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Seed oil free restaurants in New York, NY

Short answer

51 places in New York, NY are reported to cook without seed oils: 37 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 14 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.

  • 4 Charles Prime Rib

    4 Charles St, 3004, New York, NY

    beef tallow

  • 886

    26 Saint Marks Pl, New York, NY

    lard

  • Awaze Ethiopian Cuisine

    2288 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY

    butteravocado oil

  • COTE Korean Steakhouse

    16 W 22nd St, New York, NY

    beef tallow

  • Hawksmoor NYC

    109 E 22nd St, New York, NY

    beef tallow

  • Hearth

    403 E 12th St, New York, NY

    beef tallowlardgheebutter

  • Locanut

    361 W 17th St, New York, NY

    gheebutter

  • Motek Flatiron

    928 Broadway, New York, NY

    olive oil

  • Pubkey

    85 Washington Place, New York, NY

    beef tallow

  • Pure Plate

    218 Lafayette St, New York, NY

    beef tallowgheebutterolive oilavocado oil

  • Springbone Kitchen

    90 West 3rd Street, New York, NY

    butterolive oil

  • Springbone Kitchen

    277 Bedford Avenue, New York, NY

    butterolive oil

  • Springbone Kitchen

    74 Pearl Street, New York, NY

    butterolive oil

  • Tony Dragon's Grille

    62 East 62nd Street, New York, NY

    olive oil

  • Wenwen

    1025 Manhattan Avenue, New York, NY

    lard

  • sweetgreen

    1500 3rd Ave, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 1114 6th Ave

    1114 6th Ave, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 1164 Broadway

    1164 Broadway, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 1321 1st Ave

    1321 1st Ave., New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 1384 Broadway

    1384 Broadway, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 1st Ave

    606 1st Ave., New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 2460 Broadway

    2460 Broadway, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - 2937 Broadway

    2937 Broadway, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Amsterdam Ave

    311 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Astor Pl

    10 Astor Pl, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Bleecker St

    226 Bleecker St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Bowery

    347 Bowery, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - E 18th St

    8 E 18th St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - E 44th St

    155 E 44th St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - E 55th St

    60 E 55th St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Gansevoort St

    32 Gansevoort St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Hudson Yards

    10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Kenmare St

    100 Kenmare St, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Park Ave

    2 Park Ave, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Pennsylvania Plaza

    7 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - University Pl

    101 University Pl, New York, NY

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Wall St

    67 Wall St, New York, NY

    olive 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 - 148 Madison Ave

    148 Madison Ave, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 188 2nd Ave

    188 2nd Ave, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 37th and 6th

    1008 6th Ave, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 56 W 14th St

    56 W 14th St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 7th Ave

    343 7th Ave, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 80 Maiden Lane

    80 Maiden Ln, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Canal Street

    275 Canal St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Columbia University

    2847 Broadway, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Diamond District

    36 W 48th St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Manhattan - 55th St

    43 W 55th St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Manhattan - Bleecker St

    296 Bleecker St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Midtown East

    690 3rd Ave, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Times Square

    253 W 42nd St, New York, NY

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - W 34th Street

    316 W 34th St., New York, 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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