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Seed oil free restaurants in Edmonton, Alberta

Short answer

21 places in Edmonton, Alberta are reported to cook without seed oils: 16 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 5 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.

  • Brits Fish & Chips

    6940 77 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Hayloft Steak + Fish

    639 Cameron Heights Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • IDLE Kitchen and Coffee

    8315 Argyll Rd NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Odd Company Brewing

    12021 102 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • OEB Breakfast Co.

    10174 100a St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallowduck fat

  • OEB Breakfast Co.

    10240 124 St, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallowduck fat

  • OEB Breakfast Co.

    5133 Mullen Rd, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallowduck fat

  • Ribeye Butcher Shop (Manning)

    15534 37 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Ribeye Butcher Shop (Terra Losa)

    9512 170 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Ribeye Butcher Shop (Windermere)

    6230 Currents Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • The Bro'Kin Yolk

    1641 102 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    duck fat

  • Western Sandwich Company Manchester Square

    12032 107 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    duck fatbutter

  • Woodshed Burgers

    10723 124 St, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Woodshed Burgers

    2307 Ellwood Dr SW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • Woodshed Burgers

    637 Cameron Heights Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallow

  • C-Lovers Fish & Chips

    4121 139 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    beef tallowchain

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 - Capilano Mall

    5015 101 Ave NW #110, Edmonton, Alberta

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Currents of Windermere

    6222 Currents Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Manning

    15420 37 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - South Edmonton Common

    10161 13 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Stony Plain Road

    10010 171 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta

    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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