Where to Get a Bowl of Soup, Stew, Bisque, and Chili in Greater Boston

Perhaps the best reason why it’s cold for half the year in New England is that there’s a longer window to comfortably eat warm bowls of soup.

While making one at home is just as fun (and more fiscally responsible), sometimes a rainy, cold day in Boston calls for grabbing your favorite soup to go.

And here’s the great thing about soup: it has so much variety, from stews to bisques and broths.

Even New England has its own soup, although it is widely accessible and popular throughout the country. And Boston’s oldest continuously operating restaurant undoubtedly serves a favorite version of the soup to locals and visitors alike.

Joseph Milano, president of Union Oyster House and honorary consul general to Thailand, said the restaurant sells 10,000 gallons of clam chowder a year.

“We don’t have any secret ingredients in our ‘Chowdah,’” Milano said. “One intangible ingredient that stands out is the consumption of our world-famous chowder in the historic ambiance of the restaurant. »

What there aren’t many are restaurants offering soups, which may be why New England Soup Factory has always been a favorite among our readers.

Owner and founder Marjorie Druker said her team makes 10 soups every day at their Newton restaurant. Favorites include chicken noodle soup and matzo ball soup because of its “healing goals,” Druker said in an email.

“Soup is the perfect meal,” Druker said. “It’s balanced, eating with a spoon, it chases away the winter cold, [and] it’s a blanket for your mouth and throat that feels good and tastes even better.

Boston.com asked our readers to recommend their favorite chowder restaurants so we could put them on a map, and unsurprisingly, we were given plenty of clam chowder options. But our editorial staff also wanted to share their choices, including ramen, pho and lentil soups. These choices are labeled below as “Boston.com Recommended” and you can find some soup options on the menu.

It’s also important to note that there can be debates about what constitutes soup. We could argue about the differences between soup, stews, and all the other items below, but what if it was served hot, mostly liquid, usually in a bowl, and you sometimes made a slurping noise while eating it , she was on the list.

Our map includes 123 restaurants where you can grab a bowl of hot soup (or broth, stew, chili, bisque, chowder, ramen, pho, etc.) to get you through these cold months.

Where to find soup near you in Greater Boston

List of Greater Boston Soups

• Alice’s tangerine taste: 37 Pond Street, Sharon
• Amphitheaters: 80 W. Broadway, South Boston
• Bar Mezzana: 360 Harrison Avenue, South End
• Boston sailmaker: 80 Atlantic Avenue, downtown
• Cabot’s: 743 Washington Street, Newton
• Coffee Poland: 611 Dorchester Avenue, South Boston
• Charlie’s Sandwich Shop: 429 Columbus Avenue, South End
• Clover Food Lab (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• DoughBoy Donuts and deli meats: 220 Dorchester Avenue, South Boston
• Fornax bread: 27 Corinth Street, Roslindale
• Galway House: 710 Center Street, Jamaica Plain
• Ganko Ittetsu (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Gene’s Chinese Flatbread Coffee: Multiple locations
• Happy Lamb Hot Pot (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Hokkaido Ramen Santouka (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Hook + Line: 10 Fan Pier Boulevard, seaport
• The Lambert market: 140 Tremont Street, downtown
• Le’s Vietnamese Restaurant (recommended by Boston.com): 36 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
• Legal seafood: Multiple locations
• Life Alive Organic Coffee: Multiple locations
• Mecha Noodle Bar (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• New England Soup Factory (Boston.com recommended): 244 Needham Street, Newton
• Picture 88: 1270 Westford Street, Lowell
• Pho Basil (Boston.com recommended): 177 Massachusetts Avenue, Fenway-Kenmore
• Pho Hoa: 1370 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester
• Pho Le Restaurant: 1356 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester
• Pho Pasteur: Multiple locations
• Pho So 1 (Boston.com recommended): 1625 Hancock Street, Quincy
• Pikaichi (Boston.com recommended): 123 Boston Avenue, Medford
• Sip Café (Boston.com recommended): 0 Place de la Poste, City Center
• Smith and Wollensky: Multiple locations
• Sugar & Spice Thai Restaurant (Boston.com recommended): 1933 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
• Sullivan’s Castle Island: 2080 William J. Day Boulevard, South Boston
• Great sub-shop: 324 Cabot Street, Beverly
• Tatte Bakery & Cafe (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• The Abbey (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Tikki Masala: 3706 Washington St., Jamaica Plain
• Tsurumen (Boston.com recommended): 420 Highland Avenue, Somerville
• Turner Seafood: Multiple locations
• Union Oyster House: 41 Union Street, downtown
• Waku Waku Ramen (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Yume Wo Katare (Boston.com recommended): 1923 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
• Zaftigs Delicatessen (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations
• Zo Greek (Boston.com recommended): Multiple locations

Katelyn Umholtz

Food and restaurant journalist

Katelyn Umholtz covers food and restaurants for Boston.com. Katelyn is also the author of The Dish, a weekly food newsletter.