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Mendocino Farms

98 locations · 1 rating

21/100Avoid
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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight0
  • Additives2× weight50
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight50

Plastics has no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow2w ago

Mendocino Farms reads as a scratch kitchen but its own 52-page ingredient list shows a seed oil in 44 of 46 menu items, driven by one bought-in soybean-oil mayonnaise and a canola or palm blend in every bread. Half the menu also carries a hard additive, most often calcium disodium EDTA.

Rated 2026-08-28 from Mendocino Farms' own "INGREDIENTS LIST Feb 2026", 52 pages, 881,561 bytes, at https://contact.mendocinofarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Ingredient-ListNutritionals-Feb2026_1.16.pdf - full sub-ingredient statements for every component of every build. FINDING THE DOCUMENT IS THE WHOLE TRICK. Their FAQ actively misleads: "Our full ingredient list is available at every restaurant location upon request", and the nutrition PDF it links contains the string "oil" zero times. The real file sits on their legacy WordPress host, unlinked from the current site, and was found through the open wp-json/wp/v2/media endpoint. Seed oils: 44 of 46 items. Scored "all": the only two without are the BBQ Chicken & Gouda and Italian Prosciutto & Fig catering cocktail sandwiches, so no ordinary menu item avoids one. Additives: 24 of 46 carry a hard additive.

Common questions

What is in Mendocino Farms's food?

Tallow reviewers check Mendocino Farms on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Mendocino Farms use seed oils?

Yes. Mendocino Farms scores 0/100 here — reviewers report heavy seed oil use.

Does Mendocino Farms use artificial additives?

Sometimes. Mendocino Farms scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Is Mendocino Farms healthy?

Not really — Mendocino Farms scores 21/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Mendocino Farms serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Mendocino Farms scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Mendocino Farms locations

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  • Kirkland
  • 2118 Westlake Ave, Seattle
  • 1350 4th Ave, Seattle
  • 10655 NE 4th St, Bellevue
  • 16502 Cleveland St, Redmond
  • Fairfax
  • 14141 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks
  • 24420 Alicia Pkwy, Mission Viejo
  • 16350 Ventura Blvd #A, Encino
  • 31880 Paseo Adelanto, San Juan Capistrano
  • 1200 Smith St, Houston
  • 609 Main St, Houston
  • 1111 Uptown Park Blvd, Houston
  • 600 N Shepherd Dr, Houston
  • 8777 N Scottsdale Rd #304, Scottsdale
  • 3453 W 32nd Ave, Denver
  • Denver
  • Santa Rosa
  • 875 Russell Blvd Ste 110, Davis
  • 1640 E Monte Vista Ave, Vacaville
  • 1895 Ygnacio Valley Rd # 28, Walnut Creek
  • 1919 Shattuck, Berkeley
  • 300 Mission St, San Francisco
  • 303 2nd St, San Francisco
  • 465 California St, San Francisco
  • 749 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley
  • 242 Redwood Shores Pkwy, Redwood City
  • 1060 Park Pl, San Mateo
  • 401 San Antonio Rd, Mountain View
  • 167 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto
  • 2040 Wyatt Dr, Santa Clara
  • 1696 Saratoga Ave, San Jose
  • 3090 Olsen Dr, San Jose
  • 5130 Dublin Blvd Ste S1H, Dublin
  • 6000 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon
  • 1610 R St Ste 125, Sacramento
  • 4730 Freeport Blvd Ste 110, Sacramento
  • 2339 Fair Oaks Blvd Ste C, Sacramento
  • 165 Placerville Rd Ste E-101, Folsom
  • 1210 Roseville Pkwy, Roseville

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