Canned can’t compare to small-batch soups like homemade, cajun sweet potato and chicken or hungarian mushroom. There’s enough layered flavor in every spoonful that will make you want to can the canned — and trade it in for soup made from scratch daily at The Soupery in Portsmouth.
Don’t let the humble, hole-in-the-wall facade fool you, these are experts of the industry. Stews, soups, and yes — even the basic grilled cheese tastes like nothing you’ve ever had before. Step inside the ground floor, just make sure you don’t bonk your head on pocket-sized door frame. This elbow-to-elbow workshop, with its low ceilings adorned with delicate string lights, mustard yellow walls and slanted checkered floors is a delightful combination of both whimsy and midcentury.
You’ll feel like you just stepped into the best kept secret in all of New Hampshire — or at the very least, a hideaway from the weathered, cobbled streets.
When temperatures start to drop, a cup of warming maple butternut squash soup is the tastiest way to thaw your weather-beaten face and fingers. The sweetness doesn’t overpower the savory, which manages to avoid seeming laden with cream or the other extreme, completely diluted. In other words, you could have a bowl and it wouldn’t make you fall asleep during your lunch break.
Grilled cheese to appease.
Don’t leave without pairing it with a colby and jack grilled cheese. The trick to stringy, gooey grilled cheese is the combination of different cheese. A generous blend that doesn’t tug or tease, melts in your mouth as well as between the crisp edges of golden toasted bread.
The frigid temperatures of the season seem a little more bearable after you’ve scraped your bowl and licked your spoon clean. Bundle up and stay warm all winter long with wicked good soups from The Soupery.
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