Eating out

Seed oil free restaurants in Colorado Springs, CO

Short answer

11 places in Colorado Springs, CO are reported to cook without seed oils: 7 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 4 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.

  • Drip Queen Coffee Cafe & Lounge

    3230 Centennial Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO

    gheeolive oil

  • The Happy Cow

    2902 W Colorado Ave, Colorado Springs, CO

    beef tallow

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Geyser Dr

    2905 Geyser Dr, Colorado Springs, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - N Academy Blvd

    7425 N Academy Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - New Center Point

    3005 New Center Point, Colorado Springs, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    7065 Commerce Center Dr, Colorado Springs, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    2825 Geyser Dr, Colorado Springs, CO

    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 - Cinema Point

    3336 Cinema Point, Colorado Springs, CO

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Interquest Parkway

    1286 Interquest Pkwy Suite 100, Colorado Springs, CO

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - S Nevada Ave

    1612 S Nevada Ave #100, Colorado Springs, CO

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Shoppes at Academy

    7252 N Academy Blvd Unit 120, Colorado Springs, CO

    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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