Indigenous Food Lab
Permanently Closed
Indigenous foodways education, market, test kitchen, and training center
Indigenous foodways education, market, test kitchen, and training center
"A local food organization/producer cited as the source of wild rice used on the restaurant’s menu, contributing to its sense of place." - Katherine Lawless
"A market and learning space located inside Midtown Global Market that has served as a hub for Indigenous foodmakers, product sales, and educational programming; it is closing on June 7 to prepare for relocation to the newly reclaimed building on Franklin Avenue where the program will continue as part of a larger NATIFS campus. The space functions to increase access to culturally specific foods for Indigenous communities and to provide production, retail, and training opportunities tied to Indigenous foodways." - Nylah Iqbal Muhammad
"A market presence offering distinctive beverages like warm rose petal and lemongrass tea and other Indigenous food items, highlighting Indigenous culinary traditions within a communal market setting." - AFAR
"Located on Lake Street, the Indigenous Food Lab Market offers Native-made products such as wild rice, wild hawthorn jelly from Red Lake Nation Foods, and a hot honey hot sauce from Sakari Farms." - Justine Jones
"An educational and production space created to revive and supply traditional Indigenous ingredients and techniques for restaurants and programming, producing items like fresh Potawatomi corn tortillas used in contemporary Indigenous kitchens and serving as a hub for recipe development, training, and broader efforts to restore heirloom seeds and native foodways." - Sean Sherman