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- Eat, Drink and Tour Charlotte’s Culinary Scene
- May: 21 concerts, comedy shows and special events happening in Charlotte this month
- Bites on Seventh event to celebrate Black-owned food businesses
- New European-Inspired Restaurant to Replace Former Stanley Drug Store
- Culinary Dropout: New South end restaurant with comfort meals, drinks and live music

QCity Metro exists to provide news and information relevant to Charlotte’s Black communities. Culinary Dropout’s crowd favorites are designated on the menu with two red star symbols. A new restaurant opened this week in South End, and the QCity Metro team stopped by to try it out.
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Eat, Drink and Tour Charlotte’s Culinary Scene
Reservations are now available on OpenTable. Lunch and dinner will be served daily along with a killer weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday. Culinary Dropout will be open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. Enter the code you received via email to sign in, or sign in using a password. Get a code sent to your email to sign in, or sign in using a password.
May: 21 concerts, comedy shows and special events happening in Charlotte this month
Regularly sold out, the event features about seven courses (each from a different chef) with drink pairings for each. Watch for event announcements on their website or Facebook page. Looking for an over-the-top culinary experience? Plan your next night out around these popular dining excursions. There’s a reason Food & Wine, Thrillist, Eater and OpenTable consistently feature Charlotte in their “best of” roundups.
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During dinner, the restaurant is relatively dimly lit and feels intimate — perfect for a small-group dinner or date night. Other seating options, like the bar, have views of the live band area. The QCity team visited the restaurant for dinner one day and brunch on another; here’s what we thought. Dine around town with Charlotte's top tour groups. — Known for classic meals done right, Culinary Dropout is opening Wednesday, October 11 on the ground floor in the East Tower of Vantage South End at 1120 S. Tryon St. for dine-in, in-store and curbside pick up, and delivery.
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Home to culinary incubators like Johnson & Wales University, the Queen City draws innovative chefs who, inspired by their own backgrounds, rethink local and regional delicacies. Whether you’re in town for the weekend or the rare Charlotte native, these local tours will help you discover (and rediscover) our thriving culinary scene. There will be live local music on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays during football season. After football season, live music will be held Thursday- Sunday. The restaurant was about half full, but our server visited us throughout the evening to make sure we had what we needed. The server also recommended cocktails at our request and shared popular items on the menu.
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Beth covers arts, travel and tourism as the former copywriter/editor at the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority and previously as an editor for Atlanta magazine and its Southeastern travel publication, Southbound. She has also written for Charlotte magazine and Charlotte Wedding. Find her loitering in bookstores, seeking out ice cream recommendations or lamenting Mizzou’s latest football flops. From what's trending to local restaurants, events and entertainment, you'll find it all on this show. Locals can look forward to North Carolina brews on tap such as Sugar Creek Brewing’s Big ‘O’ Blood Orange IPA. We also tried a dessert, baked monkey bread with ice cream.
Although stops vary for these excursions, they always feature bucket-list Charlotte restaurants, so you’ll get a taste of daily life in the QC. Ft. design merges gastronomic creativity and the music scene with rockstar decor throughout and an indoor stage for live shows. Serving classic comfort food, Culinary Dropout’s menu brings items like house made Soft Pretzels, Provolone Fondue, Fried Chicken drizzled in honey, and 36-hour Slow-Roasted Pork Ribs covered with smoked bacon & jalapeño bbq sauce. It has the potential to become a local favorite in South End because of the service, the added live music and the restaurant’s overall ambiance. Following all the hot new restaurants on Instagram?
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The restaurant’s look is modern and has lots of seating options, from high tables and bar seating to individual low tables and booths. There’s also a private dining room and a spacious back room with extra seating. Some seating, especially those near the entrance, have views of the kitchen.
Tryon Street, serves “classic meals done right.” It offers food, drinks and live music. The South End location marks the restaurant’s first location in North Carolina. Satisfy your appetite for the arts while enjoying small plate and drinking pairings at the Mint Museum Uptown.
The monkey bread was served hot and complimented the vanilla ice cream well. The dessert’s size was shareable for three or four people. One of the favorites, Two to Mango, is a cocktail served with a full-sized White Claw on the side.
The drink is made with vodka, orange, pineapple, guava and mango, then topped with mango White Claw. There’s live music on Friday and Saturday nights, and based on our visit, it definitely added to the relaxed, intimate atmosphere. Book a cooking class with local culinary celebrity Alyssa Wilen, whose classes dig into how to create dishes for Italian, Paleo, Tex-Mex, game day and more varieties. Her classes are a great date night option couples out on the town.