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Seed oil free restaurants in Austin, TX

Short answer

35 places in Austin, TX are reported to cook without seed oils: 33 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.

  • Austin Tea Xchange Cafe

    13011 Shops Pkwy, Austin, TX

    olive oil

  • Boa Steakhouse

    300 W 6th St, Austin, TX

    beef tallowolive oil

  • But First, Donuts

    2118 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX

    coconut oil

  • Cafe Largesse

    2800 Barton Creek Blvd, Austin, TX

    avocado oil

  • Casa de Luz East

    1915 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX

    coconut oil

  • Casa de Luz Village

    1701 Toomey Rd, Austin, TX

    coconut oil

  • Dai Due

    2406 Manor Road, Austin, TX

    beef tallowlardduck fatbutterolive oil

  • Devil May Care

    500 W 6th St, Austin, TX

    olive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Dish Society

    1600 S 1st St, Austin, TX

    butterolive oil

  • Dish Society

    1900 Aldrich St, Austin, TX

    butterolive oil

  • Farmhouse Delivery

    9715 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX

    olive oil

  • Gems Cafe & Bistro

    1700 Congress Ave., Austin, TX

    beef tallowduck fatgheebutterolive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Haywire

    11501 Rock Rose Ave, Austin, TX

    beef tallow

  • Mesocano

    2006 Philomena St, Austin, TX

    beef tallowlard

  • Picnik

    4801 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX

    butter

  • Picnik South 1st

    1600 1st St S, Suite 110, Austin, TX

    butter

  • Picnik South Lamar

    1700 Lamar Blvd S, Austin, TX

    butter

  • Roots Chicken Shak

    1801 East 51st Street, Austin, TX

    duck fat

  • TenTen

    501 W 6th St, Austin, TX

    beef tallowolive oilavocado oil

  • The Well

    440 W 2nd St, Austin, TX

    butter

  • The Well - Westlake

    6317 Bee Caves Rd, Austin, TX

    butterolive oilavocado oilcoconut oil

  • Buffalo Wild Wings

    7604 N Interstate 35, Austin, TX

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - Little Texas Ln

    901 Little Texas Ln, Austin, TX

    beef tallowchain

  • Buffalo Wild Wings - N Interstate Hwy 35

    13000 N Interstate Hwy 35, Austin, TX

    beef tallowchain

  • Outback Steakhouse - Research Blvd

    11600 Research Blvd, Austin, TX

    beef tallowchain

  • Pappasito's Cantina

    6513 I-35, Austin, TX

    beef tallowbuttercoconut oilchain

  • sweetgreen

    1007 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen

    200 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen

    2234 Guadalupe Street, Austin, TX

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen

    1900 Aldrich Street, Austin, TX

    olive oilchain

  • sweetgreen - Rock Rose Ave

    11501 Rock Rose Ave, Austin, TX

    olive oilchain

  • True Food Kitchen - Seaholm Residences

    222 West Ave, Austin, TX

    olive oilavocado oilchain

  • True Food Kitchen - The Domain

    11410 Century Oaks Terrace, Austin, TX

    olive oilavocado 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

    10000 Research Blvd #142, Austin, TX

    peanut oilchain

  • Five Guys

    4301 W William Cannon Dr E-200, Austin, TX

    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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