Cold Weather Playbook

Maeve Donnelly

@jpslowroaster

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My running list of soups that justify leaving a warm bathtub or a fourth-quarter defensive breakdown on TV. Tight routes: clear broth, real heat, decent seating for when your knees are shot from rec league.* *Hydration counts. Beer with chowder is still hydration.

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Name	Neighborhood	Soup Order	Cuisine	Broth Style	Price Range	Best Time	Crowd Level	My take	Address	City
1Soup Shack	Jamaica Plain	Khao Soi (or Spicy Miso Ramen when I pretend to cross-train)	Thai / Japanese / Vietnamese mash-up	Rich coconut curry or miso pork, both with actual backbone	$$	Cold weeknight, early dinner before Centre St gridlock	Steady; peak hours feel like a full-court press	Closest thing JP has to a hot tub in a bowl. Noodles with chew, broth with agenda. I carbo-load here before yelling about pick-and-roll coverage.	779 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130	Boston, MA
2Pho Viet's	Allston	Pho Dac Biet, extra herbs, don’t be shy with the lime	Vietnamese	Long-simmered beef, clean and star-anise loud	$–$$	Late lunch after surviving Allston Christmas runs	Busy but fast; food-court tempo offense	Textbook pho. No theatrics, just proper broth and noodles that don’t go limp in the fourth.* *Wish I could say the same for certain second units.	1095 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215	Boston, MA
3Hokkaido Ramen Santouka	Back Bay	Tokusen Toroniku Shio Ramen, all the fatty pork like it’s leg day for my arteries	Japanese	Tonkotsu shio, long-simmered pork bones, milky and dense	$$$	Mid-afternoon cold snap, post–Newbury Street errand sprint	Line at prime time, manageable off-peak	This is the bowl I picture when I say ‘ramen’ out loud. Broth that coats the spoon, noodles with bounce, chashu that gives up like a bad zone defense.	66 Hereford St, Boston, MA 02115	Boston, MA