"The soup of the day at Midtown Cafe has to be the most benched player of all time. For 30 years, people have been coming in, sitting down, and saying “I’ll start with the lemon artichoke soup.” There’s a reason for that: you don’t mess with a winner, and this absolutely is. The ingredients are simple — artichokes and lemons blended with creamy chicken broth — yet they create something that’s more than the sum of its parts: a tongue-tingling wakeup call to begin a meal." - Ashley Brantley, Jackie Gutierrez-Jones