2000 T here's nothing as inviting as a warm bowl of soup on a frosty winter day. So, it seems like a good idea to share this handy guide to some of the best soups around the Louisville area. The range of recipes has bowls to suit all tastes and diets. And stone soup, of French folk tale fame, was a metaphor for what can be achieved when people cooperate with one another. The soup scene in Louisville restaurants is lively and varied.
Some eateries have signature soups that customers can count on finding whenever they dine.
Many people would be disappointed, for instance, if the spinach and bleu cheese soup disappeared from the menu at Bobby J's Club Cafe. In other establishments, chefs use soup to flex their culinary muscles, changing the offerings as often as daily to experiment with ingredients, flavors and textures while taking advantage of seasonal ingredients. Chef Joe Castro of the English Grill and the Thoroughbred Lounge in the Camberley Brown Hotel recently served a stunning, bright orange, carrot and ginger soup for lunch. Soups are also a signature item at 211 Clover Lane Restaurant, which presented a duck bouillon to diners in December. And the soups also change often at Club Grotto, where customers are likely to encounter cold weather creations such as corn bisque, roasted pumpkin bisque and butternut squash soup.