Owamni delivers polished Indigenous cuisine with decolonized, pre-colonial ingredients in a sleek spot overlooking the Mississippi River.
"A Native-owned restaurant and a national leader in the Indigenous food movement, known for serving dishes with wild rice as part of its winter menu, including a chocolate custard form." - Katherine Lawless
"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
"Owamni’s patio, which is often open for walk-ins, directly overlooks the Mississippi River. Come for the full Owamni experience or belly-up to the Wakpa Bar for a snackier menu of bison birria tacos and the like." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"Indigenous restaurant Owamni is 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, for which the restaurant is named. 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 Labrador tea custard." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"Located in a white stone building near St. Anthony Falls — known as Owámniyomni in the Dakota language — James Beard award-nominated Indigenous restaurant Owamni has an excellent vantage point of the powerful Mississippi rushing through Minneapolis. New this summer is Wakpa Bar, offering a snackier menu of bison birria tacos and the like." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
