Seed oil free restaurants in Columbus, OH
Short answer
27 places in Columbus, OH are reported to cook without seed oils: 19 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.
First Watch
1567 North High Street, Columbus, OH
olive oilFlip Side Easton
3945 Easton Sta, Columbus, OH
lardGood Cafe Easton
4400 Easton Cmns, Columbus, OH
lardolive oilcoconut oilTownHall
792 N High St, Columbus, OH
beef tallowgheebutterBuffalo Wild Wings - Georgesville Square Dr
1690 Georgesville Square Dr, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainBuffalo Wild Wings - Morse Crossing
3969 Morse Crossing, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainBuffalo Wild Wings - N High St
2151 N High St, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainBuffalo Wild Wings - W 5th Ave
968 W 5th Ave, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainOutback Steakhouse - Bethel Rd
2704 Bethel Rd, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainOutback Steakhouse - E Main St
6000 E Main St, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainOutback Steakhouse - Hilliard Rome Rd
1735 Hilliard Rome Rd, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainOutback Steakhouse - Polaris Pkwy
2020 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainSteak n Shake
1100 Evans Way Court, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainSteak n Shake
5960 East Main Street, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainSteak n Shake
1880 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainSteak n Shake
1700 Georgesville Square Drive, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainSteak n Shake
4047 Morse Crossing, Columbus, OH
beef tallowchainsweetgreen
700 N High St, Columbus, OH
olive oilchainTrue Food Kitchen
4052 Worth Ave, Columbus, OH
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
1004 W 5th Ave, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
1539 Hilliard Rome Rd, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
2134 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
220 Easton Town Ctr, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
3655 N High St, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
5004 N Hamilton Rd, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
6951 E Broad St, Columbus, OH
peanut oilchainFive Guys
763 Bethel Rd, Columbus, OH
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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