Ben Jacobs

About Ben

• I’m a member of the Osage Nation from northeast Oklahoma.
• My family and I moved to Denver, Colorado, where my parents opened a restaurant called Gray Horse: An American Indian Eatery.
• After college, I knew that I wanted to do something that was tied to my identity—for me, that was food.
• I was inspired by my parents’ restaurant and used it as a prototype to create my own restaurant where Native people and the community at large can both enjoy Native American cuisine.
• Together with my business partner, Matt Chandra, we opened Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery in 2008.