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Seed oil free restaurants in Houston, TX

Short answer

51 places in Houston, TX are reported to cook without seed oils: 42 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 8 fry in peanut oil, 1 report being seed-oil free without naming a fat. 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.

Daily Gather
800 Sorella Ct, Houston, TX
butterolive oil
Della Coffee
1000 W Gray St, Houston, TX
beef tallowbutterolive oilavocado oil
Dish Society
12525 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX
butterolive oil
Dish Society
1050 Yale St, Houston, TX
butterolive oil
Dish Society
4191 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX
butterolive oil
Haywire
947 Gessner Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallow
HS Green Fresh Food Kitchen
5092 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX
beef tallowolive oil
Kriti Kitchen
4010 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
gheebutterolive oil
Leaf & Grain - Memorial
9655 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX
olive oil
Leaf & Grain - Tuscany Square
5779 San Felipe St, Houston, TX
olive oil
Leaf & Grain - Weslayan Plaza
5525 Weslayan St, Houston, TX
olive oil
Ruggles Black
2245 W Alabama St, Houston, TX
butterolive oil
Vibrant
7575 N Picnic Ln, Houston, TX
olive oil
Buffalo Wild Wings
3651 Weslayan St, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Airport Blvd
7800 Airport Blvd, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - East Sam Houston Pkwy N
5815 East Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Hwy 6 N
5805 Hwy 6 N, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Katy Fwy
9435 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - North Fwy
15800 North Fwy, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Tomball Pkwy
17195 Tomball Pkwy, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Washington Ave
3939 Washington Ave, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Buffalo Wild Wings - Westheimer Rd
11803 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Outback Steakhouse - Hwy 6 N
7070 Hwy 6 N, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Outback Steakhouse - Westheimer Rd
10001 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
Pappasito's Cantina
1600 Lamar St, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
Federal Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
2515 S Loop W, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
2536 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
10409 Interstate 10 Frontage Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
6445 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
13070 US-290, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
7050 Farm to Market 1960 Rd W, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
15280 I-45 N. at Airtex, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Pappasito's Cantina
3950 S Terminal Rd Space 4, Houston, TX
beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
Steak n Shake
2800 N Terminal Rd, Houston, TX
beef tallowchain
sweetgreen - Main + Walker
820 Main Street, Houston, TX
olive oilchain
sweetgreen - Montrose
1303 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX
olive oilchain
sweetgreen - Rice Village
2551 Amherst Street, Houston, TX
olive oilchain
sweetgreen - The Heights
600 North Shepherd Drive, Houston, TX
olive oilchain
sweetgreen - Uptown Park
1141 Uptown Park Boulevard, Houston, TX
olive oilchain
Taco Casa
8808 Barker Cypress Rd, Houston, TX
lardcoconut oilchain
True Food Kitchen
1700 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX
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
1150 N Fry Rd, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
11700 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
14303 East Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
2902 N Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
3939 Washington Ave #600, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
6927 FM 1960, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
8505 S Main St #380, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain
Five Guys
9762 Katy Fwy #100, Houston, TX
peanut oilchain

Reported seed-oil free, fat not named

Listed as avoiding seed oils without the source naming what they cook with instead. Worth a call rather than an assumption.

Leven Bakery and Cafe
4191 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX
reported seed-oil free

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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