SafeDoes carbonara contain lactose?
It depends. Roman carbonara is egg, guanciale, pecorino and pepper: pecorino is an aged cheese, and in long-aged cheeses ageing consumes almost all the lactose. The real issue is elsewhere: outside Rome a great many kitchens add cream to bind the sauce, and cream has all its lactose.
Eating out
"Is there cream in the carbonara?" is a sensible question, and one the kitchen can answer straight away.
Recipes change from one producer to the next and from one kitchen to the next: this is how something is usually made, not what is in the plate in front of you. The only answer that holds for your plate is the ingredient list on the packet, or the person who cooked it.
And how did it go at the restaurant?
Knowing what is in a dish is half the answer. The other half is what actually happened to the people who ate it in a specific place — and that is what SafeBelly collects: no stars, just how it went afterwards.
Open the map and see who has been there