Eating out

Seed oil free restaurants in Tennessee

Short answer

151 places in Tennessee are reported to cook without seed oils: 113 cook with animal fats or fruit oils — beef tallow, lard, duck fat, ghee, butter, olive, avocado or coconut oil, 34 fry in peanut oil, 4 report being seed-oil free without naming a fat. 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 Tennessee

Elsewhere in Tennessee

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

  • Bluestem Hollow

    7085 Morganton Rd, Greenback, TN

    beef tallowlardbutterolive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Grinder House Coffee Shop

    73 N Main St, Crossville, TN

    gheebutter

  • Jonathan’s Grille

    224 Maharris Dr, Gallatin, TN

    beef tallow

  • Lainey Lou's Kitchen

    213 E McMurry Blvd, Hartsville, TN

    beef tallow

  • Sapori di Napoli

    102 E Commercial Ave, Monterey, TN

    olive oil

  • The Black Olive Elizabethton

    173 Hudson Dr, Elizabethton, TN

    butterolive oil

  • The Family Table

    9 Dogwood St, Henry, TN

    beef tallowbutterolive oilavocado oil

  • Union Hill Trading Post

    1766 Union Hill Rd, Goodlettsville, TN

    beef tallowlardbutterolive oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    224 Hamilton Crossing Dr, Alcoa, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    1109 Nashville Pike, Gallatin, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    5215 Old Hickory Blvd, Hermitage, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    1721 E Stone Dr, Kingsport, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    99 Thornton Dr, Dickson, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    11431 Parkside Dr, Farragut, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    5744 TN-153, Hixson, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    8544 N, U.S. Hwy 51, Millington, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    2843 W Andrew Johnson Hwy, Morristown, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    1705 N Jackson St, Tullahoma, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    308 Bristol W Blvd, Bristol, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    1125 Franklin Rd, Lebanon, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse

    402 S Illinois Ave, Oak Ridge, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Gallatin Pike N

    1560 Gallatin Pike N, Madison, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Old Hickory Blvd

    5582 Old Hickory Blvd, Hermitage, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    719 Myatt Drive, Madison, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    5426 Target Drive, Antioch, TN

    beef tallowchain

  • Steak n Shake

    1036 Mineral Wells Avenue, Paris, TN

    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

    208 Hamilton Crossing Dr, Alcoa, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    412 Pinnacle Pkwy, Bristol, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    1708 E Stone Dr, Kingsport, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    6600 Stage Rd, Bartlett, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    3592 S Houston Levee Rd, Collierville, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    815 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    2526 Parkway, Pigeon Forge, TN

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    7531 Barnett Way, Powell, TN

    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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