The Green Dragon
The Green Dragon, Salisbury, SP5 3AW
At a glance
A smarter village pub-restaurant on Old Road in Alderbury, about three and a half miles south-east of Salisbury — a more refined gastro menu (carpaccio, cured salmon, dauphinoise, crème brûlée), with a garden and reservations.
Gluten-free options
Nothing on the pub's new June 2026 menus is labelled gluten-free, but the pub itself has told us gluten-free options are available — Tia at the Green Dragon confirmed it by email and sent the new menus so this entry could be written from them. Reading those menus, the likeliest candidates to adapt are the salads (crispy duck, smoked chicken chop, hot-smoked salmon — croutons and dressings aside), the ploughman's with the bread swapped or skipped, and simpler mains such as the burger without its bun. The kitchen decides dish by dish, so treat the menu as a starting point for a conversation rather than a list of safe choices. A gluten-free diner who ate here in late July 2026 had the burger and said it was fine, which puts a real meal behind that reading — but also found the gluten-free choice limited, so come expecting an option or two rather than a range.
Before you order
The menus carry an advise-your-server line but no gluten-free symbols and no published allergen guide, so every order runs through a staff conversation — and by one first-hand account a good one: a gluten-free diner who ate here in late July 2026 was talked through the menu by the manager. That same diner was told the kitchen keeps no separate fryer, so the chips and fries are out; the tempura battered fish and chips was never a gluten-free dish here either. Come expecting to eat without chips. The Sunday roasts are not marked gluten-free: they come with Yorkshire pudding and gravy as standard, so whether a roast can be plated gluten-free is a kitchen question, not a menu promise. Booking ahead and saying coeliac gives the kitchen its best chance to look after you.
Worth asking?
Which dishes can the kitchen do gluten-free today — and is there an allergen guide I can see? Can the burger come on a gluten-free bun, or is it served without one? Can a Sunday roast come without the Yorkshire pudding and with gluten-free gravy?
What this means for coeliacs
The pub has confirmed directly, by email, that gluten-free options are available, and supplied its current June 2026 menus — but the menus carry no gluten-free marking and no published cross-contact detail, so which dishes are adaptable and how they are kept separate rests on the conversation with the kitchen. A gluten-free diner reported in August 2026 that the kitchen keeps no separate fryer, which rules out the fried side of the menu without telling us anything about how the rest is handled.
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This information is researched but not guaranteed — menus and kitchen practices change. Always tell staff you are coeliac.