James Beard Awards names Owamni this year's best new restaurant

What he's saying: "I was so surprised, but I am very proud," chef and co-owner Sean Sherman told Axios Chicago's Monica Eng.

• "Not only can we bring this back to Minneapolis, we can carve a path for more Indigenous people to do this work and push to the front line."

Of note: Sherman, Jorge Guzmán of Petite Leon and Yia Vang of Union Hmong Kitchen lost their bids for best Midwestern chef to Dane Baldwin, of The Diplomat in Milwaukee.