Soup
WHERE TO FIND GOOD SOUP IN DUMFRIES
ONE BANK STREET CAFE, 1 BANK STREET
Oh how I love these concise titles: One Bank Street. This is a very good cafe. It sits up a small flight of steps, above the Coach & Horses Inn, and could be easily missed. Don't miss it. It's exceedingly bright and airy inside, with works of art on the old stone walls. The sort of homemade soups you are likely to encounter are 'Vegetable and Bean', 'Sweet Potato and Coconut', and all that sort of thing. [Closed on Sundays and Mondays.]
Oh how I love these concise titles: One Bank Street. This is a very good cafe. It sits up a small flight of steps, above the Coach & Horses Inn, and could be easily missed. Don't miss it. It's exceedingly bright and airy inside, with works of art on the old stone walls. The sort of homemade soups you are likely to encounter are 'Vegetable and Bean', 'Sweet Potato and Coconut', and all that sort of thing. [Closed on Sundays and Mondays.]
RAINBOW SNACK BAR, 14 GREAT KING STREET
Within the plain unassuming innards of the Rainbow Snack Bar elderly ladies quietly shuffle back and forth between the kitchen and tables bearing great steaming bowls of soup. There is no rush, there is no stress, all there is is a peacefulness whose dreamy depths are only broken by the sound of enthusiastic slurping. In this tired but homely 1960s interior they have something like four different soups on each day, ranging from 'Ham and Lentil' to 'Scotch Broth', 'Mushroom' and 'Chicken and Rice' (the latter bringing back memories of Ayr!). They might sound like uninspiring traditional varieties, but you just canny beat a huge cauldron-like bowl of 'Ham and Lentil' to warm your very bones. A tremendous place caught in a tantalising timewarp.
Within the plain unassuming innards of the Rainbow Snack Bar elderly ladies quietly shuffle back and forth between the kitchen and tables bearing great steaming bowls of soup. There is no rush, there is no stress, all there is is a peacefulness whose dreamy depths are only broken by the sound of enthusiastic slurping. In this tired but homely 1960s interior they have something like four different soups on each day, ranging from 'Ham and Lentil' to 'Scotch Broth', 'Mushroom' and 'Chicken and Rice' (the latter bringing back memories of Ayr!). They might sound like uninspiring traditional varieties, but you just canny beat a huge cauldron-like bowl of 'Ham and Lentil' to warm your very bones. A tremendous place caught in a tantalising timewarp.
BURNS CAFE, BANK STREET
A small and homely cafe whose walls are full of framed newspaper cuttings and things to do with Robert Burns. Which is quite apt, given that the man actually lived in the building when first arriving in Dumfries in 1791. Soups on offer in the Burns Cafe may be 'Lentil' or 'Ministrone' or whatever.
A small and homely cafe whose walls are full of framed newspaper cuttings and things to do with Robert Burns. Which is quite apt, given that the man actually lived in the building when first arriving in Dumfries in 1791. Soups on offer in the Burns Cafe may be 'Lentil' or 'Ministrone' or whatever.
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