Food Reporter
Lily O'Neill
Lily O’Neill was The Denver Post's food reporter from 2022-2024. She covered all things food in the Mile High City, whether thatap a new restaurant, a roundup of some of the top spots to visit around town or a glimpse at whatap making foodies drool these days in Denver. Before The Post, she reported on the restaurant industry, real estate market and startup world for BusinessDen and previously worked as an intern for 5280. She is a Kansas City native and a University of Missouri Journalism School graduate with a minor in Spanish, and has previously won an award for business reporting at the Kansas City Star.
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Meet the private chef who can turn your home into a five-star sushi restaurant
At Fish On Rice, Dinh provides an experience that includes multiple courses of sashimi, tempura, cooked fish, wagyu, sushi and dessert.

How Denver’s hottest food truck is shining a spotlight on the local AAPI food scene
Penelope Wong was prepared for an angry mob. It was Yuan Wonton's first day of service, and her food truck was parked outside Seedstock Brewery on a hot August afternoon...

The 7 best barbecue joints in Denver, in the opinion of a Kansas City native
As a Kansas City native, I’ve been spoiled with a plethora of good barbecue options growing up.
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Denver’s best spicy chicken sandwich: Vote in the Elite 8 round of our March Madness food bracket
We’ve tallied your votes, and the results for the Elite Eight competitors for our 2023 March Madness spicy chicken sandwich battle are in.

7 ways to celebrate the luck of the Irish this St. Patrick’s Day
If you missed last week’s Denver St. Patrick’s Parade, don’t worry, you’re in luck, because St. Patrick’s Day isn’t even until Friday, March 17, so the party must go on.

Feast on fowl and fire at Colorado’s original Nashville hot chicken joint
Music City Hot Chicken claims to be the first Nashville hot chicken restaurant to open in Colorado.

Chocolate for dinner? Chocolate Lab reopens in larger Denver space
What's not to love about a restaurant that uses chocolate in every single dish?

Denver’s best spicy chicken sandwich: Vote in the Sweet 16 round of our March Madness food bracket
We’ve now entered the Sweet 16 division of our spicy chicken sandwich battle, and things are certainly heating up.

Upscale Denver restaurant shuts down for the week after fire in wood-burning stove
Chef Kelly Whitaker couldn’t stand the heat of Bruto’s kitchen this weekend.

Beckon replaces Call with champagne-focused small-bites restaurant
Craig Lieberman commissioned a space-themed mural next to Beckon before he even opened the tasting menu-only restaurant in RiNo in 2018.

Chook closes Stanley Marketplace location after nearly three years
"We do a lot of takeout, so our other shops are entrenched in communities where you can swing in real quick, but Stanley is a little bit more of a...

5 can’t-miss menus for Denver Restaurant Week
Denver Restaurant Week kicks off today, so itap time to guilt your friends and family into eating out every night for the next 10 days.

Former Toro, Tamayo executive chef wins Food Network’s “Chopped”
Oscar Padilla was offered the opportunity to go on Food Network’s “Chopped” cooking competition series three times while he was working for Richard Sandoval Hospitality over the past 10 years.