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Seed oil free restaurants in Cincinnati, OH

Short answer

18 places in Cincinnati, OH are reported to cook without seed oils: 16 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.

  • Alara

    5410 Medpace Way, Cincinnati, OH

    butterolive oilavocado oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - 11363 Montgomery Rd

    11363 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - 7714 Montgomery Rd

    7714 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Beechmont Ave

    7741 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Calhoun St

    200 Calhoun St, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Glendale Milford Rd

    4550 Glendale Milford Rd, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - N Arbor Woods Ct

    4801 N Arbor Woods Ct, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Stone Creek Blvd

    3660 Stone Creek Blvd, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Colerain Ave

    9880 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Eastgate N Dr

    866 Eastgate N Dr, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Glenway Ave

    6168 Glenway Ave, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Montgomery Rd

    8240 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Princeton Pike

    11700 Princeton Pike, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    10181 Colerain Avenue, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    4949 Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati, OH

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    831 Clepper Lane, Cincinnati, OH

    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

    830 Eastgate S Dr, Cincinnati, OH

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    9578 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, OH

    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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