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Seed oil free restaurants in Denver, CO

Short answer

17 places in Denver, CO are reported to cook without seed oils: 15 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 2 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.

  • Green Bus Cafe

    1426 E 22nd Ave, Denver, CO

    olive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Just BE Kitchen

    2364 15th Street, Denver, CO

    olive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Onefold

    1139, 1420 E 18th Ave, Denver, CO

    lardduck fatbutter

  • Onefold

    1919 19th St, Denver, CO

    lardduck fatbutter

  • Rewild at Nurture

    2949 Federal Boulevard, Denver, CO

    olive oilcoconut oil

  • Waldo's Chicken & Beer

    8264 Northfield Blvd, Denver, CO

    beef tallow

  • Western Daughters Kitchen

    4777 National Western Dr, Denver, CO

    beef tallowlardduck fatgheebutteravocado oilcoconut oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - E 36th Ave

    7607 E 36th Ave, Denver, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    16301 East 40th Ave, Denver, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • Smashburger

    2001 Blake Street, Denver, CO

    beef tallowchain

  • sweetgreen - S Colorado Blvd

    2770 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - St Paul St

    275 St Paul St, Denver, CO

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Tennyson St

    3985 Tennyson St, Denver, CO

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Wewatta St

    1750 Wewatta St, Denver, CO

    olive oilchain

  • True Food Kitchen

    2800 East 2nd Avenue, Denver, CO

    olive oilavocado 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 - E Northfield Blvd

    8201 Northfield Blvd, Denver, CO

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - University Park

    2021 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, 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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