Soupa Café, a boutique soup eatery located in the heart of Cape Town's CBD — Thibault Square — is launching in July 2009. Founded by entrepreneur and soup lover, Darryn Brick, Soupa will be reviving the cities soup culture just in time for the chilly winter months.

Soupa Café is taking the soup experience to a new level by creating something Soupa natural. The Soupa team have put together a menu that will cater to all tastes, from the more traditional to gourmet soups, bisques, desert soup and even a breakfast soup.

Developed in consultation with well-known South African foodie, Justine Drake and the team at Source Management, the Soupa menu, which includes old favourites like Grandma's Chicken Soup and Hearty Minestrone, encourages customers to be creative and design their own soups by adding toppings ranging from crème fraiche and homemade croutons to cottage cheese and chilli.

You can eat-in, take-out or make use of the Soupa inner-city office delivery service. Another unique and innovative offering is the Soupa curbside pick-up service, where you don’t need to worry about finding parking in the CBD, a member of the Soupa team will be waiting on the sidewalk to hand you your order as you drive past.

Should the conventional bowl or cup not satisfy your soup craving, Soupa Café has invented the Soupa Bunny — a soup bowl made out of bread and filled with steaming soup.

Wraps, sandwiches and salads are also served the Soupa way, ranging from R28.95 they include fresh, seasonal ingredients and a selection of tasty toppings like chermoula roast veg, spicy beef strips and basil marinated mozzarella.

Organic coffee, freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices as well as Soupa smoothies are made to order.

Soupa Interior Designer, Manuela Candido describes the eatery as an "urban hearth, decorated in an inviting mix of colours reflecting the ethos of nourishment. We have used a harmonious mix of modern and eco-friendly materials to create a haven in the inner city".

"The Soupa kitchen has been designed to add to the customer experience and it should never take longer than two and a half minutes for soup orders to be ready," says co-founder Darryn Brick.

"Making Soupa the perfect lunch time stop for the hasty professional, hungry tourist, time-starved parent — or just plain Soup Lover," he concludes.

Opening hours are 7am–5pm, Monday to Friday. All soups come in 350ml, 500ml or 1 litre portions. Sip It, Slurp It and Dunk It with your choice of a fresh cocktail roll or low-GI health bread with every soup order.