Lah Koh
Lah Koh, Salisbury
At a glance
Lah Koh is an independent Korean and East Asian restaurant on Fisherton Street in central Salisbury — sushi rolls, Korean street food, bibimbap ricebowls and sharing platters to wrap at the table. It is open again after a long closure following a fire, trading Wednesday to Sunday on a shortened menu while the kitchen builds back up, with old favourites coming back week by week.
Gluten-free options
The standout thing here for a coeliac is that Lah Koh publishes a full allergen list, dish by dish, with a gluten column — so you can work out where you stand before you arrive rather than at the table. The bibimbap ricebowls are the pick of it: the menu itself marks the sweet teriyaki sauce as gluten-free, and the allergen list agrees, putting the gluten in the chilli gochujang alternative rather than in the bowl. Crisscut fries, sticky sushi rice, kimchi and the fried aubergine with Thai basil are all listed without gluten, as are the avocado asparagus maki and the tiger maki. A coeliac who ate here regularly before the fire recommends the place warmly.
Before you order
Two things are worth knowing before you order. The allergen list was put together in November 2025, before the reopening, and the menu being cooked now is a shortened one — so some dishes on the list may not be available, and newly reinstated ones can run ahead of it. Worth asking whether the list matches what the kitchen is cooking that day. The other thing will strike you as soon as you read the menu: no whole dish is badged gluten free (the only gluten-free marker is on the sweet teriyaki sauce), and that is a deliberate choice rather than a gap. The managing director told us his understanding is that a kitchen handling gluten cannot officially label a dish as gluten free, so Lah Koh does not use those words on its dishes — while telling us in the same breath that the fried items go in separate baskets and that they would never cook a dish made without gluten-containing ingredients on equipment contaminated with gluten. Separate baskets can still share the same oil, and the managing director did not say whether they do, so ask about the oil. Read the allergen list rather than hunting for a label, and say you are coeliac when you order.
Worth asking?
Is the November 2025 allergen list still the right one for the dishes you are cooking on the shortened menu? For a gluten-free bibimbap, is the sweet teriyaki sauce the one to choose, and is anything else swapped out with it? Do the fried items without gluten have their own oil, or only their own basket?
What this means for coeliacs
Lah Koh publishes a per-dish allergen list with a gluten column. The managing director told us the fried items go in separate baskets and that the kitchen would never cook a dish made without gluten-containing ingredients on equipment contaminated with gluten. Separate baskets do not settle whether the oil is shared, and preparation surfaces and utensils are not described, so treat it as a shared kitchen and ask.
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Menus and kitchen practices change. Tell staff you are coeliac before you order.