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50 Best Restaurants in America 2022
Owamni,
Minneapolis,
MN
Owamni is an Indigenous restaurant that eschews colonial ingredients like most farm animals, dairy, wheat flour and cane sugar. Instead, look for bison and elk, Tepary beans, heirloom corn, hemlock, rosehips and true wild rice. Where possible, ingredients are sourced from local and national Indigenous farmers. Wines are also from Indigenous winemakers and Mexico, where North American winemaking began. Far from being an academic or charitable exercise, though, dishes like game tartare with suman, chokeberry and duck egg aioli are simply delicious.
