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Seed oil free restaurants in San Antonio, TX

Short answer

24 places in San Antonio, TX are reported to cook without seed oils: 18 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.

  • Broken Oak Bar & Grill

    6511 W Loop 1604 N, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallow
  • Haywire

    15900 La Cantera Pkwy, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallow
  • Lucy Cooper's Texas Ice House

    16080 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowbutter
  • Pharm Table

    611 S Presa St, San Antonio, TX

    olive oilavocado oilcoconut oil
  • Toasted Cafe

    1777 NE Interstate 410 Loop, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallow
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - De Zavala Rd

    5860 De Zavala Rd, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Pat Booker Rd

    7903 Pat Booker Rd, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - S Zarzamora St

    7823 S Zarzamora St, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - SE Military Dr

    3158 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - SW Loop 410

    115 SW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - U.S. Hwy 281 N

    18410 U.S. Hwy 281 N, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - W Loop 1604 N

    5411 W Loop 1604 N, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse - I-10

    12511 Interstate 10, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse - Ingram Rd

    6569 Ingram Rd, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse - SE Military Dr

    2814 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • Pappasito's Cantina

    10501 I-10, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain
  • Steak n Shake

    5619 W Loop 1604 N, San Antonio, TX

    beef tallowchain
  • sweetgreen

    340 East Basse Road, San Antonio, TX

    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

    12016 Alamo Ranch Pkwy #100, San Antonio, TX

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    1321 TX-1604 Loop, San Antonio, TX

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    20811 U.S. Hwy 281 S Suite 426, San Antonio, TX

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    260 E Basse Rd #107, San Antonio, TX

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    5215 De Zavala Rd, San Antonio, TX

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys

    8603 TX-151 Unit 208, San Antonio, TX

    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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