Frybread

Where they are

Rolling out the map…

Positions are approximate.

The cooks

• Fry Bread House

  4545 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ · since 1992

  Cecelia Miller, a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation, opened it in 1992, and her children run it now.

  In 2012 it became the first Native American restaurant to win a James Beard America's Classics award. Frybread tacos with red or green chile beef, and dessert frybread with butter, honey or chocolate.

  Known for: Frybread tacos and dessert frybread

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Hope's Frybread

  144 S Mesa Dr, Mesa, AZ

  Hope and Aaron Peshlakai, who are Navajo and from Ganado, Arizona, started with pop-up stands in college and grew them into a restaurant.

  A mural on the wall shows Hope's grandmother, Dorothy Lowe, who taught her to make frybread.

  Known for: Navajo frybread and Navajo tacos

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Indian Pueblo Kitchen

  Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW, Albuquerque, NM

  Owned by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico and run by chef Josh Aragon of Laguna Pueblo.

  Head baker Rita Toledo, of Jemez Pueblo, rolls 240 balls of dough a day.

  Known for: Frybread and Pueblo breads

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• FireLake Fry Bread Taco

  Shawnee, OK · since 2014

  The Citizen Potawatomi Nation opened it in 2014 in the tribe's former convenience store, with a recipe developed alongside tribal elders.

  Beef, chicken and bison frybread tacos, and dessert frybread with strawberries.

  Known for: The bison frybread taco

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery

  3536 W 44th Ave, Denver, CO · since 2008

  Ben Jacobs, a member of the Osage Nation, co-founded it with Matt Chandra in 2008, using recipes from his grandmother, Georgeann Robinson.

  It took second place at the 2009 National Indian Taco Championship in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

  Known for: House-made frybread and Indian tacos

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Pow Wow Grounds

  1414 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN

  Robert Rice, White Earth Ojibwe, runs this coffee shop in the American Indian Cultural Corridor, plus a Frybread Factory food truck.

  During the federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis in 2026, it handed out about 5,000 pieces of frybread, along with soup and coffee.

  Known for: Frybread and a community table

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Off the Rez

  Burke Museum café and food truck, Seattle, WA

  Mark McConnell, whose mother is from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and Cecilia Rikard started Seattle's first Native food truck.

  In 2019 they opened a café at the Burke Museum. Frybread, sweet or savory.

  Known for: Frybread tacos

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.

• Peaches' Frybread

  Pop-ups around Kansas City (based in Lawrence, KS)

  Nadine Peaches, who is Navajo, learned to make frybread from her mother at age 7 in Tsegi, Arizona. She moved to Lawrence in 1989 and started the business in 2006.

  Navajo tacos, dessert frybread, and corn stew with lamb. Follow her Facebook page to find her.

  Known for: Navajo tacos

  Written about, not listed. Frybread isn't a donut, so this stop lives on the trail rather than in the listings.