Summer Soups

Cool Runnings

by Kelly White

The SoupMan chain offers many options for cold-seekers, including gazpacho and cucumber bowls, but you should opt for the classic French Vichyssoise.The smooth stew features potatoes, leeks and onions combined with cream and chicken stock.

Order beyond the raw bar at Pearl. The slick restaurant and lounge spoons up a chilled carrot yuzu, a citrusy fruit and veggie purée with avocado, mango and mint. You're not too suave to slurp.

The fresh fruit soup at Warsaw Café is served cold, but their borscht, sadly, is not. Regardless, spoon up the mainstay's blend of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries — garnished with orange zest and roasted almonds — and you'll wonder why it's not called berry bisque. Sure, hot soup makes you all warm inside — but the cool stuff just makes you clever.

Like we said, not all borscht is hot. When the weather turns, the beet soup rendition at Zeke's Deli is ice-cold refreshment. The bowl of purple-tinged beet broth is capped with sour cream and is much sweeter than the steamy kind. The best part — you can take a quart home with you.