CJ Day
Staff Writer
The new semester brings new dining options in Laramie, ranging from traditional bar fare to more unique cuisine.
Three new restaurants have opened since the beginning of last semester – Italian restaurant Palermo’s, Accomplice Mycro-Pub[1] , which is a spinoff of a popular Cheyenne restaurant and Cask 307, a wine bar.
Palermo’s opened in Oct. 2019 and serves traditional Italian food, a type of cuisine which was hard to get in Laramie before they opened. The restaurant has done a brisk trade since it opened, and there were few empty tables when the BI staff stopped by.
“It’s a sort of food that you can’t get anywhere else,” said Mark Wells, a Laramie resident who has become, in his words, “a bit of a regular” at Palermo’s since its opening. “It tastes so authentic, it’s like being in Italy.”
Students have criticized Palermo’s for its high prices, though.
“It’s good, but it’s not the kind of place you want to go to all the time,” said Brian Hesse, a student who has dined at the restaurant. “Its prices aren’t really student-friendly.”
Just down the block from Palermo’s, Accomplice Beer Company has opened a new location in the former Grand Ave. Pizza building. The company already has a popular brewery in Cheyenne, and its beer can be found on tap in many Laramie bars. The new location, which styles itself as a “mycro-pub”, serves the drinks that Accomplice is known for, and the usual bar fare like burgers and wings.
Accomplice is not the only new place for those that like to drink. Cask 307 is a wine bar that opened in November. While it also offers light snacks like charcuterie plates and tapas, the wine is the highlight here – they offer more than 20 varieties of it, from a $25 moscato to $300 bottles of champagne.
While Laramie may not have the culinary depth that larger cities in the area like Fort Collins or Cheyenne have, it has enough variety to satisfy any college gourmand.
