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Seed oil free restaurants in Toronto, Ontario

Short answer

34 places in Toronto, Ontario are reported to cook without seed oils: 27 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 7 fry in peanut oil. Each entry reflects what the venue has been reported to use rather than an inspection, so call ahead before you rely on it.

Cooking with animal fats and fruit oils

Beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil — the fats a kitchen chooses deliberately, and the clearest signal available from outside it.

  • Brgr Barn

    1075 Martin Grove Rd, Toronto, Ontario

    beef tallow

  • Northern Smokes

    371 Old Kingston Rd, Toronto, Ontario

    beef tallowbutter

  • OEB Breakfast Co. - 20 Toronto St

    20 Toronto St, Toronto, Ontario

    beef tallow

  • OEB Breakfast Co. - E Liberty St

    125 E Liberty St, Toronto, Ontario

    beef tallow

  • Sea Witch Fish and Chips

    636 Saint Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario

    beef tallow

  • The Peachy

    618 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario

    butter

  • The Pie Commission

    919 Oxford St, Toronto, Ontario

    butter

  • Pizzaiolo

    2277 Sheppard Ave W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    3339 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    4335 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    3369 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    1548 Avenue Rd, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    37 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    2640 St Clair Ave E, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    2253 Queen St E, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    13 St Clair Ave W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    1160 St Clair Ave W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    707 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    110 Danforth Ave, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    416 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    383 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    1172 Queen St W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    770 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    1 Toronto St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    104 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    615 King St W, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

  • Pizzaiolo

    3 Rees St, Toronto, Ontario

    olive oilcoconut oilchain

Frying in peanut oil

Peanut is a legume rather than a seed, so peanut-oil fryers appear on most seed-oil-free lists. The oil is still roughly a third linoleic acid, and opinion in the seed-oil-free community is genuinely split on it — which is why these venues are counted separately here rather than folded into the number above.

  • Five Guys - Cotu

    329 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - First Canadian Place

    100 King St W Space 93, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Leaside Village

    85 Laird Dr, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - North Queen

    148 N Queen St, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Scarborough

    800 Warden Ave. Building C, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Stockyards

    70 Weston Rd Unit 101, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Yong and Sheppard

    4841 Yonge St #118, Toronto, Ontario

    peanut oilchain

What to ask before you order

A kitchen can change supplier without changing its menu, and a venue that roasts in tallow may still fry in something else. Four questions settle it in about ten seconds:

  • What do you fry in? — the fryer is where the volume is, and it is often a different fat from the grill.
  • Is the dressing or sauce made in house? — bought-in dressings and mayo are almost always canola or soybean.
  • Are the buns or tortillas baked here? — bakery goods are a common hidden source.
  • Do you cook the vegetables in butter or oil? — the answer is frequently a blend.

How to read this list. Each entry reflects what the venue has been reported to cook with. It is not a certification, nobody has inspected these kitchens on your behalf, and menus and suppliers change — treat it as a shortlist to call, not a guarantee. The four questions above are worth asking even when a place is listed here.

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