Eating out

Seed oil free restaurants in New Hampshire

Short answer

33 places in New Hampshire are reported to cook without seed oils: 20 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 13 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 New Hampshire

Elsewhere in New Hampshire

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

  • Base Camp Cafe

    3 Lebanon St, Hanover, NH

    olive oil

  • Branch and Blade Brewing

    17 Bradco St, Keene, NH

    beef tallow

  • Ginger Fox Bakery

    100 Portsmouth Ave, Stratham, NH

    butterolive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Mana Kitchen

    192 Main St, Somersworth, NH

    butterolive oilavocado oil

  • Muriel's Donuts

    20 West Street, Lebanon, NH

    lard

  • Newbury Deli

    889 New Hampshire Route 103, Newbury, NH

    butterolive oil

  • The Hungry Diner

    9 Edwards Ln, Walpole, NH

    beef tallow

  • The Jefferson

    6 Drake Hl Rd, Strafford, NH

    beef tallowghee

  • Tinos Kitchen + Bar

    325 Lafayette Rd, Hampton, NH

    beef tallowbutterolive oil

  • Wild Willy’s Burgers

    724 Columbus Ave, Rochester, NH

    beef tallow

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    8 Loudon Rd, Concord, NH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    160 Washington St, Rochester, NH

    beef tallowchain

  • sweetgreen

    17 Artisan Dr, Salem, NH

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen

    7 Market St, Bedford, NH

    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

    56 Fort Eddy Rd, Concord, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    58 Key Rd, Keene, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    291 S Broadway, Salem, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    1623 White Mountain Hwy, Conway, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    15 Webb Pl, Dover, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Citizen Plaza

    61 Crystal Ave, Derry, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Southgate Shopping Center

    380 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Tilton Tanger Outlets

    120 Laconia Rd #510, Tilton, NH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Upper Valley Plaza

    250 N Plainfield Rd, Lebanon, NH

    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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