James Beard Award-winning Indigenous restaurant Owamni is starting weekend brunch and launching a new weekly dinner series.

Starting this Sunday, brunch will be served at Owamni on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Owamni’s inaugural brunch menu features chilaquiles with elk chili and duck eggs; game sausage benedict with duck eggs and arepa; ground elk patty with wild rice, gravy, and a duck egg; corn cakes with maple and stewed blackberry, blue bread with hot maple, and creamy tepary beans with caramelized squash. Dishes range from $18 to $24.

The riverfront restaurant co-founded by Sean Sherman will also host the Turtle Island Dinner Series, featuring an eight-course tasting menu, every Thursday night from Jan. 23 to March 27, with two seatings each night at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $150 per person.

Owamni opened at 420 S. First St. in 2021 and won Best New Restaurant at the James Beard Awards in 2022.

Sherman just announced he's opening another restaurant, ŠHOTÁ Indigenous BBQ, in the Seward Co-op Creamery building, which was acquired by his nonprofit NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems) for its new headquarters.