Soup!

I seem to be attending a lot of festivals these days, eh? I can't help it. I read my TONY every week, and it just so happens that there's been a lot of food-related things going on! This weekend, it was a soup festival to support Brooklyn's High School of International Studies culinary program. At only $5/person too, it was a steal. The event was held in various restaurants along Smith Street in Cobble Hill. Each of the 24 total restaurants had 4oz samples of whatever soup best represented their restaurant menu. There was everything from pasta fagiole to mulligatawny to spiced carrot to avgolemono to soupe de Poisson. The Mister and I tried as many as we could, but even we couldn't manage all 24 between the two of us. That's a LOT of soup. I think the best part of the festival, was the fact that you got to go into each restaurant. Many were places I probably would have just passed by on the street, but now that you know what they look like inside, and what's on their menus, I'm much more apt to go back and try them out for lunch or dinner. Specifically, we'd been hearing lots of good things about a new restaurant, Seersucker. They offered a Country Captain Chicken Soup, which was really more of a curry chicken chili topped with almonds and raisins. I was skeptical (I typically don't like sweet and savory things together), but this soup was really fantastic. Now I can't wait to go back and try out other things.

Smith Street, Soup, and several lines

Clearly, we're enjoying Brooklyn and all it has to offer. Mostly, the food!