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Seed oil free restaurants in Brooklyn, NY

Short answer

10 places in Brooklyn, NY are reported to cook without seed oils: 4 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 6 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.

  • King Souvlaki

    8402 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY

    olive oil

  • SAVO

    406 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY

    olive oilavocado oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    139 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    1475 86th St, Brooklyn, NY

    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

    1628 Shore Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - East New York

    911 Erskine St, Brooklyn, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Metrotech Center

    2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Nostrand Ave

    2133 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Park Slope

    284 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Ralph Ave

    2159 Ralph Ave, Brooklyn, NY

    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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