Cooking oils used in the US and Canada differ at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Restaurants, without the seed oils
Nearly all restaurants use soy, canola, or other seed oil mystery blends as the standard oil to fry up food.
Food is better cooked with fats like lard, ghee, butter, tallow, and more. LF is here to help you find restaurants that use better oils in their cooking.
Cooking oils we like:
- Tallow
- Lard
- Butter
- Ghee
- Duck Fat
- Olive Oil
- Coconut Oil
Cooking oils we do not like:
- Seed Oils (canola, soy, etc)
- Cultured Oil (GMO microbe oil)
What is Cultured Oil?
Cultured Oil is a GMO product, deceivingly marketed as "GMO-free." This oil is made when genetically modified microbes produce fat, which is then extracted and sold as GMO-free cooking oil.
If your cooking oil was produced by GMOs, it's not GMO-free. Refusing to inform customers that your oil was produced by GMOs is no good.
How to find seed oil free restaurants
Use the seed oil free restaurant finder to find new places to eat some food near you, explore the global seed oil free restaurant map, or browse the restaurant directory.
Search the database
or use your device location
You can view filtered maps for beef tallow, pork lard, butter, ghee, duck fat, olive oil, and coconut oil. You can also view restaurants and eateries listed as 100% Seed Oil Free.
What is LocalFats.com?
LocalFats.com is an independent project built to connect you with restaurants who are serving real food and help us search for restaurants by the cooking oil they use.
This project runs on your tips.
How can you support this project?
Share the website, help others find good restaurants, add a restaurant or a cooking oil supplier to the map, let me know if information needs to be updated, leave a tip to help with operating costs.
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