Josie Sexton
Josie joined The Denver Post in 2019 and worked as the food reporter, covering the restaurant, bar and beer beats until mid-2022. She continues to freelance for The Post on occasion, offering travel content and other features news.
Prior to joining the Post in 2019, she worked for Eater and The Coloradoan. Outside of Colorado, her work has appeared in outlets from Sunset to The New York Times.
Josie is currently completing a master's degree in literature from Middlebury College. In 2009, she graduated from The Ohio State University with degrees in Spanish linguistics and international relations. She speaks Spanish and can muddle through Catalan when pressed.
Featured Stories

These classic Denver restaurants never get old, even after decades in business
Not quite historic but not new either, these 10- to 35-year-old spots are the ones we keep going back to.

The Hatch and Pueblo chile feud is heating up. Why is Colorado losing?
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the Southwest chile war.

Where has Denver’s soul food gone? In a historically black neighborhood, the last restaurant of its kind turns 20
Five Points only has one soul food spot still standing. But is a comeback in Denver's future?
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Historic Denver mansion gets new life as boutique hotel, bar and restaurant
Urban Cowboy has boutique hotels in New York and Nashville, with another on the way in Denver.

5 Colorado chain restaurants that are staples for our food reporter
They're meal stops for any day of the week.

Denver’s bakery scene is on fire: Here are 3 hot new shops to watch
For a city with such a serious baking obsession, Denver started out on a much slower burn.

Arvada just got a food hall with new-to-Colorado chefs and some well-known names
Freedom Street Social opens to the public on Wednesday, July 13, with 10 food and drink concepts.

20 Denver chefs, bartenders, restaurateurs named “rising stars”
To celebrate the Denver winners, StarChefs will host Rising Stars Restaurant Week(s) from July 19 to Aug. 2.

8 Colorado food and drink festivals worth driving to this summer
Bonus: They all take place in mountain towns or neighborhoods where we'd recommend spending a weekend.

The iconic Casa Bonita fountain is gone, but not for long
In the meantime, the pink palace's towering facade is still intact.

A trend-setting Denver restaurant group is now employee-owned
Edible Beats joins around 100 other Colorado-based employee-owned companies.

Denver’s diners are dying, but at least two of them will take on new life later this year
Two local restaurant properties' transformations show what a future for these community spaces could look like, under very different circumstances.

Looking for Denver’s best tacos? Our March Madness-winning food truck has a new location
The birria taco truck is stationed for the season closer to central Denver.