Eating out

Seed oil free restaurants in Maryland

Short answer

104 places in Maryland are reported to cook without seed oils: 44 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 60 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.

Cities in Maryland

Elsewhere in Maryland

Towns with fewer than 3 venues do not get their own page, so their entries are listed here.

  • Mezeh Mediterranean Grill

    1314 Main Chapel Way, Gambrills, MD

    olive oil

  • The Alley Restaurant at the Naval Academy Club

    2 Truxtun Rd, Naval Academy, MD

    beef tallowolive oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    10601 Martin Luther King Jr Hwy, Bowie, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    7000 Arundel Mills Circle, Hanover, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    8200 Perry Hall Blvd, Nottingham, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    33 Maryland Ave, Rockville, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    11215 Mall Circle, Waldorf, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    1630 Ritchie Station Court, Fairmount Hgt, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    12107 Winchester Rd, La Vale, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    4420 Long Gate Pkwy, Ellicott City, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    2507 Evergreen Rd, Gambrills, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    7744 Governor Ritchie Hwy, Glen Burnie, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    3500 East-West Hwy, Hyattsville, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    12741 Ocean Gateway #920, Ocean City, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    3020 Robert S. Crain Hwy, Waldorf, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    245 Baltimore Blvd, Westminster, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    134 Shawan Rd, Hunt Valley, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    9660 Lottsford Ct, Largo, MD

    beef tallowchain

  • sweetgreen

    11875 Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, MD

    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

    9210 Baltimore National Pike #102, Ellicott City, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    6711 Ritchie Hwy, Glen Burnie, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    3500 East-West Hwy Unit 1280, Hyattsville, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    13601 Coastal Hwy, Ocean City, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    936 York Rd, Towson, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    45250-B Worth Ave, California, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    817 Maiden Choice Ln #100, Catonsville, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    12175 Clarksville Pike #205, Clarksville, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    7730 Old Branch Ave, Clinton, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    722 E Pulaski Hwy #101, Elkton, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    12840 Pinnacle Dr, Germantown, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    10510 Connecticut Ave, Kensington, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    7 Shining Willow Way, La Plata, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    505 E Ridgeville Blvd, Mount Airy, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    1157 Annapolis Rd, Odenton, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    3333 Olney Sandy Spring Rd, Olney, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    6017 Oxon Hill Rd h, Oxon Hill, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    4131 Mountain Rd, Pasadena, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    Solomons, Solomons, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - 140 Village Shopping Center

    596 Jermor Ln, Westminster, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Arundel Preserve

    7690 Dorchester Blvd Suite 107, Hanover, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Bowie Town Center

    3851 Town Center Blvd, Bowie, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Charles County Plaza

    St Charles, Saint Charles, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Cipriano Square

    8863 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Crain Highway

    1060 Crain Hwy, Crofton, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Dundalk Plaza

    1401 Merritt Blvd, Dundalk, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Goucher Commons

    823 Goucher Blvd, Towson, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Kent Island

    200 Abruzzi Dr b, Chester, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Londontown Square

    1311 Londontown Blvd, Eldersburg, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Market Square Shopping Center

    870 Costley Way, Prince Frederick, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - North Plaza Shopping Center

    8904 Waltham Woods Rd, Parkville, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Potomac Promenade

    9812 Falls Rd, Potomac, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Rockville Town Square

    130 Gibbs St, Rockville, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Severna Park Marketplace

    549 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Shoppes at Apple Greene

    10105 Ward Rd, Dunkirk, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Shoppes at Nottingham Square

    5272 Campbell Blvd, Nottingham, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Steeplechase

    9101 Alaking Ct #300, Capitol Heights, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Towne Plaza

    12029 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - York Marketplace

    10015 York Rd, Cockeysville, MD

    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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