If you haven't eaten at Ole Mexican Grill in Cambridge, MA, and you love unique and authentic Mexican cuisine, I highly recommend it.  It is a small, bright building tucked away on a side street in Inman Square.  The menu is inspired, and they offer Cambridge's largest selection of specialty tequilas as

Until now, I had only eaten Indian food a couple times.  Both times occurred in the ‘eighties at the only Indian restaurant in Albuquerque.  It had been close to a decade but I vividly remembered being fascinated by the restaurant’s tall brass water pitchers, the women adorned with bindis and wearing saris, the dark-skinned men hovering over the tandoor ovens in the kitchen, the ethnic music, and the general elegance the restaurant assumed.

Always homemade, this was the first place where I saw a soup’s creation on a regular basis – Double Rainbow built their soups from fat up.  Here, I discovered that garnishing soup meant much more than crumbling saltines on top of clam chowder.  Sometimes the accent of a garnish was essential in creating the finished flavor the saucier had imagined. Sometimes the garnish was part of the recipe that was not meant to be cooked in the soup or cooked separately and added at the end.

Few things remain the same on the Ave in Seattle’s University District. Sitting next to one of the largest universities on the west coast, the Ave has seen its fair share of change over the last few decades. One thing that has remained constant, though, is the Continental.

A friend and I recently enjoyed a quiet evening at Vlora Restaurant on
Boylston Street in Boston. Not paying attention, I almost walked past the
stairway that leads to the entrance of this basement establishment, but
was impressed when I got there. The large wooden doors at the bottom of
the stairs provides a grand entrance, and the interior shines with
luxurious elegance.

The most exciting thing about Bucktown Soup Cafe is the innovative variety of soups on offer – alongside the standards like Chicken Noodle, Lobster Bisque and Chili; they offer things like Cheeseburger Chowder, or Mushroom and Brie.

If I didn't know better, I would have gone on and on about the Oval Room's delicate medallions of shrimp sausage with citrus-dressed micro-greens in a bath of mushroom jus, because (unless I'm trippin') what's billed simply as "Wild Mushroom Soup" is anything but.

Trying to describe this soup to a friend was like a scene out of Willy Wonka:

The Old Salt (www.oldsaltnh.com) in Hampton, NH, is a landmark on Route 1 that

Boston Chowda Company has several cafes in Boston, MA, and the North Shore.   They’re known for their locally inspired chowders and soups but they also make pot pies, sandwiches, pasta sauces, and other treats.<