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.
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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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City Grille exterior burns in morning fire near Colorado Capitol
A fire outside downtown Denver's City Grille burned the patio and much of the restaurant's facade early Friday morning.

Proposed bill would allow to-go booze, alcohol delivery to become the new norm for Colorado bars, restaurants
The bill would continue Gov. Jared Polis' order and then repeal itself at around the two-year mark.

Black-owned Denver restaurants, allies step up in solidarity with George Floyd protests
Black-owned businesses in Denver and allies are raising funds, providing a platform for Black Lives Matter and more community organizations.

Black-owned Denver restaurants, allies step up in solidarity with George Floyd protests
Black-owned businesses in Denver and allies are raising funds, providing a platform for Black Lives Matter and more community organizations.

5 things to look out for if you’re starting to dine in Denver restaurants again
The basics and a few bonus points when it comes to health and safety

With guidelines still murky, Colorado bars, breweries start reopening along with restaurants
"They can be creative, and they can open if they choose," Polis said.

5 things to look out for if you’re starting to dine in Denver restaurants again
The basics and a few bonus points when it comes to health and safety

8 things we’ll miss about dining out at Colorado bars and restaurants this summer
"What does it mean to be a bar, and particularly (one) which I designed very intentionally to be intimate ... to encourage co-mingling?

With guidelines still murky, Colorado bars and breweries start reopening along with restaurants
The governor said places can reopen to in-house eating and drinking as long as they’re not acting as a “social free-for-all.”

Choose your own Colorado hot spring adventure, from ghost towns to underground caves
Take a dip in some of the less-touristed hot springs in Colorado.