Great broth and excellent combination of gruyere and parmesan cheese. A bit heavy on the parmesan. Well-presented in a square bowl, but no cheese over the side, which I know people often rely upon.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Underneath the breaded “shoestring onions” on top of this one is a great soup! It is difficult to tell from the menu whether or not it will really be gratinée, but indeed it is. They use a nice fontina cheese, and add something to the broth to make it fantastically rich and oniony.
Rating: 8 out of 10
One of the best broths I’ve had! Unfortunately, there was not enough cheese, and what was there was too stuck to the bread. It was a blend of gruyere and parmesean. If they could only get the cheese right, it would have made the top 10!
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
I wasn’t expecting much, especially due to some other reviews I had read. However, this soup was quite good. The main thing that could use improvement is their choice of cheese. It is simply a low cost swiss cheese (not gruyere or anything). There was certainly a lot of it, though. I believe it was the most cheese I had ever seen in a bowl this size. It was also cooked well, and served very hot.
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
I found this place just by doing a Google search for “french onion soup” austin. It turned out to be great! The menu says it is a combination of “Gruyére, Swiss, and Parmesan cheeses”. The Parmesan worried me a bit before I got there, but it actually isn’t overpowering. It ends up being a great combination done right.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Although the broth tasted amazing and the onions were excellent, the cheese was not melted completely. If they had left it in the oven a bit longer, this soup would have been outstanding. The room was dark, so the picture is not very good. What probably looks like browned cheese is actually parsley. So, they will lose some ratings points for not cooking it enough, but I will revist this restaurant soon and re-review with some optimism.
Edit (11/3/07): I revisited, and asked for the cheese to be melted well, and it was very good.
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
Traditional Gruyere, good quantity of cheese, and fairly tasty broth. Located in the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Rating: 7 out of 10
Cheese is emmentaler and parmigiano, and a broth that tastes of sherry and fresh onions. Never stingy on the cheese, and always served hot, this one used to be atop my list. My most recent visit bumped it way down, as the cheese was not fresh, and soup has lost some of its taste.
Update: 2/27/2008: This soup is back in form. Excellent cheese, and great tasting broth. Increased rating and ranking.
Rating 8 of 10
Recommended by several people on the web, and it did not disappoint. Plenty of gruyere, and very sweet onion broth. Located in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, in the conservatory.
Rating: 8 of 10
I’m blogging this as I still sit at the restaurant. 
Interesting soup, as the cheese was an extremely mild gruyere. So mild, that I did not believe it was really gruyere, but the server asked the chef, and says it really was. The cheese did stick to the bread a bit more than I would have liked, but not too much. Also, there was a good amount of cheese.
Rating: 7.5 of 10
Just ate there tonight (5/29/2007), and enjoyed the F.O.S. Doesn’t make my top ten, but it is of high quality. Seemed like my dining companion had more cheese, and also had his cheese more well done, both of which are important to me. The restaurant gets bonus points for having a cheese course, although their “Gouda aged 4 years” tasted more like 1 year to me.
Rating: 7 of 10
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