Ingredient

Soup

Soup is on three plates at three of the kitchens we read. Three of them are printed under appetizer, and it comes as a soup more often than anything else, on two.

From 40 menus · soup is on 3 plates · How we read them

For the curious: the data views

Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the appetizer menu

Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the appetizer menu

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the appetizer menu

Travels with

What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the appetizer menu

Dishes

Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.

Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.

Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.

Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 3 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Soup at 3 kitchens across 3 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown1inland
West Ocean City1harbor
Day-trips ring1inland