10
Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American
Price: $$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Not Sure
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Not Sure
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Comments: Some desserts do contain sugar.
Rating Created by:
Sara English
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Location & Contact
199 Main St
Hackettstown, NJ
Soups on Main follow traditional cooking methods, use simple, real, local, and organic ingredients. They source all ingredients from their farm (FLP Acres) or other local farms with excellent farming practices. They serve up real sourdough bread that is baked fresh daily. They are completely transparent in all of their ingredients and have a book on the counter with the full list of every ingredient in every menu item. Seed oil free and use stainless steel cookware. They do not thicken soups with flour products. Theyuse more of the base ingredient (the vegetable) and puree them into thickness. Those suffering from gluten and/or wheat/flour sensitivities can enjoy savory soup without concern.