Chicken noodle soup

[AVinSF]

desperate for good chicken noodle soup in SF (Mom and I are sick). Suggestions, please? Thanks, AV

[pane]

Probably too late for the OP, but this thread was on my mind today as I was headed home from work with a cold.

For my money, the tortilla soup at Chilango is one of the best value lunches in the Upper Market area. It's $6 for a quart of soup with a clamshell of freshly fried tortilla strips; I usually split the soup in half and eat it for two meals.

The soup includes tender, fork-shredded chicken, soft lumps of cheese and avocado, and a few vegetables in a warming chicken-tomato broth. Not exactly a chicken noodle soup, but hits the spot.

[Civil Bear]

How about the Pho Ga at Turtle Tower.

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Turtle Tower Restaurant
631 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Turtle Tower Restaurant
5716 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94121

Turtle Tower
501 6th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

[Melanie Wong]

There's a third Turtle Tower too, haven't been yet.

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Turtle Tower
501 6th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

[bigwheel042]

It's in SOMA at 6th and Brannan. I thought the pho ga there was fine but prefer the Geary location, though mostly for non-chow-related reasons - it's much cleaner than the Tenderloin one and feels a little cozier than the SOMA one, considerations that become more important when you're sick and in need of comfort food.

[mlutsky]

I go to the chicken soup at St. Francis fountain when I'm stressed. Max's Diner matzoh ball soup never disappoints.

[goldangl95]

Whole Foods makes one for moments of real desperation. It needs doctoring up, as on its own its rather lacking in flavor. The ingredients are good though - plentiful chicken and noodles - the flavors are just very bland.

[wolfe]

You can't always get noodles and besides it's the bubbemycetin that's the active ingredient.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/747267

[pamf]

The OP in that old thread can be happy again because it looks like Soup Freaks has survived and re-opened across the street from their old location near Mission and New Montgomery (closer to Mission and Third now).

http://www.soupfreaks.com/soupfreaks....

I don't know what that poster had against SF Soup Co., but I think their "Grandma's" chicken soup is a pretty good bowl of soup and they have lots of locations around SF.