Allyson Reedy

Food Writer

Allyson Reedy

Allyson Reedy is first and foremost an eater. While her affinity for food was detrimental to her dreams of modeling swimwear, it helps her tremendously when writing about local restaurants for the Denver Post. She's so obsessed with desserts that she wrote the treats-centric cookbook, 50 Things to Bake Before You Die.

Without international cuisine, Denver would be a much duller place | Commentary

July 22, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The most delicious thing you've never heard of yet is probably already simmering in somebody's kitchen.

A food delivery rider waits for the traffic light to change Monday, March 30, 2020, in Lone Tree, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Nothing under $2 a mile 鈥� and other stories from a Colorado DoorDash driver

July 15, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

"While we didn鈥檛 have any illusions about getting rich off of this, we thought we could get minimum wage," Allyson Reedy writes about becoming a DoorDash driver. "Not so much."

DENVER, CO - JULY 18: Kira Abakumov of Washington Park with David Fathalikhanl of Golden (center couple) having dinner in Sotto Voce below street level at Jovanina's Broken Italian restaurant in Denver, Colorado on July 18, 2019. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post)

Why are Colorado restaurants so freaking loud? | Commentary

May 13, 2026 at 8:12 a.m.

Noise in restaurants is the top thing people talk about when they talk about food.

One of the problems with tipping is it creates wage disparities between workers in the front of the house (servers) and the back of the house (the people who make your food). (Getty Images)

For the love of xiao long bao, can we please figure out tipping?

April 15, 2026 at 6:20 a.m.

Can we have one giant diners' conference where we vote on this?

There are a lot of things you can learn by studying your grocery store receipts. (Getty Images)

Things I discovered by studying my grocery receipt | 抖阴ap

March 11, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

Is my $130 a week average for my family of four admirable or alarming?

The popularity of high-protein diets and GLP-1 medications are driving restaurants to offer smaller portions. (Getty Images)

Are GLP-1 weight-loss drugs really rewriting Denver restaurant menus? | 抖阴ap

February 11, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

Restaurants like Olive & Finch and Tap & Burger now cater to leaner appetites.

Takeout used to be the pressure valve, the thing that kept us from burning out after returning from work, out of energy and willpower. (Getty Images)

Is takeout dying? The middle ground between the cost of eating out, cooking is disappearing.

February 10, 2026 at 12:37 p.m.

Commentary: Denver's takeout options didn't stop being delicious, they stopped being affordable

Maybe we want to keep quiet about our frozen Salisbury steak and brownies because it conveys something shameful, something less-than. (Getty Images)

An ode to microwave dinners: Food doesn’t have to be perfect to matter | 抖阴ap

February 10, 2026 at 12:38 p.m.

When you grow up in a family without much money or time, soggy Kid Cuisine fried chicken brings back nostalgia.

Olta whisky starts with the indigenous ma铆z criollo, or Creole corn, grown in P谩tzcuaro, a mountainous Michoac谩n town. (Rodrigo Alegria Velazquez, provided by Olta)

Colorado’s Olta whisky a rarity in the macho world of Mexican spirits

September 24, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Most everything -- from tending the crops to distilling the liquid to bottling it up 鈥� is done by women.

Olive & Finch Cherry Creek dishes up a filling array of baked goods. Photo by Allyson Reedy, The Know.

London? Paris? Nope. These Colorado bakeries are worth traveling for.

September 12, 2025 at 7:17 a.m.

More people than ever want to get in on these pastry pilgrimages, and we鈥檙e willing to travel.

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