I'm a soup fan. Anyone who knows me will tell you that if a day goes by without soup nearby I will completely freak out. What's not to love. It warms you up in the winter and cools you down in the summer (via the chillies you put in). It has a ton of vitamins from when the boiling process killed all the veggies swimming inside, drained them of all the vitamins and minerals and stored them into a heavenly broth that hits your body like a hefty dose of crack. And they come in a variety of shapes and forms, from watery to thick, from stoups to creams, from meaty to all veggies, from borscht's to consomme's. There's a million recipes and combinations and it's great because there is no right recipe for either one of them. Just throw some things (any things) into water and boil it down...that my friends, is soup. To me, it's one of life's necessities.

Some choices are just impossible to make.

Toronto.com has posted a nice article with all the best soup joints in TO. You should check it out.

Of course if we're speaking of soups, we cannot ignore the Japanese Noodle Houses. The ramen found in some of them is downright godly. You know the soup will be good for ya, when the menu asks for your fat content preference..regular fat, medium fat, or extra rich/fat. With the extra you'll need to down it fast, else your soup will go from a liquid state to a solid in a matter of minutes, as it cools down. Now that's flavor!

The Star ran a recent article with the best Noodle joints in the TO. We should consider ourselves extra fat lucky this year, as Kinton ramen just opened up and in my opinion it's the most authentic, with a great atmosphere and decent prices. Stay away from Momofuku, bad juju, bad soups. Now if we can get Vacouver's Hokkaido and Kintaro to open up shop here, we are set.

Oh and if you're keeping count. Nothing beats homemade soup, so get busy and put some meat and veggies in a pot of water.

Cost: much better than any entrees you'll get out there