Oil Watch helps you find restaurants that cook with olive oil, tallow, avocado oil, and other traditional fats instead of industrial seed oils like soybean, canola, and corn oil.
Every restaurant is community-sourced and reviewed, with what it uses for frying, cooking fats, dressings, bread and sauces. Pick your city below, or open the Oil Watch app on iPhone for a live map of rated restaurants around you.
Open the Oil Watch app on your iPhone: its live map shows rated restaurants around your location, with what each one uses for frying, cooking, dressings, bread and sauces. On the web, pick your city below or browse every covered city at oilwatch.app/map.
Seed oil free means a restaurant does not cook with industrial seed oils such as soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, or safflower oil. Instead, these restaurants use traditional cooking fats like olive oil, beef tallow, avocado oil, coconut oil, butter, or ghee.
Many independent restaurants, Mediterranean restaurants, steakhouses, and health-focused eateries avoid seed oils. Oil Watch maintains a community-sourced database of restaurants with detailed cooking oil breakdowns. Browse oilwatch.app/map to see rated restaurants by city, from Seed Oil Free to Use Caution.
Yes. Oil Watch is a free iPhone app that maps restaurants across the United States by the oils they cook with, from Seed Oil Free to Contains Seed Oils. Each listing is community-sourced and reviewed, with the oils used for frying, cooking, dressings, bread and sauces. OilWatch Pro adds filters, saved spots and alerts for $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Every restaurant also has a free page on oilwatch.app.
The most common seed oils to avoid at restaurants are soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, and generic "vegetable oil" (which is typically soybean oil). These are industrially processed, high in omega-6 fatty acids, and break down when heated repeatedly. Look for restaurants using olive oil, tallow, butter, or avocado oil instead.