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- Neighborhoods:
- Lakeview, North Side
- Categories:
- Ice Cream Parlors, Restaurants, Dessert Shops
- Cuisine:
- Californian, Soups
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- $
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100% ambiance
“Amazing service, amazing food, amazing prices, amazing location what else could you possibly need?”
100% dessert
“Also made fresh daily, the icy treats are made with REAL fruit - an excellent/refreshing/healtly lunch dessert for a great price!”
91% food quality
“really good soups are hard to find but i have found so many at the soup box!”
100% menu variety
“Love the variety and the mixes.”
100% overall
“great little place”
100% return potential
“very simple concept that works, make great soup and the people will come back, I highly recommend this place.”
90% service
“Price is great, soup is great and the people that work there are great.”
100% value
“Also made fresh daily, the icy treats are made with REAL fruit - an excellent/refreshing/healtly lunch dessert for a great price!”
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What Our Expert Scouts Say
November 25, 2012
A rotating selection of soups makes this one of my favorite spots to warm up in the winter.
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October 31, 2008
Yummy on the run. Great soups everyday. Quick and easy to grab and go or stop and enjoy! Indoor and outdoor seating. Get the breadbowl!
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February 28, 2008
Best cheap meal hands down. Come in with somewhere around five dollars (in cash) and leave very happy. This soup gallery offers free unlimited bread and a wide variety of soups (and salads) to meet any palate. Samples are free and remember to ask about combinations like potato and leak with broccoli and cheddar or clam chowder with lobster bisk. They are always creative, always friendly, and the atmosphere could not be more relaxing. I take all new comers to chicago to this restaurant and they all want to come back. I simply can not recommend this place highly enough. Even on the extremely rare occasion where I found something wrong with my soup they were extremely accommodating and fixed the problem immediately. Amazing service, amazing food, amazing prices, amazing location what else could you possibly need?
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October 30, 2007
Overrated Soup. After seeing all the great reviews I had to try the Soup Box. The soup was cold, they were out of the Italian bread. The soup tasted like canned Progresso soup.
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June 30, 2007
Simple Concept - Excellent Food!. Soup in the summer is weird but it certainly hi+ the spot today for lunch! The pitch is 12 soups made daily. We went with the Lobster Bisque and New England Clam Chowder - both were absolutely better than what you'd find anywhere else. If you want to be normal and celebrate summer, try their flavored ice gelato-ish cold creations. Also made fresh daily, the icy treats are made with REAL fruit - an excellent/refreshing/healtly lunch dessert for a great price!!!
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June 25, 2007
Great Soub, so-so Ice.
I love the soup selection and the prices are bueno. The bread is also very yummy.
The ice on the other hand is mediocre at best. It's too watery and sugary. It could use a lot more fruit and flavor and much less sugar. It's a good price, but I'd pay more for it to taste better.
I like the neighborhood feel too.
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January 04, 2007
I miss this place!. I was one of the people who was there when it first opened and visited it almost every day. I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! Unfortnately, I moved to the suburbs and there is nothing like it here. I'm still going through withdrawal 5 years later. I wish they would franchise it. It would be a gold mine in the suburban office parks. When friends head into the city, I always tell them to stop by and pick me up something. Miss you guys terribly!!
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April 26, 2006
Good Soup!!. I travel back-and-forth between Chicago and Colorado on a weekly basis. My hobby in Chicago is finding GOOD places to eat. The SoupBox is one of those places. The soups they make are AWESOME. The staff are always friendly.. Heck - they even tolerated me sitting in there to eat with my Denver Broncos Jacket on!! All soups are great and HOT!! The bread bowl is a great way to enjoy the soup as well as the accompanying "soggy bread" that becomes part of the bowl!!
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June 10, 2005
reminds me of my gramma. incredibly good soups, staff. We're very lucky to have them here. I could live on soup, but I'm choosy, and The Soup Box is for real-a must go-eat-eat some more-go back every day place!!!!! Can you tell how I feel about this place?
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May 25, 2005
sexy soup.. well, I am a really big fan of good soups. really good soups are hard to find but i have found so many at the soup box! i have never had a soup there i didn't love. you can even check online to see what soups they are serving any given day. this place makes me so happy. i think they are sneaking happy pills into the soups....
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January 11, 2005
Soup, Soup, Soup. Soupbox has a great selection of home made soups and I can't say that I've ever had one that wasn't EXCELLENT. It's more than I usually would like to spend on a bowl of soup ($6-7), but at least I can leave with a full warm belly.
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