| If you've got an insane hankering for some chicken | | | | restaurants make something like a soup, or any food |
| tortilla soup, but don't know how to make it, then you're | | | | for that matter is tested, and improved, and tested |
| pretty much stuck having to go out and get it right? | | | | some more until it gets rave reviews by customers of |
| Well not necessarily but more about that later. | | | | their restaurants. |
| First let's talk about where you CAN go out and get | | | | So you can almost be sure that if you're going to a |
| the best chicken tortilla soup. | | | | restaurant like Houlihan's, or Friday's, or On the Border |
| Places That Have the Best | | | | then you're going to get some really good chicken |
| There's really nothing worse than wanting something | | | | tortilla soup. |
| so bad, like the way you might crave a soup, | | | | Now the one's above I've mention are all good. |
| (especially one as good as tortilla soup) but not | | | | Actually I don't know about Friday's...in fact I don't know |
| wanting to waste a trip going to a restaurant where | | | | if they even have it, but I do know that On the Border |
| they just don't do it right. Don't you hate that. | | | | has some tremendous tortilla soup. Houlihan's I recently |
| Where do you go when you want something that is | | | | had and it was OK. Not great, but I would get it again. |
| so...well...so specific I guess you can say. I mean you | | | | The chunks of chicken in theirs was actually the best |
| really just can't head out to the diner on the corner and | | | | part. |
| expect to get some good chicken tortilla soup. They're | | | | My Very Favorite Chicken Tortilla Soup with a |
| just not going to do it. I mean most diner's can't even | | | | Different Name! |
| mix up a good French Onion Soup for heaven's sake. | | | | For the most part this soup is simply chicken broth, |
| My wife once went to a diner and the French Onion | | | | Mexican seasoning, onions, corn, and tomatoes |
| Soup was basically chicken broth with some onions | | | | (salsa)...with some sort of tortilla chips and shredded |
| and soggy bread. Not even an attempt to make it look | | | | cheese on top. But though so simple, finding a |
| brown. | | | | restaurant who gets it right seems to be a challenge |
| That was horrible, and you know that went right back. | | | | for me. |
| So you know that if a diner can't even muster up | | | | But one of the best that I've ever tasted was from |
| something that simple, then they're likely not going to | | | | Chili's. Wow, the head chef's there at Chili's, wherever |
| pull off something like this soup recipe. Of course I'm | | | | they are, got this one right. Oh in case you go there |
| sure there are some diners who knock it out of the | | | | looking for it though, it's actually called Chicken |
| park with the tortilla soup, but for the most part you're | | | | Enchilada Soup. Little play on Mexican terms I suppose, |
| going to have to go somewhere else other than a | | | | or maybe that's why it's so much better, maybe |
| diner. | | | | there's some enchilada sauce mixed in there |
| Types of Restaurants to Go for Tortilla Soup | | | | somewhere. |
| Now you may not believe it but actually the best place | | | | Either way, hands down they've got the best chicken |
| to go for this sort of soup is to one of the chain | | | | tortilla soup that I've tasted and I've looked high and |
| restaurants. Here's why. Usually the way these | | | | low. |