Hale & Hearty Soup
“my personal favorite is the tomato basil with rice, it's sweet and incredibly flavorful and vegetarian-low fat-non-dairy.”
“My personal favorite is the chicken mediterranean wrap.”
Hale & Hearty Soup
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Fewer selections of soup than most other locations in town. And hardly any seating – plus LINES. Proceed at your own risk, and only if desperate!
Tried the Short Rib Bourguignon for lunch. Enjoyed the braised beef and veggies over the pasta. However, I was really thirsty the rest of the day. A little too much salt for my tastes.
If you like severely overpaying for lumpy, scalding soup, then this is your place!
I'm usually a big fan of Hale & Hearty Soup but this place misses the mark in a few areas. First of all, the lines move a bit slowly. The surrounding stores Potbelly and Pret have longer lines and move much faster.
With the soup, maybe they don't have access to the best equipment being that Rockefeller buildings are pretty old, but they do a terrible job of maintaining soup quality. I went during prime rush hour so it's not like the soups had been sitting around for hours (or maybe they were), but I ordered what was described as a "creamy soup" but when I saw the server pouring my soup, it was far from creamy and instead looked like the she was pouring oatmeal into my cup. It's always a bad sign when the person has to shake the ladle to get the soup into the cup.
So after shelling out $10 for my large soup, I brought it back to my office, which is about a 5 minute walk, and when I opened my soup, it was scalding hot. No wonder the soup was lumpy. Everyone (except this Hale & Hearty location) knows better than to keep soup really hot for a long period of time!
Anyways, I won't be getting soup from here any time soon. They must have also loaded the soup with sodium cause I've felt not great since eating lunch.
Currently $2 credit with LevelUp – they are now using this as their loyalty program (no more bean cards)
I have frequented and do frequent this location of H&H because of it's convenience and location near work. The lines can be really scary looking, as they usually snake into the Rockefeller concourse walkway, but don't fret – it usually takes 5 minutes or so to get to the soup counter.
Soup here is ridiculously overpriced, in my opinion… upwards of $9 for a large specialty soup for some reason just doesn't seem right. I see a lot of people order a small soup for lunch and that's it. Really, does that actually fill you up until dinner? That's like a snack, even with the free piece of carbs.
My go to here, whenever I do come here, is a medium or large tuscan white bean or a three lentil chili. Those usually hold me over until dinner, depending on how hungry I am to begin with.
Customer service in my experience has been okay – no horror stories… yet.
While waiting for our NBC taping show admission, we decided to passed our time in this place . Tried their combo meal- Manhattan chowder with turkey / Parmesan sandwich . Extra cracker goes with the soup . Taste is very hearty . Price is considerably fair for a meal in the city. Location is underground of the famous Rockefeller plaza. Convenient to all. What I did not like though is that there is not much available seats for their customer. They expect them to eat in the central customer area down the hall. I'll try same restaurant next time but different location.
Updating my review and giving them a significant bump because:
1. I really enjoy their Tuscan white bean soup with spinach.
2. Balsamic chicken with avocado sandwich – also excellent.
3. The line at 3pm is non-existent. On the other hand, the winding line out the door into the hallway of Rockefeller Plaza anytime from 12-2pm is impossible.
4. The managers seem to really try to make sure no customer gets missed or is waiting too long.
5. Everyone was wearing gloves.
Raining hard plus a Cold, windy day! Stopped in at the Rockefeller plaza inside to get myself warmed up! First time coming into this shop to try their soup out. I ordered a small tomato soup with chicken and orzo which costed $5!! That was expensive for such a small tiny size! It comes with your choice of bread or cracker! Definitely go with the cracker! The tomato soup was somewhat creamy and on the sweet side! Tasted like there was a lot of sugar in there! The soup I must say was indeed very satisfying, delicious and it warm me up! Next time, just go for the medium size which is only an extra $1.60ish in change!
Great lunch spot. I love the chicken vegetable soup- its really healthy and tasty.
The salads are also great because they're cheap and delicious- its under 5 bucks and includes onion, carrots, cucumber and croutons. Then you pay per additional topping you want which is typical. I like this because regular salads cost this much as other places and they include only lettuce!! They also chop the salad really well which i appreciate