Cheapest fare in Covent Garden (Soup Works)

Member Name: robyn

Product:	Soup Works
Date:	10/09/01 (438 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty variety of soups, Great if you want a seat

Disadvantages: Stay away from bottled water

On weekends when I do some shopping in Covent Garden and am hankering for something aside from a soulless sarnie from M&S (would prefer not to stand on the street corner with plastic sandwich box in one hand, shopping bags leant up against my legs, scoffing sarnie in other hand while cars go by), it is nice to sit down and eat, without paying an arm and a leg.

Soupworks provides a perfect place to rest your weary bones and fill up on some heartwarming substance: soup. The menu is vibrant and long with simple soups for the purist and very complex soups (pumpkin with parmesan is what I had last time) for the more daring. All are supplied, very hot, and come in three different sized cups, depending on how hungry you are. You pay a little extra if you want to eat in but it's a small price to pay if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of Covent Garden shoppers.

I typically get the medium size and for about £2.50 get a nice meal. If you want additional toppings- croutons, or grated cheese for instance- those are extra, but also not really necessary. If you want to stave off the hunger, a plain medium soup is all you need.

Bread rolls, fruit and cake can be purchased at an additional cost. The only complaint I have is the bottled SoupWorks water, which has a rather dodgy label and appears to me to be nothing more than bottled London tap water (I can't remember the exact phrase they use but something like distilled filtered water, which doesn't say much really). To pay £1 for some water that isn't really bottled from a mountain stream seems a bit extreme to me.

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