10 Best Places to Have Soups in Winter at Sydney

As in winter, you love soups to warm you up and boost your energy requirements on cold days or nights; here are the five best places to have soups in the winter season in Sydney.

1. Bun Me

Location: Shop E5, 2 Alfred St, Sydney 2000

Bun Me serves a great Vietnamese soup called Pho. It is seasoned beef broth that is slowly cooked and seasoned with spices. If you want it sweetened, it is served with hoisin. The soup comes with rice noodles with red and spring onions, crunchy bean sprouts, finely sliced Thai basil, and lime juice for flavor. With plentiful rice noodles, it is served in a cup and costs $6.90.

2. Croutons Soup Bar

Location: 27/60 Margaret St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Croutons Soup Bar is famous for both beef and chicken soup. The har mee (prawn soup) and laksa (rice noodles with a curry sauce and hot soup) are regular options, but the lentil soup is unique. Plus, the pea and ham soup is pure comfort food – a thick, green number heavy with the hearty flavor of dried peas. The soups have croutons for toppings, soured cream, cheese, and hot sauce. Bread is an extra dollar, and there are four Sonoma varieties to choose from, so at least you're paying for quality. You can also order butter on demand, as soups without butter aren't as yummy.

3. Malay Chinese Takeaway

Location: 1/50-58 Hunter St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Malay Chinese is famous for laksas (rice noodles with hot soup) and fried noodles with Malay curries. You can either eat at the spot and enjoy the crowds on Hunter Street or take it away; that is your choice. The famous dish here is the prawn laksa, which consists of heaps of vermicelli noodles tossed with crunchy bean sprouts and garnished with puffed tofu and plenty of little prawns. The hot soup is creamy, fragrant, and a bit sweet. You can have a dash of lime or ask for some chili sauce to make it spicy and sour.

4. Pho Pasteur

Location: 709 George Street, Chinatown, Sydney, NSW

This is another Vietnamese spot for hot soups. If you like beef broth, this is a good place to go. It serves a savory, bone-rich flavor with heaps of flat noodles topped with bean sprouts, lemon, and giant stalks of Thai basil. Also, enjoy the crispy chicken rice noodle soup where your plate has a pile of fried chicken on the side to pick up and gnaw on in between gulps of fragrant soup.

5. Ramen O-San

Location: Dixon House, B1 Little Hay St, Haymarket NSW 2000, Australia

This is a famous soup center for tonkatsu ramen (Japanese noodle soup made from pork bones). Located inside Dixon House Food Court, you will find the broth with the tonkatsu rich, creamy, and pleasingly smoky, topped with mushrooms and green onions. They have soft-boiled eggs and some veggies like cabbage and leek for garnishing. What type of garnishing do you want, or are there any more variations of the tonkatsu? Ask, and they will make it for you here.

6. Café Giulia

Location: 92 Abercrombie St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia

At Café Giulia, you’ll find Mediterranean-inspired foods like split pea fava and fasolatha, as well as Greek bean soups all year round.

7. Bertoni in Farrer Place

Location: 2/8-18 Bent St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Three different soups are served here, from classics like potato and leek to more exotic and flavorful stews. Add sweet potato chips, croutons, and a slice of bread to your order to make it hearty.

8. Venus Wholefoods

Location: 352 Bourke St, Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia

Venus serves up delicious whole foods, and its soups are a legend. With dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegetarian options, you can have loads of non-meat options here that are full of protein and goodness.

9. Egg of the Universe

Location: 711 Darling St, Rozelle NSW 2039, Australia

They serve slow-cooked chicken broth with greens, buckwheat, and some buttered spelt sourdough on the side that you will love the taste and variety.

10. Bitton Gourmet

Location: 36-37A Copeland St, Alexandria NSW 2015, Australia

For some French taste, this is the right place. You can relish onion soup with gruyere and garlic croutons for a genuinely European experience and have one of Bitton's freshly baked baguettes in the soup.

Now curl up with a hot steaming bowl of soup this winter and stay snugly warm.