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Seed oil free restaurants in London, England

Short answer

60 places in London, England are reported to cook without seed oils: 22 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 38 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.

  • Bun & Sum

    4 Priory Street, London, England

    beef tallow

  • Duck Frites

    Maltby Street Market, London, England

    duck fat

  • Flat Iron

    112-116 Tooley Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    17/18 Henrietta Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    17 Beak Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    9 Denmark Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    77 Curtain Road, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    44 James Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    88-90 Commercial Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    47-51 Caledonian Road, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron

    Soho Wharf, Clink Street, London, England

    beef tallowbutter

  • Flat Iron Hammersmith

    18 Hammersmith Broadway, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutter

  • Flat Iron Kensington

    45 Southwark St, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutter

  • Flat Iron Square

    45 Southwark St, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutter

  • Flat Iron Waterloo

    41-45 The Cut, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutter

  • Flat Iron Westfield London

    Unit 1053a Ariel Way, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutter

  • Hawksmoor

    1 Water Street, London, England

    beef tallow

  • sear.

    Hackney Bridge, Echo Building, E Bay Lane, London, England

    beef tallowgheebutterolive oil

  • Superfish

    20 London Road, Morden, London, England

    beef tallow

  • Terra Rossa

    139 Upper Street, London, England

    olive oil

  • The Fryer's Delight

    8 Theobald's Road, London, England

    beef tallow

  • Zuaya London

    35B Kensington High Street, London, England

    olive oil

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

    194 Baker St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    92 Wigmore St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    2 Electric Ln, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    32 Parkway, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Units 22, 23 Jubilee Pl, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    9, 11 Villiers St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    217-221 Chiswick High Rd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    182-184 Clapham High St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    1-3 Long Acre, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Deliveroo Editions, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Central Buildings, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Southbury Leisure Park, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    11 Bank Buildings, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    71 Upper St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    183 Kensington High St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    287, 297 Pentonville Rd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    127 King's Rd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    186-190 Bishopsgate, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Sutherland House, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Royale Leisure Park, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit 1, 2 Coventry St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    160 Portobello Rd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    46/48 Putney High St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    59/63 Queensway, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    43 Thurloe St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    The O2 Entertainment Centre, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    266 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit 2, 2 More London Pl, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Roof Garden Level, Cardinal Place, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    265 High St, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Concourse Level, Unit 203, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    8 Wembley Park Blvd, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit 2, 160 W End Ln, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit 1069/1070 Lower Mall Westfield, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit LR09 314, The Loft, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    48, 50 The Broadway, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Unit 12, The Mall, London, England

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys ST. PAUL'S

    4 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, England

    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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