Range Coffee Roasters

Range Coffee Roasters sits on Laramie's downtown square in a shop that regulars and visitors both reach for the word big-city to describe. In Wyoming, that means something specific. The room is modern, bright, light-filled, the kind of space that reads upscale even when it is not trying to. Road-trippers driving up to the Grand Tetons make detours for it. Students settle in with laptops and the wifi holds. Baristas like Steph get named by name. The salted honey latte is the drink to order if you want a clear picture of what the bar does best. The blackberry lime espresso tonic is the seasonal showstopper, the kind of thing that earns the drive-through-Laramie crowd a story to tell when they get home. Matcha holds its own. French pastries cover the food side, with a strawberry pastry and good croissants in rotation. The patio takes dogs, which is the move on a summer afternoon when the downtown square is alive. One customer pushed back on what felt like snobbery at the counter, and that flag is worth carrying in. Anyone who would walk out over a slightly cool greeting from a hurried barista should know what they might be walking into. For most visitors, the coffee, the patio, and the downtown-square setting overpower the friction. The Tetons-bound road-tripper, the studying college student, the dog walker, and the writer with a notebook all get their own corner of the room. The right plan is to grab the salted honey latte, find a seat in the light, and watch the Laramie square move. If the blackberry lime espresso tonic is on the board, that is the second order, even if it sounds like more than your morning needs. The croissants pair with the matcha if you want something quieter than the seasonal showstopper. Range earns its reputation through specifics, the salted honey latte chief among them, and the downtown setting does the rest.