5 Best Restaurants in Cody, Sheridan, and Northern Wyoming, Wyoming

The downtown branch of this excellent small-batch coffee roaster with a flagship café by the airport occupies a colorfully restored and decorated former gas station with a landscaped patio. In addition to well-crafted espresso drinks, both locations of Cody Coffee offer an extensive menu of sweet and savory crepes and triple-decker sandwiches.

This hip neighborhood bistro a block off Cody's main drag serves some of the most creative fare in town—consider the starter of pork belly sliders with a kicky habanero-lingonberry aioli, followed by cured duck leg confit served on a bed of mascarpone-polenta with a cherry gastrique. There's also a full bar serving first-rate craft cocktails, like the Smoky Buck with mezcal, wood-fired strawberries, and lime. On warm days you can dine on the streetside patio.

A short drive west of downtown, this high-ceilinged regional American restaurant with deep booth seats and big windows looking out toward the mountains draws guests but also quite a few locals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Regionally sourced meat and seafood are the stars here, including fall-off-the-bone short ribs and flavorful grilled Idaho trout.

Stainless-steel brewing vats are the centerpiece of the bar and dining area of this friendly downtown Cody brewpub that also has a large dining patio. The kitchen turns out tasty gastropub fare, from bacon-wrapped grilled shrimp to amber-beer-battered fish-and-chips, and the ales on tap include both house brews and plenty of visiting craft beers from around the country.