CUPCAKES COFFEE SHOP, COMMERCIAL STREET
Cupcakes Coffee Shop sits at the far end of the 1766 bridge over the River Tay, beside a lovely little toll-house whose days are probably numbered. It's a cosy sort of place with nice soft sofas, artwork on the walls, and a homely feel. With soups like 'Sweet Potato with Coconut and Chilli' you are guaranteed a warm belly before getting torn into the yummy cupcakes themselves. [NOTE - Cupcakes Coffee Shop was closed due to flooding when I was last there in late 2011. I very much hope it opens again soon.]

MACMILLAN COFFEE SHOP, ISLA ROAD
Located in the Quarrymill Woodland Park, the MacMillan Coffee Shop is only open from May to September, but worth a look if you're in the area. It's on the other side of the river from the centre of Perth, on the A93 near Scone Palace entrance. There are two soups on each day, made using local vegetables, and amongst a pretty impressive range you may find varieties like, 'Potato and Leek', 'Lentil', 'Carrot and Sweet Potato', 'Carrot and Courgette', 'Tomato', 'Potato and Bacon', 'Curried Parsnip', 'Potato and Apple', 'Minestrone', 'Chicken Broth', 'Butternut Squash and Carrot', 'Broccoli and Leek', 'Broccoli and Cheese', 'Cauliflower and Mushroom', 'Cream of Mushroom', or 'Country Vegetable'. Struth! You'd be hard pushed to find a more comprehensive range. Twelve out of ten for effort.

DESTINY ANTIQUES CAFE, PERTH AIRPORT, SCONE
This is an antique shop that has all manner of interesting collectables and - most important of all - a cafe that makes and serves some home-baked carrot cake, fresh baked-each-day cherry scones, and some seriously fine soups. The sort of good soup you are likely to encounter could be 'Sweet Potato and Spinach', said to be a favourite, and one good reason why you should head for Scone and Destiny Antiques without delay. If you have your map (Ordnance Survey Landranger 58, 'Perth & Alloa', 1:50000 scale, or one-and-a-quarter inches to a mile), you'll see Scone about two miles north of Perth, and Perth Aerodrome about two miles further on. Might take a little effort to get there, but it sounds to me like a journey worth making.

CAFFE COCO, 1 SOUTH METHVEN STREET
Caffe CoCo is an attractive soup-slurping place sited beside the town's mill-lade. It has a seriously classy modern interior, with one wood-panelled wall and various arty things decked here and there, including extravagantly huge and quite magnificent chandelier things. Soups include varieties like 'Tomato and Basil' or 'Lentil'. A nice place.

THE MANNA HOUSE, 240 HIGH STREET
The Manna House Christian Coffee Shop & Bookshop, to give it it's full title, does a good bowl of soup. When I was there the choice was either 'Scotch Broth' or 'Cream of Parsnip and Apple.' I had the latter, and it was a very tasty soup indeed. The bread that was served with it was a little tired, and the butter was straight out of the fridge. It's not easy spreading ice-cubes on hard bread. That said, once you had dooked your bread-with-the-inch-thick-butter into your soup then it all just kinda came together in a delicious culinary mush.

THE SOUP POT, 32 SCOTT STREET
A small and basic cafe with a good range of soups. Usually three on, like 'Scotch Broth', 'Lentil', and 'Chickpea and Spinach'. Not sure what else I can say, but with a name like that you've just GOT to give it a shot.

GIRAFFE CAFE, 51-53 SOUTH STREET
In here the house speciality soup is a broth made from those strange sticky-out things that giraffes have on their heads. It's a good place, whose interior is full of gifts and plants, where you may slurp soups like 'Potato and Leek' or 'Giraffe Sticky-Out Broth'. You may notice when you pay it a visit that it sits right beside Fleshers Vennel... well, this is where the giraffes have those strange things surgically and painlessly removed prior to being placed in the soup pot. Would I kid you?