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Seed oil free restaurants in Indiana

Short answer

120 places in Indiana are reported to cook without seed oils: 87 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 33 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.

Cities in Indiana

Elsewhere in Indiana

Towns with fewer than 3 venues do not get their own page, so their entries are listed here.

  • Creation Cookies Café

    94 N Jefferson St, Danville, IN

    butteravocado oil
  • Deaglan Town Square Grill

    103 W Tyson St, Versailles, IN

    beef tallowgheebutterolive oilavocado oil
  • Griggsby's Station

    101 West Main Street, Greenfield, IN

    lard
  • Grindstone on the Monon

    17470 Wheeler Rd, Westfield, IN

    beef tallowbutter
  • Karv Meats

    115 E Chestnut St, Corydon, IN

    beef tallow
  • Koffie Haus

    250 Berkshire Dr, Shipshewana, IN

    butteravocado oil
  • Mimi's Oven Creations

    1121 Main Street, Brookville, IN

    butter
  • Oink Inc Smokehouse & Catering

    420 E 6th St, Huntingburg, IN

    beef tallowolive oil
  • Oink Inc Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen

    408 Main St, Jasper, IN

    beef tallowolive oil
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    2330 N Morton St, Franklin, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    1129 North Baldwin Avenue, Marion, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    2942 Carlson Dr, Hammond, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    21 Maplehurst Drive, Brownsburg, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    2775 Herman Darlage Drive, Columbus, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    3250 Cassapolis Street, Elkhart, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    2088 N Morton Street, Franklin, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    2121 North State Street, Greenfield, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    247 W Smith Valley Road, Greenwood, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    103 N State Road 135, Greenwood, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    2624 S Western Avenue, Marion, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    16902 Clover Road, Noblesville, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    6208 Cambridge Way, Plainfield, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    6231 U.S Highway 6, Portage, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    312 N U.S. 41, Schererville, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    1251 Strongbow Center Drive, Valparaiso, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    10625 U.S. Highway 36, Avon, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    1015 James Avenue, Bedford, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    1640 U.S. Highway 231, Crawfordsville, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    4025 Elkhart Road, Goshen, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    861 W Eads Parkway, Lawrenceburg, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    1236 W State Road 32, Lebanon, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    520 N Town Center Road, Mooresville, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    23 Executive Drive, New Castle, IN

    beef tallowchain
  • Steak n Shake

    1640 E Tipton Street, Seymour, IN

    beef tallowchain

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

    335 County Rd 6 W a, Elkhart, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    2663 E Main St, Plainfield, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    6036 US-6, Portage, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    10708 Broadway, Crown Point, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    5226 Franklin St, Michigan City, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    8231 Calumet Ave, Munster, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    2221 State St, New Albany, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    6685 Whitestown Pkwy, Zionsville, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - 1500 Veterans Parkway

    1500 Veterans Pkwy, Jeffersonville, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Brownsburg Village

    124 E Northfield Dr h, Brownsburg, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Crossroads Shopping Center

    1575 US-41, Schererville, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Hamilton Town Center

    13971 Town Center Blvd #100, Noblesville, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - N National Rd

    1675 N National Rd a, Columbus, IN

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Shoppes at Valparaiso

    2505 Laporte Ave #171, Valparaiso, IN

    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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