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What are your favorite extra-super-good places for soup?

I really like the pho at weekend brunch at Monsoon, and the ramen from Samurai, and pretty much any soup at Cafe Presse, but where else has really extra-super-good soup? Are any of these super-soupy places any good? Soup! Thanks!

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  • Chick_small
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    All of the soups I've had at Nettletown have been delicious. I've had a lentil with dill and two of their miso soups.

    Great question and I am looking forward to seeing other answers...I love soup, and getting a bum bowl is a buzzkill.

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  • Messy_hair_small
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    I'm a big fan of the Canton Wonton House on Weller in the International District.

    I always get the #9. It's a bowl of chicken soup with a perfect nest of Chinese egg noodles, pork and shrimp dumplings and hunks of brisket. With me yet?

    Whenever i feel a cold coming on I get in there as fast as I can.

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  • Guild_1024x768_small
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    Most of the dishes at In The Bowl are high up there. The Easy Day Noodle Soup is my go-to comfort food on cold winter nights.

    But honestly, soup is such an easy thing that I really like to just make it at home and experiment with some flavors.My new favorite home remedy - ginger parsnip soup with cashew cream.

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  • Cedar_photo_small
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    The soup at 74th Street Alehouse and Hilltop Ale House is always crazy good. Get whatever the soup of the day is. And it comes with good bread.

    I second the beef pho at Monkey Bridge and also have to give a shout out to the seafood pho at Green Leaf in the I.D.

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  • Nose_small
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    Here's what I've got, in top 6 form:

    1. Any soup Dustin Ronspies and Phil Lehman have ever made at Art of the Table. My favorites include a cherry-beet Borscht-style cold soup last summer and a celeriac puree with aleppo pepper oil last winter. Dustin travels a lot but also buys most foods locally so his soups are often the best reflection of both the current season as well as the ingredients and techniques he picks up along his journeys.

    2. Beer-cheese soup at Zayda Buddy's. The soup has a lot of beer and cheese flavor, but a third component--potato--rounds the two out, making it taste a little like eating potatos au gratin through a straw...with beer. They also top their with popcorn, as is apparently custom in the Midwest.

    3. Beef pho at Monkey Bridge. There's a lot of pho out there, and most of it is pretty good (although some needs a little more cock sauce than others..). The pho at Monkey Bridge stands out because of their cinnamon, cloves, & star anise-flavored broths (both beef and vegetarian are available). I like mine with sliced sirloin, tripe, and tendon. Plus, I've never gotten salmonella from their sprouts, which is a nice bonus in my book.

    4. Lobster bisque at Daniel's Broiler. When I'm feeling extra gluttonous (every day) and have the capital to burn (a couple times a year), I like to go to Daniel's and get this soup and a steak. Although it's not as rich as some other bisques, that's a plus for me, as I like to follow it up by stuffing my face with tender cow parts. The lobster flavor is very clean and lobstery and portions are big enough to share, if you're into that.

    5. Any soup at Joule. In a perfect world, I would be the adopted child of Chefs Seif and Rachel and they would feed me their spicy beef soup every time I'm sick or sad or, um, hungry. Their soups are mainly Korean-influenced (like the majority of their food) and so feature ingredients unexpected in a soup, such as kimchi and chunks of other pickled things. They most recently featured an apple bisque with pickled tomatillo and red curry, which sounds incredible, and a version of their spicy beef soup with daikon and creme fraiche.

    I think my next favorite soup will be the Korean Hangover soup they're serving at Revel, which is made with black pudding (blood sausage made in house). It's available on their weekend brunch menu and looks incredible.

    6. Tortilla soup with chicken at Señor Moose. As I mentioned in a previous post, this soup cures things like nothing else does. It's slightly spicy (made more so when I dump everything spicy on the table into it) and has avocado and plenty of crunchy tortilla bits. It's also ginormous and can be eaten for two meals.

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    Believe it or not, the Salvadoran restaurant on Broadway, Guanaco's, serves a delicious chicken soup and beef soup. They're so good.

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  • Sheri_tattoo_small_small
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    I always love whatever the Hopvine is serving, their soups are satisfying and something different, like corn chowder full of fennel and fresh dill.

    I also could pretty much live on the sweet & sour soup at 7 Star Pepper, I'm starting to salivate thinking about it now.

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  • Photo_on_2011-05-23_at_16
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    Cafe Presse.

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    Without a doubt, Infinite Soups in Tacoma is the center of the soup universe.

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  • Habanero_closeup_edit2_small
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    The vegan pumpkin soup at the Whole Foods deli is my favorite soup ever. Chaco Canyon is serving an awesome black bean chili this time of year...but it's not chili, it's soup.

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  • N4201677_8629_small
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    The garlic soup at Hopvine makes me so happy--like french onion, with the toast and cheesy goodness on top, but garlic-y and creamy and just amazing. Actually, all the soups at Hopvine are pretty freaking amazing.

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    People's Republic on capitol hill. They have a super good grilled cheese and tomato

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  • Greenman5_small
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    Vegan beer cheese soup at Highline bar on Broadway is addictive. Really freaking good.

    The vegetarian noodle soup at Pho Cyclo and White Center Pho are my favorite in town!

    Split pea soup at Georgetown Liquor Company is pretty good, also.

    The borscht at the Piroshky place that used to be on Broadway was my favorite, too. I miss that place! :(

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    Canterbury on 15th. They do all the soups from scratch, cheap as hell too.
    Plus it's a dive bar so that's a plus.

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    If you have an afternoon free you should try your local farmer's market. The hot food vendors generally have a couple of soups to choose from & they usually use ingrediants from the market when possible. Ask other vendors who they recomend, they shouldn't steer you wrong.

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  • Michiko_small
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    Some of my favorite soups in town:

    1. Kakiage Udon (or soba depending on my mood) at Tsukushinbo. It's a simple bowl of udon and soup topped with a tempura fried birdsnest of various vegetables, shrimp, surimi, etc. The kakiage is great, but it's the broth that wins. It's a family restaurant where the mom is the cook. Her dashi sooo delicious, I could drink a whole bowl of it like tea. Their miso soup kicks butt too.

    2. Buta kimchi nabe at Maekawa bar. It's a Japanese twist on a korean dish, so it's lighter and less spicy. It is served in a hot iron pot with pork, fishcakes, tofu, veggies, mild kimchi, and miso.

    3. Miso hot pot at Korean Tofu House in the university district. More hearty, spicier and flavorful than the japanese verion before, this hotpot contains beef, clams, potatoes, zucchini, kimchi, tofu and miso. So comfy.

    4. Any soon doo boo at Hosoonyi in Edmonds. Boiling hot, spicy tofu hot pot with a raw egg cracked into it at your table is delicious.

    5. Tom Kha Gai at Viengthong. There are so many thai restaurants in Seattle, but the best thom kha is at a Laotian restaurant. Extra spicy and served in a really cool metal dish. And their whole fried fish is amazing too.

    6. Sweet corn soup at Poppy. Simple, sweet and silky, it was like drinking liquid spring corn. I love corn soup and I wish it was corn season all year round.

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  • Crystalcanyon_small
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    Starlight on the Oasis in the UD (connected to Grand Illusion) has a great vegan black bean chilli soup.

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  • Flaming_arrow_small
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    I love a particular soup (guay tiaw nah nom tok) at The Spice Room in Columbia City. It's a rich beef stock with rice noodles and beef....which makes it sound like good pho, which it isn't. The stock involves pork blood, which they won't tell you unless you demand to know why their stock is so rich.

    I also love the sambar soup from Chilie's in the U District. A bowl of it seems to come with every other dish on the menu; not sure if you can get a bigger bowl all by itself, but it involves veggies, tamarind, mustard seeds and lentils.

    For fancy soup, I have never had a less than great bowl of soup from Tilth. And when I want expensive soup with a cheese blanket, I love the French onion at the Met.

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  • Tofu_oyako_small
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    Sambar/Le Gourmand in Ballard is my personal favorite place for soup. Le Gourmand might be a bit fancy to stop in just for soup, but Sambar is perfect for doing just that (and is really reasonably priced for how great it is).

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  • Elva_close_up_small
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    It's a looooooong way from Seattle but near where my mom lives so we go here often. There are always two kinds of soup on offer and they are never anything less than sublime.

    You can get a bowl of soup but better still, order the full meal (stuffed cabbage, chicken paprika, etc) and it will come with soup (or salad) and you'll end up taking plenty of leftovers home, all cooked with love by your temporary Hungarian grandmama:

    Budapest Bistro
    12900 Mukilteo Speedway
    Lynnwood, WA 98037
    Open T-Su, 9am-9pm
    (425) 513-9846

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  • Hey_girl_hey_small
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    I am always happy with the quality of the soups at the Nordstrom Grill at the downtown flagship store. They always have a seafood bisque on the menu which is awesome and then rotating daily soups. I especially enjoy the chicken pot-pie, and manhattan clam chowder w/albacore. I have also have a cream of asparagus there that was very good.

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  • Kungpow_02_small
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    Aloha Ramen on Greenwood is the best ramen I have ever had in Washington. They have a really good selection, my favorite is the miso ramen with japanese curry on top. You get a huge bowl for 8 or 9 bucks, it's almost too much but it's so damn good you can't stop eating!

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