Bison Coffeehouse

While you wait for a perfect latte or from-scratch ricotta cake at Loretta Guzman’s café, you can’t avoid eye contact with the bison, whose woolly head and sharp horns lord over deerhide-backed chairs and roomy tables. It’s a tip-off that what is perhaps the city’s only Native American–owned coffee shop holds a rich vein of heritage. With its Native art and frequent community events, a visit on any random day can serve as a bit of an education.