These cafés, pubs, restaurants and chip shops in and around Saddleworth offer gluten-free food, all within about 25 minutes’ drive of the cottage. Each one is backed by a current menu, the venue’s own website or recent reviews from coeliac diners, and each has a food hygiene rating of 3 or above. Menus, owners and kitchen practices change, so please ring ahead, especially if you need food prepared away from gluten.
If you have coeliac disease: a gluten-free dish is not the same as a coeliac-safe kitchen. Always tell staff, and ask whether fried food shares oil with battered items and how toasters, boards and pizza ovens are kept separate. Where a place below says it has a dedicated fryer, that is what the venue itself states.
In Uppermill (walkable)
- The Waggon, High Street: a separate gluten-free menu, including gluten-free Sunday lunch. The menu notes that the kitchen itself is not gluten-free.
- Muse, 23 High Street: small plates and cocktails. Coeliac diners report gluten-free dishes marked on the menu and knowledgeable staff.
- Sorella, 38 High Street: an Italian restaurant where coeliac diners report that the pizza and pasta can be made gluten-free, with a separate pot and water for gluten-free pasta. Tell them when you book.
- Caffè Grande Abaco, High Street: allergens are marked on the menu, and toasties and sandwiches can be made on gluten-free bread. Dogs welcome.
- Saints, St Mary’s Gate: a café with gluten-free sandwiches and toasties, which staff say are prepared separately.
Elsewhere in Saddleworth
- The Kingfisher, Greenfield: a family pub whose menu marks dishes made with no gluten-containing ingredients. Food is prepared in a shared kitchen. Dogs welcome.
- The Navigation Inn, Dobcross: gluten-free dishes are marked on the menu, including fish and chips and a cheese and onion pie, and there are gluten-free beers. Coeliac diners have reviewed it well this year.
- The Loading Bay, Sam Road, Diggle: a brunch café. Dishes that can be made gluten-free are marked on the menu, and gluten-free bread is available.
- The Old Bell Inn, Delph: dishes are marked gluten-free on the brasserie menu, and some others can be made gluten-free on request.
- The White Hart, Lydgate: dishes suitable for coeliacs are marked on the menu, and gluten-free bread and gluten-free battered haddock are available.
- The Huntsman Inn, on the moors road from Greenfield towards Holmfirth: the menu marks dishes made with no gluten-containing ingredients and those that can be made without gluten. Dogs welcome.
A short drive away
Oldham
- The Roebuck Inn, Strinesdale: a gluten-free menu. Fried items share a fryer, and the menu marks them.
- Molino Lounge, Old Town Hall, Oldham: a café-bar with a full gluten-free menu.
- Nando’s, Old Town Hall and Elk Mill: Coeliac Sanctuary reports that Nando’s chips are cooked separately. Check the allergen information on Nando’s online menu and tell staff when you order.
Mossley, Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne
- The Chippy, Arundel Street, Mossley: gluten-free battered fish and gluten-free sausages, cooked in a separate fryer.
- SK15 Bar & Bistro, Market Street, Stalybridge: staff ask about allergies, and a diner this year was handed an allergen chart for the menu.
- Nando’s, Ashton Moss leisure park: as above.
Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake
- The Waterside, Inghams Lane, by Hollingworth Lake: a bar and restaurant that says it has an extensive range of gluten-free dishes. Ask staff what’s available.
Marsden
- The Olive Branch Inn, Manchester Road: an inn where a gluten-free diner this year praised the staff’s knowledge of gluten-free options.
Huddersfield and Holmfirth
- Apadana, Viaduct Street, Huddersfield: a Persian restaurant with a large gluten-free menu and a separate fryer.
- The Café at Totties, near Holmfirth: gluten-free options across the menu, and the café says it always has gluten-free cake. Dogs allowed in the conservatory and on the terrace.
- The Carding Shed, Washpit Mills, Holmfirth: a daytime café in an old mill, alongside a garage. Recent reviewers say it catered well for gluten-free diners and had gluten-free cakes.
Glossop
- Pico Lounge, Howard Town Shopping Park: a café-bar with a full gluten-free menu.
- La Corrente, Howard Town Shopping Park: an Italian restaurant with its own gluten-free menu, including pizza and pasta.
Gluten-free bakes and shops for self-catering
The cottage has a full kitchen, so cooking for yourself is often the easiest and safest option.
- Simply GF Cakes & Bakes, Norden, Rochdale: a small home bakery making only gluten-free cakes, pies, quiches and bakes to order, for local delivery or collection. Message them well before your stay.
- Tesco Greenfield, Chew Valley Road: the nearest large supermarket, with a Free From range.
- Co-op, Uppermill High Street: Co-op has its own gluten-free range, though it’s a small store, so don’t count on every line being in stock.
If you know a good gluten-free bakery or deli closer to Uppermill, please tell us so we can add it. For everywhere else to eat in the village, see eating and drinking in Uppermill.
Last checked September 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email admin@potsandpanscottage.com.
This guide is for information only. We are not connected to any of these businesses and can’t guarantee how food is prepared. Please confirm your needs with each venue before ordering.