Owamni

Although the ingredients are ancient, for most people, tasting things like sweet and nutty hand-harvested wild rice is new and revelatory—a taste of a history nearly lost by colonization. Tasting dishes created completely of indigenous ingredients at chef Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson's restaurant, constructed in a disused mill along the Mississippi River, is soul-nourishing.

Then there are the tea mixes made by indigenous people. Fresh berries strewn across a conifer-preserved rabbit. And the wild-rice tart is electrifying, because of the absence of colonization elements (such as wheat or refined sugar). Eating here gives you a taste of both the past and the future. Owamni is located at 420 First Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota—K.S.

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• Address: 420 First Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota—K.S.
  
• Website: http://owamni.com/