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Kansas City Current announces Local Pig as next restaurant partner in CPKC Stadium
We are incredibly excited to be a part of the culinary hospitality at CPKC Stadium.
Kansas City’s Cowtown legacy lives on in these great butcher shops and meat markets
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.
The Evolution of Local Pig
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.
Kansas City is a big food town, but it also offers a buffet of classes for aspiring home cooks
Cooking classes are a fun, affordable and enriching way to gain a new skill, eat well and even meet new people.
Local Pig and Pigwich give Kansas City a specialty meat niche
LOCAL PIG was interested in charcuterie long before it was cool.
In Kansas City, Local Pig partners with The Prospect for annual holiday meatball donation drive
For each box of two dozen Italian meatballs sold, the City Market-based butcher shop will donate two dozen meatballs to The Prospect.
East Bottom’s The Local Pig meat shop, Pigwich food truck are relocating
After six years in the East Bottoms, locally owned Pigwich and The Local Pig will relocate.
2016 Feast 50 Awards Kansas City
After six years in the East Bottoms, locally owned Pigwich and The Local Pig will relocate.
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.
The Heartland Table Combines Culinary and Ceramic Artists
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.
Local Pig teams with Harvesters to provide meatballs for hungry
The Local Pig will offer its holiday meatballs for Harvesters again this year.
The Local Pig - East Bottoms
The name says it all. If you are looking for Kansas City’s best local butcher, look no further.
Bacon, and How It Came to Be
In Kansas City butcher shop teaches the butcher’s art.
The Local Pig
The Local Pig wins over food lovers who crave locally produced meats.
Local Butchers in KC
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker.
4 Hands, Local Pig Beer Pairing Dinner Marries Craft Beer and Inventive Dishes
Rarely, if ever again, would guests experience this combination of carefully curated craft beer paired with inventive dishes.
A Butcher Shop With A Garden
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.
KC LOVES The Local Pig
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.