Portland finally has an Indigenous restaurant. Javelina, which started as a pop-up in November 2023, opened as a permanent brick-and-mortar on January 23 at Lil’ Dame. By day, Javelina is a counter-service restaurant serving contemporary Native American dishes like fry bread alongside traditional foods like someviki, a.k.a. Hopi corn tamales. Starting February 8, Javelina will transform at night into Inɨ́sha, a multi-course dinner concept. Inɨ́sha will use only ingredients native to “Turtle Island” — the term many Indigenous groups use to refer to North America — provided by other Indigenous businesses wherever possible.
“Us offering Indigenous food as a whole is a very special experience,” says chef Alexa Numkena-Anderson,
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