Eating out

Seed oil free restaurants in Rhode Island

Short answer

10 places in Rhode Island are reported to cook without seed oils: 4 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 6 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.

Elsewhere in Rhode Island

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

  • Graze Burgers

    127 Granite St, Westerly, RI

    beef tallow

  • Standards Jamestown

    40 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown, RI

    beef tallowbutterolive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • The Food Shack

    1130 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown, RI

    beef tallowolive oilavocado oil

  • sweetgreen

    111 Hillside Road, Cranston, RI

    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

    1450 Hartford Ave, Johnston, RI

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    1599 Mineral Spring Ave, North Providence, RI

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Belmont Shoppers Park

    600 Kingstown Rd, South Kingstown, RI

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Cowesett Corners

    300 Quaker Ln, Warwick, RI

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Hoxsie

    63 Airport Rd, Warwick, RI

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys - Lincoln Mall

    622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln, RI

    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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