Took my wife to the Culinary Dropout (CD) for our date night. We had heard a lot about this place since it took over the spot where the Pink Taco (Mexican food yeah right) use to be. We started out with Provolone Fondue and pretzel bread. We also ordered some of their hard to find premium meat (Jamon Iberico). The fondue was very mild in taste which was good but nothing that would stand out. I did wrap the pretzel bread with the Iberico which was a good combo.
For a main course I had the ribs and my wife had the shrimp po boy. The ribs were good but were not smoked, and they are also boiled before they are cooked. If you like ribs that are not traditionally prepared (smoked/bbq) then you should like these because they do have great pork flavor. The po boy was also good. It had great flavor overall but you could not taste the shrimp in it. The other flavors in the sandwich were just to overpowering. I think if CD marinated the shrimp and grilled them instead of frying them it would have held up better to the other flavors.
Service was good but not exceptional.
Overall CD is a good restaurant but not special in a sea of trendy bar/restaurants. It is the typical Fox project that has good food but nothing that would be classified as unforgettable. Would I go back if a friend had not tried the place yet, yes but I would not go back for a second time with my wife nor would it be a place I would suggest to people as a can't miss.