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Seed oil free restaurants in Jacksonville, FL

Short answer

19 places in Jacksonville, FL are reported to cook without seed oils: 11 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 8 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.

  • Mesa

    4260 Herschel St, Jacksonville, FL

    gheecoconut oil
  • 4 Rivers Smokehouse

    9220 Baymeadows Rd, Jacksonville, FL

    butterchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    4594 Tropea Wy, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    13230 City Station Dr, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    10300 Southside Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse - Atlantic Blvd

    13245 Atlantic Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse - San Jose Blvd

    9773 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    9560 Regency Square Boulevard N, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    10661 San Jose Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    9431 Phillips Highway, Jacksonville, FL

    beef tallowchain
  • True Food Kitchen

    5205 Big Island Drive, Jacksonville, FL

    olive oilavocado 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 - Crown Plaza

    10061 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Oakleaf

    9630 Applecross Rd #106, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Pablo Creek East

    3267 Hodges Blvd #6, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - River City

    13249 City Square Dr, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Roosevelt Blvd

    4495 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Southside

    9039 Southside Blvd, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - St Augustine Road

    13760 St Augustine Rd, Jacksonville, FL

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - St John's Center North

    4413 Town Center Pkwy #401, Jacksonville, FL

    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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