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Seed oil free restaurants in Barcelona, Catalunya

Short answer

18 places in Barcelona, Catalunya are reported to cook without seed oils: 10 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.

  • Honest Greens Arc de Triomf

    3 Av. de Vilanova, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Barceloneta

    15 Passeig del Mare Nostrum, Barcelona, Cataluña

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Born

    11 Pla de Palau, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Gran de Gràcia

    30 Carrer Gran de Gràcia, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Les Rambles

    109 La Rambla, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Pedralbes Centre

    236 Carrer de Joan Güell, Barcelona, Cataluña

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Plaça Catalunya

    3 Rambla de Catalunya, Barcelona, Cataluña

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Tuset

    4 Carrer de Tuset, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Honest Greens Westfield Glòries

    208 Av. Diagonal, Barcelona, Catalunya

    olive oil

  • Tango Grill Steak House

    31 Passeig de Garcia Fària, Barcelona, Catalonia

    butter

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

    Via Laietana, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Av. Diagonal, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Av. Diagonal, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Av. Diagonal, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Centro Comercial La Maquinista, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Pg. de Gràcia, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Centre Comercial El Triangle, Barcelona, Catalonia

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Carrer de Provença, Barcelona, Catalonia

    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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