Not much food for your money, but the steak was good. Â Do you like mashed potatoes with your steak? Â We prefer baked, but that was not on the menu. Â The salad was extremely small--about 1/2 cup of greens! Â No bread or crackers!! Â Strange, Â way undercooked, veggies on plate with steak. Â I've never continued to be hungry before after leaving a steakhouse. Â We really wanted to like this place, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Â Keep trying!!
Review Source:While the atmosphere on the "billiard a" side left something to be desired, the food was quite enjoyable. Service was both attentive and friendly. I had a ribeye, that was rubbed with coffee and spices, and the better half had a roasted half chicken. The captain's wine list had a couple of decent offerings and the choco almond tort with vanilla ice cream was nice. Bottom line, other than a confused decor, it was a delightful meal in Laramie.
Review Source:I was in the mood for a steak tonight and the hotel desk clerk suggested Altitude. Â I was definitely not disappointed. Â I ordered the Ribeye and it was among the best I've ever had. Â It was rubbed with roasted paprika and coffee and it was really delicious. Â The service was very good too.
Review Source:I am disappointed. Â I have been in Laramie for years. Â I've been to Altitude several times, but I had not been in over a year. Â When I use to go, it was amazing every time. Â Man, times have changed.
First, let me place a disclaimer. Â My friends and I came to Altitudes after attempting to brave the pass between Laramie and Cheyenne so we could go to the Texas Road House. Â We had turned back half way due to weather conditions. Â This means we were tired and not in the best of moods.
That being said, matters were not improved upon at Altitudes. Â It is said - Its now how you start, its how you finish. Â Please remember this. Â Service was mediocre at best. Â Drink refills were slow, and since we arrived an hour before closing, things were slow. Â This means that the wait staff were busy with side work, rather than customers. Â The worst mistake was bringing out my beer when I asked for it to come out with the meal. Â It came out fifteen minutes before the burger had arrived. Â This means it was piss warm before I got to eat.
Food was a joke at those prices.  My burger was decent, though not mind blowing.  The combination of pico on top of the cheese made it a mess to eat.  My girlfriend ordered a crab cake and it was utterly bland and clearly frozen.  The worse was the desert.  It was pre-made cookies with cheap ice cream in between.  For a restaurant that attempts to be one of the fine dinning experiences, you must think your customers to be idiots not to recognize the difference between made fresh and in house  vs pre-made and frozen.  It is a complete and utter insult.
The only reason I did not get up and demand something frest, did not get into someone's face and ask for a refund was because I was on a date. Â I expect better next time, and if I do not get it, then I will send it back over and over and over until someone gets a clue.
As a homebrewer and a foodie, I almost always come to Altitude when I visit Laramie from Ft. Collins, CO. Â I am always eager to find out what's new on tap and from their menu.
As an UW alumni, I've been to this establishment countless times and it truly is one of Laramie's best restaurants. Â They certainly do very well with their food and their beer clearly shows the brewer's passion and creativity. Â While I would personally like to see some more adventurous beer styles and variations of beers within the traditional American ale lineup, they can hold their own in terms of quality for what they do brew. Â From my experience, however, Wyoming in general is not a place where a large demographic of adventurous palates exist. Â So, to their credit, they brew what sells the most which would most likely be the basic styles of Pale Ale, Wheat, Brown Ale, Amber Ale, and a Stout. Â IMHO, if you brew it - people will drink it - so long it is thoughtfully crafted and done with the skill of a master chef. Â With their pilot system they use, they should be able to appease beer geeks like me anytime I go.
They get busy and sometimes it's a wait for a table, but there are a lot of tables. Â This only goes to show how popular they are (or how few good selections there are in Laramie). Â I usually get greeted and served by someone with a pleasant attitude and that genuinely appears to have an interest in my customer experience. Â The food comes out in good time and is usually up to foodie standards. Â My only criticism is that a lot of the food is overpriced, which is the only reason why they don't get the 5th star in this review.
I would always recommend this place to anyone and I hope for many more successful years for their business. Â Cheers!
After a long day of skiing at Snowy Range, I made it back to Laramie for an overnight stay and needed suggestions for dinner last night.
So on a strong suggestion it was decided to head over to Altitude Chophouse and Brewery. Excellent suggestion!
They brew 13 beers here to start, a great list of wines and a full bar. The food is excellent. It's as close to fine dining in as you will find in Laramie, but don't the term fine dining scare you, they have something for everyone, from burgers and fish and chips, pizza, steaks, sirloins, pastas and seafood. No need to worry about any certain dress code here, remember this is Laramie not New York City. Casual is fine.
Now here's my suggestion, try the Chicken Saltimbocca, a pan seared chicken breast topped with prosciutto, capers, sage and a lemon white wine sauce, trust me it is worth every bite! It's served with sauteed spinach and a couple of asiago polenta cakes. Throw in a Tumblewheat beer and the combination is nothing short of perfection.
The wait staff were excellent. They were attentive and not overbearing and very engaging.
An establishment doesn't last as long as this one has without consistently doing something right. Great service, excellent food and an enormous commitment to the local community.
I dont get up to Wyoming often, but whenever I'm in Laramie, you can bet I'm coming here every time.
Word of advice get there early, as they fill up fast on Saturday nights. There is a gluten free menu too.
Laramie is not known for its fine cuisine. Â Altitude managed to exceed my expectation this time. Â We had a group of 11, almost half of whom were teenagers, and all of us arrived at different times. Â The staff deserves 5+ stars, as they were very accommodating and friendly. Â
I had the open-faced prime rib sandwich special, which was pretty good. Â The fries were pre-made/frozen, but it's Laramie, I'm not expecting much. Â I was really enamored with the beers. Â Well-crafted, great variety. Â My husband had the pizza special, and the crust was extraordinary. Â It was also topped generously. Â We had to have dessert, most of the party had the cheesecake, which they nearly licked off the plates. Â My dad and i shared the sugar cookie ice cream sandwich, and while the cookie was pretty hard, it had a great flavor all around. Â
The rest of the party, who are not dining-divas and as picky as I am, loved every moment, that along with the beer and service, merits 4 stars.
We ate here on a Saturday night and had to wait about 30-40 min for a table. The beer selection was good and the wine was reasonably priced by the glass. The food was also good. We split an order of the peperjack cheese sticks for our appetizer. It was a generous portion for such a rich dish and we had a hard time finishing it, but they were freshly cooked and very tasty (especially with the accompanying ranch dipping sauce). Our service was slow, but the place was packed.
Review Source:We had these folks serve as caterers at my daughter's wedding. Â They did a great job! Â Even helped me pass out champagne and sparkling cider that WE had provided for the toast. Â Had a LOT of compliments on the meal provided-green salad, pulled pork sandwiches, beef brisket, cowboy beans and a fruit bowl. Â There was nothing whatsoever for me to worry about with them as caterers! Â They cleaned up, left some leftovers in the fridge with a note on what we needed to return the following day (coffee and lemonade containers). Â It was about $18/person including gratuity and travel-30 miles one way to our venue-so not too bad. Â All in all great service and great food!
Review Source:The beer quality is inconsistent and this applies to the same type of beer throughout the year. I expect better seeing how it is located in a region known for awesome breweries. I know it is difficult to produce the same taste throughout the year, but please try and brew good beer. The food is good for being located in a food desert, which doesn't say much. I recommend Crow Bar.
Review Source:Very good. Â Had the Chicken Fried Steak in 2003, and returned the other day (2012). Â They have some old favorites well-prepared as well as some unusual entries on the menu. Â Beer is good, imaginative. Â Would probably give this place 4.5 stars if I could, especially since I find lots of Yelpers give too many stars!
Review Source:I was here with some friends. Â It took about 30 mins to be seated, but that's fine--it's Saturday night.
The appetizer, spinach artichoke dip, was perfectly creamy, warm, crunchy and sharable.
We shared a pizza. Â Unfortunately, it was just bland. Â not a whole lot of dimension to the flavor. Â There were tomato slices on the pizza that were slimy and didn't add any desirable flavor to the pie.
Desert was a disaster. Â We ordered fried cheesecake. Â Cheesecake should never be served warm. Â It brings out a mealy texture. Â It was wrapped in a crust that was hard like a fortune cookie--I couldn't cut it with my fork. Â I ended up squirting the cheesecake out of this fortune cookie tube like toothpaste. Â So i have slimy, mealy cheesecake filling, Â a crunchy wafer a delicious scoop of vanilla bean ice cream, all drizzled with caramel. Â Very disjointed. Â Very bizzare. Â I do not recommend it.
This restaurant, on the other hand, is the go to place for hand-crafted beers of all kinds! Â Altitude brews many delicious beers and they're quite a treat.
One of the better sit down eating places in town for sure. I ordered the Solar Wit beer which was good along with a noodle bowl with chicken. I was fairly full but ordered a small flourless chocolate mini cake which also was a score.
This place brings in a sports crowd so if there is a game going on somewhere expect lots of whooping and hollering at the TV. Fairly fast service and friendly.
Five stars for the beer (great selection, growlers, and impressive seasonal brews), but only three stars for the food - it's very average.
My coworker and I were in three out of the five days we were in Laramie. We both loved our food the first night (I got the herb roasted chicken (pictured), and he got the prime rib). The next day at lunch, he loved his special-of-the-day burger, I left quite a bit of mine (don't remember what it was called... had avocado and pico) on the plate. On our last night there, he loved his baked mac and cheese - my steak special (also pictured) was WAY overcooked (ordered medium rare, came out tough, close to well done. Ick.
The service was great the first couple days we were there, but only average on the last night (different guy).
Anyway, I'd definitely go back if I end up back in Laramie - I just wouldn't pay $20 for the steak special.
The cuisine featured at Altitude Chophouse is decent  though not necessarily amazing, (as I had a dish of Fetuccini Alfredo it was ok). The beer however is good as I drank a Chili Beer that Altitude brews. It was good. The interior of Altitude's is pleasing. Essentially Altitude is decent. Good for beer and decent for food.
Review Source:Mediocre service was left in waiting are while 2 other walk in parties were seated before me then I was seated in the back fourth in and around a bunch of children.  Order a med well prime rib got a med rare server noticed 3/4 of the way throughout meal had mgr speak with me was offered another declined. Food tasted good.  Service adequate.  Found the hostess to be bubble headed blonde and bubble butted also with braces.  Mgmnt needs to get a clue for gods sake this is a college town with a bevy of attractive vivacious women hire one of them period and get a cook that Knos something other  than med rare.  Priced appropriately but to expensive for the level of service provided.
Review Source:Went for lunch on my birthday. Took 30-45 minutes to get drinks. Food was disgusting, I ordered the steak and it tasted like charcoal, my husband ordered the chicken-fried steak that tasted like someone had dipped it in salt but didn't put any other spices on it.
Left & went to Quiznos. Will never, EVER go back.
Horrible, horrible, horrible. So sad because I was so excited to try it.
Chili beer, y'all!
Ok, the chili beer wasn't even that good, but it's freakin' chili beer! I had to try it. I would have liked it to be a little bit spicier, but hey, maybe they can't handle the heat up in Wyo.
All the food was very delicious, and I do like a place that brews their own beer. They have lots of fish options, which surprised me as the state is pretty damn landlocked, but I'm not complaining. Though the digs don't look like much from the outside, the food and beer selection was very impressive.
I had a great first experience at Altitude. Â Restaurant was very busy, visited on a Friday evening during the Farmer's Market, but we had a reservation, so no wait. Â The atmosphere was good- there were lots of people at the bar waiting for a table, so the dining room was just a little noisy.
I can't speak much for the quality of beer- I had a pint of the Tumblewheat and thought it was pretty good. Â I will definitely be returning for some $10 growler fills.
Our food was really great too- ordered specials hangar steak and prime rib and ribeye. Â The ribeye was exceptional- seasoned wonderfully. Â Hangar steak was judged a little spicy and the prime rib seemed to be enjoyed. Â Generous portion sizes, though we all managed to finish our plates!
Service was good, though it was apparent that the server did not want us to linger after we finished, I guess understandably as there were still people waiting for tables when we left.
If you expect marginal or better service DO NOT waste your time. I recently met a friend for lunch on a seemingly slow day. We walked out 10 minutes later after our server hadn't even come by to say hello or offer us water. I went to college in Laramie and can testify to the slim pickings on dining choices in town - this is probably why Altitude can get away with this and continues to stay in business.
In the last five years the menu has changed minimally and the service almost always is horrible. Also, to my best recollection I have walked out on AT LEAST four other occasions because of the scenario I described above when I was going to school.
Altitude's owners have yet to figure out that when one dines out they want to be taken care of, not treated like inconvenience. I've tried to give this place a chance but the only things you can consistently count on are crummy service and mediocre food. The reviews indicate a wildly polarized dining experience from excellent to poor...I wouldn't recommend Altitude for that reason.
The food was pretty good. It wasn't great, but it was alright. Very meat heavy though, so if you like veggies you might want to just cook at home or go somewhere else.
The real problem was the service. It was terrible. They sat us in the back of the restaurant even though the place was fairly empty when we went in. I suspect that it was because we had a child with us. The only reason I suspect this is because the back area had nothing but groups with kids or the elderly while the younger groups or those without kids were seated in the front. Then our server waited for a good ten minutes to show up. When he did he barely stayed long enough to take our drink orders. This continued the whole visit with him barely staying long enough to take an order and when he brought them he just dropped the food off and left. He never visited except when our plates were empty and to bring the bill.
I am not sure if this level of service is normal for Laramie or Wyoming, but I am very glad that I live in Denver where they actually care about customer service. The only reason it got a whole two stars was the food quality which wasn't bad.
For what it's worth, probably one of the best restaurants in Laramie. Always crowded as a result and you're going to wait to get in there unless you have a reservation or get lucky. I don't drink beer, so I'd be hard pressed to comment on it, but I've never heard a complaint from anyone I've ever been there with.
All in all, a good place to take visitors to town if you're not able to get away and take them to Cheyenne or Ft. Collins. The menu is a bit limited and while it's not bad food, it's overpriced for what it is. But it works for what it is.
Had an ok experience. Our server got busy before we got our food so things went downhill. We ordered our steaks medium rare and they came out tough and closer to well done. I tried to order another drink but was unable to get our servers attention. Â Our salads were good and she was nice to offer us seperate checks for our table.
Overall not impressed
Laramie's best brewpub. Their beers are among the best that are brewed in all of Wyoming and some of them can give the Fort Collins brews a run for their money. They have a few regular beers they keep around all year, but the real draw is their seasonals and single batch brews. It's the only place I've encountered a jalepeno beer and the 10% ABV wheat brew they had last summer was delicious (more like wheat wine). It's about the right time of year for their pumpkin ale, which is usuallly worth it.
Given that, the food and service are often hit-and-miss. This usually depends on how busy they are (it gets very crowded on the weekends), although I've had some pretty non-memorable meals here when they weren't busy. The burgers are fine and the steak is nothing to sneeze at, but any pretense of this place being gourmet should be ignored.
Altitude Chophouse was far more decent than I expected to find in Laramie. Â I ordered the special halibut of the night that came with an orange glaze and wild rice, really good, not to fishy, a little buttery. The boy ordered a prime rib that was amazingly well done. I had to have a bit, even though I don't really eat the cow. The only thing I wouldn't order again would be the bacon wrapped scallops, but that was iffy in the middle of WY anyway. Lastly, they make their own beer that I thought was really good!
Review Source:I can barely remember what I ate in here, because it was so hot and stuffy, there was no air conditioning and all of the loud fans blowing hot air all over the place were making me all impatient and grouchy.
The threat of pork poisoning lurked a bit in the undercooked swine around a bacon wrapped scallop appetizer  They had generous sample sizes of their beers for only $1.25, but honestly their beer, like all other beers, tasted a little bit like pee pee to me, but I keep trying to develop a taste for that stuff - I think people who like beer would like them a lot - the best one was yellowy and served with a lemon.  A super dark and frothy topped one tasted like chocolate's evil twin. The service was slow, casual and friendly enough. Â
So, maybe in the heat country fried steak would seem like a bad choice, but it was nighttime already, I hadn't eaten aaaaaalllll day and I had a another chance to mark an addition to my Great Plains Country Fried Steak Challenge. Theirs was a fancified presentation, with the steak kind of asymmetrically perched upon a mound of mashed potatoes. It was good - very crunchy coating, almost like if it had been hard baked with corn flakes in it. The potatoes were more of the thicker, smashed type instead of the whipped, fluffy kind, but they were okay.
I did especially love the lay out of their kid's menu. Lots and lots of choices arranged where you pick an entree, then pick a side and a drink, etc, all for about $3. Â The choices accommodated crunchy parents with juice, milk and veggies and Springer parents with fries and soda, and since sometimes I'm one and sometimes I'm a bit more of the other, I really appreciated having the (rare) options.
If they could cook the bacon and turn on the air I'd give them another try, especially since they were the only thing open.
For a college town, Laramie has a serious lack of quality original restaurants, and Altitude has not only exceptional food, but it's very own line of top notch craft beers. Â Laramie's lack of restaurant options is never more apparent than on Friday and Saturday nights during college football season, when you can wait more than an hour for a table. Â In the end, it's worth the wait, since your other alternative is the Village Inn.
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