I liked the matzoh ball soup from Free Times Café. The soup on its own is $8.50 Cdn)
They have a soup and latke combo ($16.95 Cdn), or soup and latke slider combo ($18.95 Cdn). It’s also possible to add extra matzoh balls ($3 Cdn each ) Free Times is on the Ritual App
It’s hard to believe a bowl of avgolemono or fakkes now costs $12 Cdn a bowl at Mezes. My friend recommended the avgolemono yesterday. I make it at home so I haven’t ordered it recently. The last bowl I ordered on the Danforth would have been at Soula’s in 2019.
Soula’s
Megas
Holy moly, I make fakkes quite often and could probably make at least 20 bowls for the $12.
Lhasa Thukpa at Tibet Café in Kensington Market. This Thukpa soup contains beef, vegetables, omelette, noodles, ginger and garlic. $17.99 before tax for a litre.
Bump. 
I can’t believe it’s been 9 months since my Lhasa Thukpa.
Have you had any good soups lately?
My Deluxe Wonton from Rol San. It was good.
I called
(416) 977-1128 to place my order
, so Rol San wouldn’t have to give UberEats or Skip The Dishes a cut.
The smoky chicken soup at Mandy’s. It was pretty good.
I wanted to try the peanut butter lentil soup (PBL), but they had run out.
$5/ 8 ounce when added as a side to a salad.
I enjoyed the borscht from Borscht Kitchen on Lipincott, which is operating out of Sushi Hub, in the old Aunties and Uncles’ space.
They have one table outside. The restaurant is mostly set up for take-out or delivery. It’s possible to order online. Orders take around 30 minutes to prepare.
It’s a chunky borscht with a fair amount of potato and carrot. Less salty than the borscht served at Hoyra and Heavenly Perogy.
Borscht Kitchen also serves a sorrel borscht and a chicken soup. I bought a chicken soup but I have not eaten it yet.
Here is a photo of my borscht from Hoyra 2 weeks ago.
The Borscht Kitchen chicken potato soup was not very good. Too salty, not a great stock. I can’t recommend it.
Cafe Polonez makes a decent chicken noodle, Free Times makes a decent chicken matzoh ball, and Pancho y Emiliano makes a good Mexican chicken soup.
The sorrel borscht intrigues me. I was how to make a “summer” borscht by my wife’s mother, from the Ukranian/Russian Mennonite tradition. It is based on smoked pork sausage, lots of sorrel, dill, and green onion, potatoes, and is finished with buttermilk. I have never seen anything like it served at a restaurant, even in some of the Mennonite places in rural Manitoba.
Sorrel is in season in the spring, so it tends to be on menus from late April to June . I suspect any restaurants serving it now are using frozen sorrel or serving soup that has been frozen.
I have seen sorrel borscht available at Polish restaurants and stored, and I have eaten a French sorrel soup at L’Express in Montreal.
My first time trying an Eastern Euro sorrel borscht was at a cultural festival in 1999, in Toronto, where several dozen cultural clubs opened their doors to the public one weekend. London, Brampton, Saskatoon, and Mississauga used to have similar festivals.
At this point, I can’t remember if it was at the Russian Club or the Ukrainian Club.
I think some Polish stores still sell a frozen sorrel borscht year round.
This looks fairly similar to the Mennonite style summer borscht
a vegan version
Tried a new soup from Raku sansai udon. I prefer ankane over this but it’s good as expected
Sansai udon
I tried the refrigerated Caldo Verde from Dough Bakeshop last night. Quite good , spicy kick and plenty of sausage. $16 for a mason jar.
Leites culinaria has an excellent recipe for caldo verde if you feel like making your own. I used collard greens for their milder flavour.
thanks 
I make Caldo Verde at home when I’m with my DCs. That is a good recipe I also own one of Leite’s cookbooks, which I can recommend! The New Portuguese Table.
Some other ideas : Felicity Cloake on Caldo Verde
While I live near the Portuguese area in Toronto, not that many places serve Caldo Verde as restaurant take-out in Little Portugal these days. I cook a lot when I’m in southwestern Ontario and tend to eat resto take-out and ready-made food when I have a short stay in TO.
I have his book, too. There are some nice things in there, but I find that I use his site more often than the book.
I am trying to use more of the books I already own.
I have used his site quite a bit. My cousin was one of his site’s recipe testers, for several years. She sent me pointers to dozens of the recipes on his site that she tried, as a tester. And then there were all the recipes I found on my own!
A great delivery from Raku again. Ordered the Kani Ankane today as felt like indulging. Good stuff and decent amount of crab meat. Went well for a day like today.
I love that beer. If you liked it, Godspeed has their take on it “Hommage” still available in-store. Too bad we couldn’t get the versions from the other breweries in Toronto.
