"Owamni won the intensely competitive James Beard Award for best new restaurant in 2022. Here, chef Sean Sherman brings Indigenous cooking to the forefront of the national restaurant scene. The decolonized menu is built on foods that are indigenous to North America — meaning no flour, dairy, beef, pork, or refined sugar is used in the kitchen. In their place are dishes like game tartare with duck fat squash, smoked lake trout tostadas, and bison fat caramels. Owamni started as a kickstarter campaign, breaking a site record in 2016 by bringing in $150,000 in a month. Today, it’s a modern, full-service, Indigenous restaurant, stationed in a white stone building on the banks of the Mississippi River, not far from St. Anthony Falls — or, in the Dakota language, Owámniyomni, a sacred site of peace and well-being." - Eater Staff
