information. Restaurant listings are searchable by allergen user profile. To be listed each restaurant is approached with the need to answer very specific questions on how they handle food allergies. Only restaurants specifically contacted by the food allergic staff of AllerDine.com, or first-hand user experiences are in the database along with reviews of their experiences. With over 700 restaurants in Chicago, Detroit, Orlando, Toronto, Denver, New York, Houston, Boston, Atlanta and many more cities to be added soon, AllerDine.com is starting to make a difference.

Each restaurant is asked very specific food allergy relevant information. Then the staff at AllerDine.com compiles all this information to provide users with the ability to make informed decisions on where they can dine (or at least give each family a qualified list they can investigate further). AllerDine.com is FREE for the food allergic community.

AllerDine.com can also be found on:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/AllerDine

Facebook: http://bit.ly/AllerDineFan

Blog: http://www.allergydining.com

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