On the Menu: Savor some soup at one of Bloomington's many restaurants

Carol Kugler, The Herald-Times
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It's cold outside and that means it's time to search for some warm soup options. While your favorite restaurant may have soup, there are some places a little less well known that are worth visiting.

Roly Poly Sandwiches at 1616 W. Third St. has four different soups on the weekly menu. The options include Baja chicken enchilada, baked potato, broccoli cheddar, lobster bisque, wicked Thai chicken and rice, and garden vegetable.

Lennie's restaurant has two "soups of the day," one of which is always vegetarian or vegan. The soups rotate, and include longtime favorite chicken tortilla. In addition, Lennie's always has Voodoo chili and French onion soup. The soups are available for to-go customers as well as dine-in. To-go sizes are an 8-ounce cup, 12-ounce crock or 32-ounce quart.

Chicken tortilla soup is sometimes available at Lennie's.
Chicken tortilla soup is sometimes available at Lennie's.

Hive restaurant has three soup options: chicken velvet, Lennie's voodoo chili and black bean. All can be eaten dine-in or have take-out sizes of cup, bowl or quart.

Voodoo chili is one of the soups available at Lennie's and Hive.
Voodoo chili is one of the soups available at Lennie's and Hive.

Chefs Table Catering has a rotating soup menu. Recent soups of the day were French onion, clam chowder, chicken pot pie, lasagna (yes, it's a soup) and split pea. Broccoli cheddar, sausage potato kale and ham and bean were other recent options.

For a more Asian style soup, stop by a Korean, Chinese or Thai restaurant.

For Korean kimchi jigae (stew), try Hoosier Seoulmate, Mama's Korean BBQ Restaurant, at 2630 E. 10th St., and Korea Restaurant, 409 E. Fourth St.

Rush Hour Station and Burma Garden are two of the restaurants that serve pho. Rush Hour also has Peace, Love and Coconut soup, served with lime leaves and lemongrass.

LongFei has soups including egg and tomato soup, seafood tofu soup, pickled shredded pork in egg soup and pork rib and kelp soup. Red authentic Chinese restaurant has fish filet with pickled cabbage soup, white gourd pork rib soup and hot and sour soup.

For spicy Thai soup, try Tom Kha (with coconut milk) and Tom Yum (sour soup) at both My Thai, My Thai Cafe and Happy Thai.

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Hilltop Restaurant to soon add pizza options

Within the next 30 days, Hilltop Restaurant in Spencer will add pizza to its offerings, according to co-owner Zach Carter, who previously helped run Pizza Town USA in Spencer.

"We're real close to being open," he said recently. Pizza will be available at a pick-up window, as take out and there will be a 5-mile delivery area for orders.

Hilltop patrons will be happy to hear prime rib will be remain on the menu the first Friday of each month. And rib night, serving baby back barbecue ribs, will be Thursday nights.

Hilltop restaurant, at 2434 U.S. 231, Spencer, has also begun taking reservations for Thanksgiving, when it will serve turkey and dressing with all the traditional trimmings, family style. Seatings will be at 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Nov. 23. For more information or reservations, call 812-829-3891.

Thanksgiving feast at the Tudor Room

It's not too early to start scheduling where you and your favorite people will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. The Tudor Room in the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., is now taking reservations for Thanksgiving, with seatings at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Nov. 23. Cost is $60 for adults and $25 for ages 12 and younger. Call 812-855-1620, email tudorrm@indiana.edu or go to online to OpenTable to make reservations.

Contact Carol Kugler at ckugler@heraldt.com or 812-331-4359.

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