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Kansas City Current announces Local Pig as next restaurant partner in CPKC Stadium

Kansas City Current announces Local Pig as next restaurant partner in CPKC Stadium on KC

We are incredibly excited to be a part of the culinary hospitality at CPKC Stadium

— Kansas City

Kansas City's Cowtown legacy lives on in these great butcher shops and meat markets

Kansas City's Cowtown legacy lives on in these great butcher shops and meat markets on KCUR | npr

There is no better place to start this adventure than the iconic Local Pig. Local Pig has been around since 2012 and came to City Market in 2019.

— Shannon Carpenter

The evolution of Local Pig

The evolution of Local Pig on Meat + Poultry

Local Pig, Kansas City, Mo., started as a somewhat “romantic” venture — an artisanal butcher and sausage shop tucked away in the city’s East Bottoms neighborhood

— Erica Shaffer

Kansas City is a big food town, but it also offers a buffet of classes for aspiring home cooks

Article about the Local Pig on the KCUR website

Cooking classes are a fun, affordable and enriching way to gain a new skill, eat well and even meet new people.

— Pete Dulin

Local Pig and Pigwich give Kansas City a specialty meat niche

Local Pig and Pigwich give Kansas City a specialty meat niche on Columbia Missourian

LOCAL PIG was interested in charcuterie long before it was cool.

— Allie Santini

In Kansas City, Local Pig partners with The Prospect for annual holiday meatball donation drive

Article about the Local Pig on the  Feast magazine website

For each box of two dozen Italian meatballs sold, the City Market-based butcher shop will donate two dozen meatballs to The Prospect

— Pete Dulin

East Bottom’s The Local Pig meat shop, Pigwich food truck are relocating

East Bottom’s The Local Pig meat shop, Pigwich food truck are relocating on the Kansas City Star

After six years in the East Bottoms, locally owned Pigwich and The Local Pig will relocate

— Joyce Smith

2016 Feast 50 Awards: Kansas City

2016 Feast 50 Awards: Kansas City on Feast

After six years in the East Bottoms, locally owned Pigwich and The Local Pig will relocate

— Feast

Kansas City: Snoots & Spleens

BIZARRE FOODS with Andrew Zimmern Season 7, Episode 5 Andrew heads to the American heartland to taste his way through meat-centric Kansas City.

— TRVL Channel

The Heartland Table Combines Culinary and Ceramic Artists

The Heartland Table Combines Culinary and Ceramic Artists on Feast

The beautiful clay cookware on display was as equally tempting as the creative dishes that six Kansas City chefs served in their new handmade clay pots.

— Jenny Vergara

Local Pig teams with Harvesters to provide meatballs for hungry

Local Pig teams with Harvesters to provide meatballs for hungry on the Kansas City Star

The Local Pig will offer its holiday meatballs for Harvesters again this year.

— Robert A. Cronkleton

The Local Pig - East Bottoms

The Local Pig - East Bottoms on Finding Kansas City

The name says it all. If you are looking for Kansas City’s best local butcher, look no further.

— Finding Kansas City

Bacon, and How It Came to Be

Bacon, and How It Came to Be on the New York Times

In Kansas City butcher shop teaches the butcher’s art.

— The New York Times

The Local Pig

The Local Pig on Thinking Bigger

The Local Pig wins over food lovers who crave locally produced meats.

— James Hart

Local Butchers in KC

Local Butchers in KC on KCUR | NPR

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker.

— Peggy Lowe, Matthew Long-Middleton

4 Hands, Local Pig Beer Pairing Dinner Marries Craft Beer and Inventive Dishes

4 Hands, Local Pig Beer Pairing Dinner Marries Craft Beer and Inventive Dishes on Feast

Rarely, if ever again, would guests experience this combination of carefully curated craft beer paired with inventive dishes.

— Pete Dulin

A Butcher Shop With A Garden

A Butcher Shop With A Garden on KCUR | NPR

On this Thursday's Central Standard, a look at a new kind of butcher shop in the East Bottoms, offering whole-pig butchering classes, homemade chutneys, and locally sourced meats.

— Central Standard

THE LOCAL PIG

THE LOCAL PIG on KC Loves

In a time where most of our food is bought with little knowledge where it comes from, Local Pig owner, Alex Pope wanted a place where people in Kansas City could learn more about the food they eat and where comes from.

— KC LOVES