Nathan's Soup & Salad

Nathan's Soup & Salad. Photo by Ben Margolis (April 2007) Nathan's Soups - Feb 2008

Location

691 Park Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607

Hours (as of July 2009)

Monday - Friday: 10:00AM to 3:00PM

Saturday/Sunday: Closed

Phone

585 461-3005

Accessible

Yes

Alcohol

No

Email

<info AT nathanssoupandsalad DOT com>

Website

http://www.nathanssoupandsalad.com

Reviews

2006-09-15 Ra-Cha-Chow review

Several reviews on ChefMoz.org

Nathan's is a small soup and salad place on Park Avenue between Berkeley and Culver. The menu changes quite frequently, and they make all of their soups and salads in-house. Cash only.

As of May 2007, ChefMoz.org has two user reviews and gives Nathan's 4.5/5 stars for food, 4.5/5 for service, 3/5 for ambience, and 4.5/5 overall. One reviewer related Nathan's to the Soup Nazi (of Seinfeld fame) because of the line but added that the people are nice and the food is great. The other reviewer highly recommended Nathan's due to "shockingly low" prices as well as the great food and staff.

Rochester D and C article about the new ownership

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2007-03-30 20:33:14   I really want to like this place, and I keep trying it to see if my opinion changes. It's not bad, but it's not nearly as good as it could be. Still, it's cheap, and very popular around lunch time — there's often a long line, but service is quick, so the line generally moves quickly —GrahamSaathoff

2007-05-10 00:10:30   Delicious soups. I love their roasted chicken salad (served on a croissant) - light but so flavourful. It is not your typical mayo heavy chicken salad (they have that too..except they prepare it with grapes..heavenly but..not exactly the healthiest). I also recommend the garlic bread. —OneLove

2007-06-11 11:48:16   I think it would be worth mentioning in the description that, although the menu does change fairly often, the format is almost always Soup (a lot of soups, all of them hot in the winter, and some of them cold in the summer) & "Salad" (some sort of usually mayonnaise-based salad such as turkey salad with cranberries & walnuts) sandwiches served on a croissant. There's no big menu, no lettuce-based "true" salads, and no seating, but I love it. —BrendonTroy

2007-07-20 12:20:55   I love it. As the previous poster said, there is no seating. There is no other place like it in the area. —ElaineRobinson

2007-08-21 20:30:34   Sign in the window says "open under new ownership soon, same great menu" or something similar to that... —DottieHoffmann

2007-08-28 20:46:36   Open again under the new owner as of Monday August 27th 2007, see link to Rochester D and C article above —DottieHoffmann

2008-01-31 11:52:57   I've been getting the soups for as many years as I can remember. Gone from the latest incarnation are the flavorful stocks and long cooking process that are essential to making a flavorful marriage of flavors. I can only speak for the soups I’ve favored in the past so this criticism is not a broad stoke. It just tastes like the chefs have been tossed out of the kitchen in favor of the accountants. —GordonAnderson

2008-12-06 10:44:33   I've only been once since the new owners took over and noticed a very slight downturn in the quality and taste of the soups. The seafood croissant also didn't taste the same.. it's like they put an entire red onion in each dollop of sea meat. Still, the selection of soups and prices here can't be beat. —BatGuano

2008-12-08 09:45:16   Eh, I never made it to Nathans under the old owner, but I recently tried the new Nathans and it was, eh? My vegetable soup was ok. Im allergic to shellfish, but I heard the lobster bisque is pretty good. —MrRochester

2009-03-12 13:33:45   I've been eating Nathans soups and breads since I was a little kid and it seems the quality has become somewhat inconsistent. I had some fantastic vegetable chili (perfect amount of spiciness) about a month ago with hot fresh garlic bread. This week I ate some kinda boring veggie soup and stale/hard wheat bread rolls. This was at 11:30AM during a weekday so everything should have been prepared fresh for the lunch rush. For the parking hassle it's not really worth it anymore unfortunately. —JaimeTe

2009-06-10 13:30:34   I suppose I had higher expectations for this place. First off, the hours are not as listed above. Their summer hours are 10am-3pm Monday through Friday, not open on weekends at all. I went on a Monday around 12:15pm and was pleased to see that they were featuring a BLT soup for one of their Monday soups. They were out of the turkey w/cranberry salad I would have liked in my wrap, so I tried their chicken with bacon and red peppers. The soup had great potential, but was extremely overpowered by salt. The wrap was good, but the chicken salad could have used a little zing. I was disappointed to see that they were not offering any of their dessert soups, as I had seen them featured on their website. In the store, they have an article on display with a feature about the dessert soups, but alas, were either out, or do not offer them anymore. I enjoyed my food enough, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to stop back in to Nathan's. —MerCDotes

2009-09-14 00:12:26   I think nathan's is really a treasure to the area. The counter-service could not be more friendly and the prices are extremely cheap. You can have a good meal for a fiver. My favorites: chicken salad on a croissant and Italian wedding soup. love the outside seating as well... not as packed in like you are on other park ave food spots. —WindyPig