Boston, MASoups

New England Soup Factory is a Newton shop built around soup, the one stop for many kinds at once. The pots run from chicken pot pie soup and lobster Newburg to chili con carne, Italian beef stew and Greek lemon chicken with orzo, with sandwiches, salads and sweets alongside. Order the chicken noodle soup, and check the day's menu for the rest.

Café Polonia is a South Boston restaurant serving Polish soul food, and every soup on its menu is worth a bowl, with the pickle soup the one to order on every visit: a dill-inflected, potato-stocked bowl on a bone broth base, with tangy grated pickles and their brine balanced by sour cream. Order the pickle soup, and add the barszcz, the Polish beet soup served with mushroom or meat ravioli.

Suya Joint is a Nubian Square restaurant for West African and especially Nigerian cooking, and much of its menu lives in the soup and stew realm. Each bowl comes with the protein of your choice, chicken, beef, fish, goat or a mix, and with fufu of pounded yam or garri for scooping. Order the creamy, peanut-based taushe, a northern Nigerian stew, or the spinach-forward efo riro, and add the namesake suya skewers.

Deuxave is a Back Bay French restaurant of composed plates and luxe ingredients, and its 9-Hour French Onion Soup is its comfort dish. The beef broth simmers for a full workday before it goes into a crock over a bone marrow crouton, under a thick layer of melted Comté. Order the 9-Hour French Onion Soup.

Effie's Kitchen is a Greek kitchen in Roslindale Village known for its avgolemono, a classic Greek soup. Order the avgolemono.