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.

Denver Restaurant Week has gone from 83 eateries to 238 since it started. Here’s some menu help for 2019.

November 17, 2021 at 1:05 p.m.

A three-course meal will run you $25, $35 or $45 per person starting Feb. 22. For some spots, this is a steal, which is why this week can be a...

The shared bathroom at Cho 77 and LeRoux features blue subway tile and painting that extends up the wall and covers the ceiling on January 7, 2019 in Denver. (Seth McConnell, Special to the Denver Post)

Best seat in the house: The coolest restaurant and bar bathrooms in Denver

February 12, 2019 at 9:17 a.m.

From quirky wallpaper to snazzy tile to amusing art installations, restaurants have been making the restrooms the best rooms.

Best seat in the house: The coolest restaurant and bar bathrooms in Denver

November 17, 2021 at 1:05 p.m.

From quirky wallpaper to snazzy tile to amusing art installations, restaurants have been making the restrooms the best rooms.

(Jeff Neumann, The Denver Post; photos by Thinkstock for Getty Images)

No excuses: Here are 20 Valentine鈥檚 Day dining options along the Front Range

February 7, 2019 at 1:17 p.m.

No matter who your Valentine is this year -- a spouse, girlfriend, dad, kid, BFF, lobster risotto -- the absolute best way to show them just how much they're loved...

No excuses: Here are 20 Valentine’s Day dining options along the Front Range

November 17, 2021 at 1:04 p.m.

No matter who your Valentine is this year -- a spouse, girlfriend, dad, kid, BFF, lobster risotto -- the absolute best way to show them just how much they're loved...

A doughnut at Habit Carbon Five Points is being injected with CBD cold brew coffee. (Victoria Gonzalez, provided by Habit Carbon Five Points)

Liquor- and CBD-injected robot doughnuts come to Five Points

February 6, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

Sometimes it抖阴ap hard to find the hook when writing restaurant opening stories, that thing that sets it apart and makes it different from everything else out there. This is not...

Liquor- and CBD-injected robot doughnuts come to Five Points

November 17, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.

The robot doughnut-maker is set up behind the bakery counter, so yes, you can watch.

A roast beef Po'Boy. (Allyson Reedy, Special to The Denver Post)

New Orleans comes to RiNo with Pirate Alley Po鈥橞oys

January 31, 2019 at 11:47 a.m.

The trio of po'boy options are roast beef with sweet potato chips and gravy, fried shrimp with pickled green tomato and smoked turkey with celery slaw and smoked grapes.

New Orleans comes to RiNo with Pirate Alley Po’Boys

November 17, 2021 at 1:04 p.m.

The trio of po'boy options are roast beef with sweet potato chips and gravy, fried shrimp with pickled green tomato and smoked turkey with celery slaw and smoked grapes.

Options (used to) abound at the Whole Foods by Denver’s Union Station to fill a mac and cheese craving. (Georg Beyer, Provided by Whole Foods)

R.I.P. Denver Whole Foods mac and cheese bar

January 29, 2019 at 2:51 p.m.

The Union Station location hosted the chain's first-ever mac and cheese bar.

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