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Let me start by saying I'll give Cafe Zupas another shot. The staff were very friendly. The place has an interesting decor and inviting, though very bright, ambiance. I'm anxious to try their salads, which looked delightful. But during this visit we opted for the soups and sandwiches - big mistake.
The sandwiches were fine. We tried the ultimate grilled cheese, the vegetarian and the avocado crab melt. Nothing fantastic, but interesting and mostly good. The vegetables were crisp and the bread was fresh. Their "hearty" whole wheat bread was pillowy soft, like a dinner roll. Not what I was expecting but not necessarily a bad thing.
We tried three different soups.They all looked good and the ingredients sound appetizing but be warned - they are way over-salted. We tried a lobster bisque, a cauliflower and a clam chowder. The lobster bisque was good, but too salty. The cauliflower was really a cheese soup with the barest hint of cauliflower, it was also too salty. Without exaggeration, I can say that the clam chowder was saltier than seawater. Putting a spoonful in your mouth was actually PAINFUL. We had to send it back.
I'm not sodium adverse or on some low sodium diet. My friends make fun of me putting extra salt on restaurant french fries. I enjoy well-seasoned food. And still Cafe Zupas' soups were far, far too salty.
Given that all three soups were very salty, one painfully such, I think that copious amounts of salt is part of their recipes and not just a one-off mistake.
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