Reserve a table in a cosy wood-panelled alcove, begin with a traditional Veneto "pasta e fagioli" soup, order a bottle of Amarone wine, then feast off the speciality roast meats served from a carvery trolley.
While being in the weeds is something that happens almost daily for a chef like Jorge, whose weeds story was about not having an essential staffer - a dishwasher - on a busy Friday night, for Nicole, it was about firsts - giving birth and filling a big soup order for Fresh Direct, all in the same week!
In the five years that he has been going to Langan's, according to one employee, he has been spotted eating just once — a bowl of onion soup, ordered, quite possibly, in error.
The beautiful white bean soup ordered by my companion tasted flat, with little truffle flavor; her roasted snapper was a little dry, as were the accompanying mussels, and while the vegetables adorning the couscous were perfectly cooked, the grain itself seemed soggy.
Two soups, ordered over two visits, were yin and yang in style but equal in their appeal and light spiciness.
But consider the fate of one of Queen Victoria's grandchildren, Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, scrabbling in the rubbish heap of an American prison camp in Bavaria in 1947, adding grass to his soup in order to bulk it up a bit.
The two make their way into the ruins of the city looking for chicken soup in order to cure Marcy's illness.
If you're one of those industrious people who make a big casserole or batch of soup in order to freeze portions for later meals, make sure you label everything with the name and date.
When you have a second, Mr. Fieri, would you see what happened to the black bean and roasted squash soup we ordered?
Seafood noodle soup, whether ordered as a first course or as a main course, had an excellent base of white misoshiru, only moderately salty.
In a previous conversation with The Huffington Post, "Seinfeld" writer Spike Feresten recalled how Jerry Seinfeld was berated and denied service when he actually tried to order soup from the real-life, so-called "Soup Nazi".
