Two or three years ago, I used to go to Soup Dragon as often as I could for my fix of sustenance that the small friendly cafe on Capel Street specialising in soup offered.

I don’t know what happened, but some time early last year (perhaps around the same time as the second premises around the corner from the original was opened) the quality of the soup took an awfully sharp drop.  It had basically become over-priced and under-flavoured.   I was one sad soup lover, let me tell you.

A few months back, after the second premises on Ormond Quay had closed, I was enticed back into their Capel Street cafe by this giant sign in the window:

Cheep is right.  The small size vegetarian soup – of which there are usually around 6 choices daily – plus two slices of delicious bread, and a piece of fruit is a perfect size lunch.  It’s an absolute bargain at €3 and has ensured that Soup Dragon has a queue outside the door regularly at lunch time.  Good for them.

The soup prices to eat in are the same as before (€5.30 for a small, €6.30 for a medium and €9 for a large) and those prices include non-vegetarian soups, the lovely fresh bread and a piece of fruit as well.  Have a look here at a sample of their soup menu, which changes daily.

Perhaps it’s the bargain that makes the soup taste better but I feel like Soup Dragon has had a return to form, producing the deliciously fresh and flavoursome soups that had made me such a fan in the first place.

If you work close enough to Capel Street, pop in and get yourself a take-away soup.  And you can also get yourself a good cup of coffee for €2 a cup.

You can’t go wrong.

PS Sorry there are no pics of the soup.  I had the most beautiful Indian Spiced Potato Soup today but it was so delicious I had it eaten before the camera got a look in!

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