Adventures in Soup

Apolegizes for the late review. My tuesday become incredible full.

For the premiere of Adventures in Soup I headed over to lower Chelsea and picked up my partner in soup from work and we went across the street to Rocking Horse Cafe. (8th Ave and 19th st) It's a cute, hip and sexy Mexican restaurant that aims at making mexican food haute. It was rather empty for lunch when I walked in, but it was a little late for lunch.

They only have "soupa del dia". They had a cauliflower soup and a spicy chicken. We ordered both. The cauliflower soup didn't look like too much in the bowl, but it was a creamed spoonful of cauliflower goodness, topped off with crispy duck. It was also topped with some sort of oil something, but the waiter spoke too fast for me to catch what it was. It didn't add any flavor and being a New York female my first thought was of my thighs. So if you can, order without - if you worry about things like thighs. Behind all the flavors of the soup was the slightest hint of anise. Intriguing. It's the kind of soup you'd want to curl up into and watch a snow storm.

The spicy chicken was indeed spicy and full of chicken. But not too full. It reminded me of a cross between torilla soup and minestrone. The heat lingered in my mouth a little too long, but the avocado on top helped cool that a little. I liked it, but the whole time wished it wasn't quite as lingeringly spicy. And I'm a fan of spicy.

If you want Mexican-ish soups I'd go here. But if you just want a really good soup I'd go somewhere else. Hopefully I'll find that place in the coming weeks.