There’s a new outdoor dining option in downtown Lafayette. Uncle Bob’s Roundup offers the stuff of plein air picnic dreams — covered tables, fans, bathrooms and a rotating cast of food trucks offering everything from sweet treats to ‘Casian’ specialties.
On Saturday, April 5, the food truck park’s grand opening event featured food from Shakebacks, Ragin Casians Crossroads Cuisine, Maple Street Milkshake Bar, Ki Yodi’s Snowballs and more local food trucks. Yard games and live music by The Nouveau String Band entertained customers, and it was a beautiful day of activity for a section of downtown that was just an empty lot, only a few months ago.
Lafayette architect Dillon Van Way owns Uncle Bob’s Roundup food truck park at 144 E. Cypress St., Lafayette — and the DMS Mail Management building next door, which he purchased in 2021 and converted to apartments. That development project paved the way for the Roundup, which sits on a formerly adjudicated lot that Van Way started taking care of in the process of turning DMS Mail Management into the Cypress Flats…