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The Fry Bread House, a James Beard Award-winning Native American restaurant in Phoenix, closed temporarily after a kitchen fire. Here's what we know.

In 1992, Tohono O’odham tribe member Cecelia Miller opened The Fry Bread House with three kinds of fry bread. She made $50 her first day, and the battle to stay open has been uphill from there. By ...

Native American fry bread is a pillowy, frisbee-sized fried dough that serves as a vessel for honey and powdered sugar or filling toppings like beans, vegetables, and meats and cheeses.

Cecelia Miller, who founded Fry Bread House in 1992 and ran it until the mid-2010s, died last week after a long, non-COVID-related illness. She was 81.

The Fry Bread House will be closed until further notice for repairs, according to the restaurant's Facebook page. A photo shared by the fire department shows a large hole in the kitchen ceiling.

Fry Bread House was the first Native American restaurant to receive the "America's Classics" designation. Miller died this month at age 81.

On a recent Thursday, the lunch rush at The Fry Bread House in central Phoenix was more of a trickle. By noon, there were a few cars in the sunny lot, which had always been full in pre-pandemic days.