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Great combination of cheeses, and great broth!

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Excellent soup, with great quality gruyere, flavorful broth.  Great mixture of everything!

Rating 8.0 out 0f 10

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I was able to remove the superfluous onion rings from the top of this soup, and enjoy a great soup.  A combination of gruyere and mozzarella sits atop an excellent broth.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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This was the best onion soup I’ve had so far.  It’s combination of Emmentaler and Compté was perfect, the broth was sweet, yet strong, and it was served piping hot.  There’s really nothing I would recommend to change about this soup, except maybe to add a touch more cheese.  Very close to perfection, and now atop the worldwide list.

Rating 9.5 out of 10

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Awesome gruyere, and some of the best broth ever.  There was nothing negative to say about this soup.  Perhaps it’s their use of vidalia onions, or just the quality of the cheese…I don’t know.  It was simply spectacular.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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I’ve always said that Daniel’s should serve onion soup.  I mean the place just “screams” for it.  I had assumed that if they were to add it on the menu, that they would do a great job, and I was right.  Added on 9/2/2009, it’s a veal stock soup, with three cheeses: Gruyere, Mozzarella, and Parmesan.  The broth has a good amount of sherry, which really works well with the stock.  This is a great addition to the already excellent choices at this restaurant, and to my F.O.S. favorites!

 Edit (10/02/09): Having had this several times now, I can say with some certainty that the mozzarella tastes very much like it is *smoked* mozarella.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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French Onion Soup, deconstructed!  Just when I thought I’d seen everything!  The menu is a bit ambiguous, simply saying: “Classic French Onion Soup, Gruyère Grilled Cheese.  I was never expecting to see an actual grilled cheese sandwich alongside the soup.  I wasn’t positive of the proper procedure, so I asked our server, who confirmed that I was to dip the grilled cheese sandwich into the soup.  It was different, but good.  Since I’m not one of those who normally likes to eat the bread along with the cheese in F.O.S., it was a bit disappointing that I couldn’t get around it this time.  As I’ve said before in this blog, “….the bread is just there to hold up the cheese.”  However, I will not take that into account for this soup.  The broth was possibly the best I’ve ever had.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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You may be wondering why there are two pictures above.  Well, the soup came out, and I immediately noticed that the broth was delicious.  I mean really delicious.  However, it was cold.  So, after sending back the soup, a new one was brought out.  Thus, the two different pictures.  I hadn’t tasted the cheese in the original soup (I like to drape hot soup over the cheese before tasting), and I was delighted at the quality of it in the second soup.  Unfortunately, the second soup’s broth was lacking the sweetness of the onions that the first had!  It’s a shame, because this soup could have made the top 10 if you combined the first and the second.  I intend to revisit, to give it another shot.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Great, tasty broth with a perfect blend of gruyere and emmenthaler.

Update: Thanks to Bob Peterson for fixing up the picture for me!

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Excellent quality of cheese and broth.  Great amount of gruyere and provolone, mixed with nicely caramelized onions with sherry and broth.  Very nicely done.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Wonderful broth, and lots of excellent gruyere cheese makes this soup a winner.  The only thing I would consider changing is that there were more croutons than were necessary.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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I was not expecting to find F.O.S. at The Davenport Hotel when I checked in, but noticed it immediately as I was walking towards the elevator.  Even though I was between lunch and a big dinner party, I had to stop and order a bowl.  I hadn’t even read the description when I ordered it, but when I had my first taste, I was flabbergasted!  It was one of the best soups I’ve had.  The description reads:

Washington sweet onions caramelized with sherry in an herb broth topped with a crouton, melted Gruyère cheese & green onions

It really was delicious.  The sherry stood out, and it was really hard to believe it wasn’t a beef-based broth, as it was so incredibly tasty!  I hereby reverse my assumption that all vegetable broths don’t stand a chance.

Rating: 9.0 out of 10

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Great Internet recommendation.  Broth was decent and the cheese was very good.  The server claimed it was “just Swiss”, but I think it was gruyere.  Seemed like everyone there was having the F.O.S.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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I have a history of giving very, very little leeway to soups which venture into non-traditional presentations or ingredients.  But I found this soup to be amazing.  It is described on the menu as “French Onion Soup Baked with Puff Pastry”.  They have been serving the soup this way for over 20 years, and it’s very popular in the Fremont area.  The pastry is delightfully light and flakey.  The cheese is cooked under the pastry, resulting in a sort of “upside down” onion soup.  It was like “bizarro f.o.s.”.  Because the cheese is not exposed when the soup is baked, the cheese cannot become browned and loses some of the flavor potential.  It’s a “double broiler” effect.  The soup is served in a Crème brûlée bowl, and when it comes to the table it looks like a chicken pot pie (as you can see from the picture).  The cheese is a mix of gruyere and standard swiss, and tastes great.

Rating: 8 out of 10

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Finally, an Internet-recommended soup that beat all of my expectations.  Very nice cheese, and very sweet, tasty onions.  We had four of them delivered to the table, and they were very consistently great.

Rating: 9 out of 10

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