One of L.A.’s best soup & salad combos

By Written by Dana Nichols on April 9th, 2010

L.A. girls can’t help it; we’re heat-seekers. Perpetually cold, we clutch venti mint teas and cling to bowls of hot soup like it’s our job. It’s all in the name of warmth. Even on sunny spring days the recently re-opened Doughboys in West L.A. is making a business out of serving one of my favorite soup and salad combos in the city: 15 salad selections, 11 soup selections, combined any way for $11.95. Plus, because no one should have to leave his or her sidewalk table without trying the restaurant’s homemade bread, the menu says the S & S combo comes with “our grilled French baguette bread.” Mine didn’t come out with the order, but I borrowed some slices from the side of my friend’s Warm Portabello Mushroom and Pancetta salad with potatoes (pictured) and we were equally happy. Triangles of crusty-on-the-outside bread dipped in my huge bowl of spinach-heavy Stracciatella soup next to a heap of Medditeraneo salad – takes the April chill off. Warms the soul.