Owamni is a restaurant by The Sioux Chef, an Indigenous food initiative founded by chef Sean Sherman, located on the banks of the Mississippi River adjacent to Saint Anthony Falls. The menu is built entirely from ingredients available in North America before European colonisation — no wheat, dairy, beef, pork, or cane sugar — and draws on Indigenous cooking traditions from across the continent.
Dishes might include bison tartare with wojapi (berry sauce), cedar-braised duck with wild rice, or smoked trout with nettle sauce. The cooking is sophisticated rather than ethnographic, using traditional ingredients in a contemporary fine-dining context. The restaurant received a James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in 2022. Reservations are strongly advised and can be made weeks in advance.