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Seed oil free restaurants in Albuquerque, NM

Short answer

10 places in Albuquerque, NM 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, 3 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.

  • Mission Winery

    3423 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallow
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Coors Blvd NW

    10015 Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Iliff Rd NW

    6001 Iliff Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Montgomery Blvd NE

    8505 Montgomery Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallowchain
  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Towne Center Ln

    1700 Towne Center Ln, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse

    10022 Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM

    beef tallowchain
  • Outback Steakhouse

    4921 Jefferson St NE, Albuquerque, NM

    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 - Coronado Center

    6600 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Cottonwood

    3400 NM-528 Suite A102, Albuquerque, NM

    peanut oilchain
  • Five Guys - Holly Plaza

    6550 Paseo Del Norte Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM

    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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