The Guthrie Theater and North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems, known as NATIFS, announced Wednesday that Owamni — the James Beard Award-winning restaurant founded by chef Sean Sherman — will relocate to the Guthrie’s main-floor restaurant space.

Sherman said the move allows him to reimagine parts of the menu.

“Some theatergoer is going to come in there just looking for something quick, we'll have a lot of options for some quick-fire foods,” he said.

Sherman says he's grateful for Owamni's current location near St. Anthony Falls, but the Guthrie space offers more room.

“It just feels like a really wonderful, kind of natural evolution of expanding what we've already created.”

The Guthrie’s restaurant space, which features a bar and an open horseshoe kitchen, has been dorman

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