Seed oil free restaurants in Seattle, WA
Short answer
12 places in Seattle, WA are reported to cook without seed oils: 6 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 3 fry in peanut oil, 3 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.
Bateau
1040 E Union St, Seattle, WA
beef tallowMecca Cafe
526 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA
beef tallowgheeolive oilThe 5 Point Cafe
415 Cedar St, Seattle, WA
beef tallowgheeolive oilThe Butcher's Table
2121 Westlake Ave, Seattle, WA
beef tallowsweetgreen
801 Lenora St, Seattle, WA
olive oilchainsweetgreen - 11th Ave
1530 11th Ave, Seattle, WA
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
1500 NW Market St, Seattle, WA
peanut oilchainFive Guys
2600 SW Barton St c1, Seattle, WA
peanut oilchainFive Guys
311 NE 103rd St, Seattle, WA
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.
Sweet Alchemy Ice Creamery
4301 University Way Northeast, Seattle, WA
reported seed-oil freeSweet Alchemy Ice Creamery Ballard
1555 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA
reported seed-oil freeSweet Alchemy Ice Creamery Capitol Hill
1424 11th Avenue, Seattle, WA
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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