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The 10 Best Soups in NYC
Balthazar is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

1. Balthazar

9.0
80 Spring St (at Crosby St), New York, NY
French Restaurant · SoHo · 1059 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Home to a superlative bowl of French onion soup, enriched with Port, white wines & a browned cap of melted Gruyere.& Country bread croutons soak up caramel-colored broth thickened with charred onions.

Taste Good Malaysian Cuisine 好味 is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

2. Taste Good Malaysian Cuisine 好味

8.1
82-18 45th Ave (btwn 82nd & 83rd St.), Elmhurst, NY
Malay Restaurant · Elmhurst · 55 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Head to this Malaysian restaurant in Elmhurst for two kinds of laksa, curry laksa and assam laksa, both fragrant noodle soups radiating with chiles and perfumed with fermented sardines and anchovies.

Stage Deli Restaurant is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

3. Stage Deli Restaurant

1481 2nd Ave, New York, NY
Deli · Upper East Side · 1 tip

Village VoiceVillage Voice: We find the borscht here so delightful. Hot, it comes red (beets) or white (potatoes, bacon).The crimson elixir displays a muted sweetness, brimming with endearingly mushy boiled vegetables.

Wanka is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

4. Wanka

71-04 Grand Ave, Maspeth, NY
South American Restaurant · 4 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Their massive bowl of parihuela, is a tangy seafood stew buzzing with garlic, shellfish stock, red and yellow aji chile peppers.The bowl's jammed with enough marine life to stock an aquarium as well.

Russ & Daughters Café is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

5. Russ & Daughters Café

9.2
127 Orchard St (btwn Rivington St & Delancey St), New York, NY
Café · Lower East Side · 301 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: The smoked whitefish chowder caters to modern palates with the addition of espelette pepper. Its mellow smokiness softens in the cream base with flaky shreds of whitefish, root vegetables, & dill.

Dirt Candy is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

6. Dirt Candy

8.3
86 Allen St (btwn Grand St & Broome St), New York, NY
Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurant · Lower East Side · 151 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Try the kale matzoh ball soup with a tableside presentation of verdant vegetable stock. Miniature kale balls surround a poached egg, which adds a splash of striking yellow when punctured.

Paet Rio is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

7. Paet Rio

7.4
81-10 Broadway (at 81st St), Elmhurst, NY
Thai Restaurant · 12 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Num tok, is an opaque noodle soup seasoned with fresh animal blood. Choose pork or beef broths with springy noodles and tender meatballs, the whole murky bowl a tempest of iron-rich, earthy flavors.

Bognan International Corp West African Restaurant is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

8. Bognan International Corp West African Restaurant

590 E 169th St (Franklin Av), Bronx, NY
African Restaurant · Morrisania · 3 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: Okra stews with tomatoes to form a viscous, herbal soup, while peanut butter, ginger, garlic, & chiles form an aromatic peanut butter soup. Eat them both with fufu, the bulbous mounds of cassava.

Thanh Da is one of The 10 Best Soups in NYC.

9. Thanh Da

7.6
6008 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Vietnamese Restaurant · Sunset Park · 27 tips and reviews

Village VoiceVillage Voice: In the bun nuoc leo, a canopy of basil hides shrimp and crispy chunks of roast pork, which bathe in an unctuous broth flavored with whole fermented fish that disintegrate during the cooking process.