Smokin’ Bowls

Food for the soul! This little gem is perfection. I still can’t get over how good the ‘crème brie and roasted garlic’ soup was about a year and a half ago. I would do anything for this place to be closer to home. Good soup feeds right into your heart, and I LOVE this place.

Best chilli ever! Super friendly staff, amazing soups. Definitely a must, it is worth the trip!

An experience, to say the least, you roll up on this place on your drive in out of Okemo and the location is perfect to satisfy your food cravings. They serve some quality soups, quickly with disposable coffee cups which will require some effort on your part to remove the solids. You also get a piece of baguette to mop up the remnants. It is in a perfect location to stop and they will have you in and out quickly.

Love stopping at this spot on our way to and from Killington! Only wish they stayed open late consistently on Friday nights! The broccoli cheddar is my fave!

Ok foodies you all have heard of the Sinefeld show with the soup nazi. Well let me tell you all this place is not anything like that. This place is soup nirvana on steroids.
The selections of soup and other items is amazing and the flavorful ingredients are magically blended into the most silky of dishes I have come across in a long time.
If you’re in VT and looking for a great meal. Then make sure you hit this place or make it a destination location. You will not be disappointed!

If you just passed this place, turn and go back! I wish it were closer. Doesn’t get much better than this. Worth a stop, worth to taste at least one or a few. Can get pints, quarts– whatever you want. Def try the CHEECH & CHONG CHILI. You’ll most likely be stopping back in for some more to stock up on. It’s THAT good. You’re welcome.

Awesome food! I had a great lobster roll and my wife had the Sloppy Bao. Both were awesome choices. We stopped in on a whim and were really happy we did!

Such a great meal for the road! Loved the Cheech and Chong chili. Oh man. So good! And they even have awesome homemade maple syrup! This is a place I totally recommend to all those that are near by. Or just hop in a plane and get a car and drive there it’s that good!

What a random side-​of-​the-​street stop. Completely awesome and almost necessary after ski lodge food. So what do they have… and no, it’s not that. They have soups, stews, gumbos, chilis… etc. They also have pulled pork sandwiches.
I wanted the chicken and sausage gumbo, but they had run out (this was around 5:30 or so). So my next things I was thinking about were New England clam chowder or the Cheech & Chong chili. I couldn’t decide… so what do you do but get both.
The clam chowder was good, but a little bland. I did like the amount of potato that was in it… cooked to perfection; delicious potato that wasn’t overdone and had a little bit of crunch to it (in a good way).
The chili, wasn’t the chili I was expecting. It was, more or less, just a good wholesome chili with stewed tomatoes, ground beef and chili stuff. It was good and definitely hardy.
A single serving is 16oz for $ 8…filling! I really shouldn’t have bought two, but I was conflicted. My friends got the pulled pork sandwich, which was good, but really not the best pulled pork sandwich I’d ever had. The sauce was a bit sweet, not so tangy… the pork wasn’t as «melty» as it could have been… more dry… even with the sauce.
TLDR: great place to stop for to-​go on the way home (there’s no sitting). Literally just a roadside stand, but they do have a port-​a-​potty behind them for those who need to go.

West African Peanut Soup is amazing. Great quick stop and easy to get to off I-​91. My new favorite stop besides VT Country Deli. Cash only!

While driving by on the way to Killington this is a must stop. The soups are delicious. Our group ordered the New England clam chowder which was smooth and creamy and one of the best I’ve had in quite sometime. Also ordered was the Cheech and Chong chilli which was another group favorite. The only soup that didn’t hit it out of the park taste wise was the West African Peanut soup. It was on the thinner side consistency wise and when compared to the other two just didn’t match up. We are already looking forward to our next drive up to the mountains so we can get another cup!

We still like Smokin Bowls: they make some really tasty soups. But we’ve dropped them by one star as a result of our experiences over the last year. Problems: schedules, absences and delays. SCHEDULES: They are not always open when they say they will be (and if you’re driving a few miles to get there, it makes a difference), and other times you may find them open at an unexpected time. Not very helpful, and the website seems to get it right only about half the time. ABSENCES: They frequently — the last five drop-​bys in our experience — run out of many soups rather early in the day. Their chalkboard rarely reflects the supplies on hand. Annoying and disappointing. DELAYS: When there’s a line of any sort, everything moves very slowly. If it’s cold out, the lines seem to move extra slowly. Annoying. Honestly, it weren’t for the fact that they make such darned good soups, we’d give ‘em up.

October 16, 2014 I stopped and bought 2 (lobster rolls). Not even close the worst ones I have ever had. I got through ½ and couldn’t finish. I don’t think it was lobster, I think it was some fake fish mixture. And Lots of mayonnaise. sorry first and last. Lost 32.00

Quality ingredients with unique recipes. Sweet potato corn chowder is vegetarian and delish.

Great little place to stop by after skiing. We got the Chili ($ 8), the New England Clam Chowder ($ 8), Split Pea with Bacon ($ 6), and the Mushroom Bisque ($ 7). The Chili was hearty and full of meat but not as spicy as I’d like. The chowder was rich and creamy, pretty perfect. The Split Pea was the only disappointment. My husband actually thought we were served the wrong item as it wasn’t as pea-​green as he expected and the flavor was indistinguishable. The Mushroom Bisque was rich and «meaty» in a mushroomy-​way, so much so that a mushroom-​hater even liked it.
Service was quick. There was a short line when we arrive. The lady in the booth was very friendly.

Nothing like a good bowl to end your day of skiing. This is a really cool place situated in an incredibly convenient location. It’s a small shack directly across the street from the on ramp to route 91. So people need to drive past it on their way back from the slopes. Why wouldn’t I stop? Great chili, great soups. Only problem is that it is a little expensive, but you just spent the day skiing so I’m sure you have the money to splurge on some soup. I’ll be sure to stop in again soon.

The soup here was delicious and lived up to the hype of the other reviews posted on Unilocal.We got the chorizo corn chowder which was very spicy and great and we also got the chili which was also very good. We did have to wait in line for a good 10 minutes and it seems like they need to put a faster process in place to move the line along a little faster. I was pleased to find that they also take both cash and credit. Overall, definitely a good find and a perfect meal for after skiing.

There was a line about 10 people deep for this place. I really enjoy roadside trucks/​shacks especially in rural areas so I stopped for some soups. I had the beef stew ($ 8.50), and the mushroom soup ($ 6.50). Both were OK not fantastic. The soups come in a 16oz coffee cup which is a good touch considering all of their business is either getting on the interstate for a long ride home or driving 30+ minutes to Ludlow or killington. They are only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday along with Monday holidays.
So overall not a bad place to stop and get some soup for the road. The main thing keeping me from going every time I go by there on the way to go skiing is the relatively long wait for something as easy as dumping soup in a cup. Waited on line for about 10 minutes.

I wish I lived closer to this soup mecca, because it is PHENOMENAL.
I saw the tiny shack right off of the highway as I was en route to a weekend VT getaway, and knew at that moment I would be stocking up on the way home.
A few days later, right before we jumped on the highway, I stopped to gather some soup. (It’s Vermont. I like to pretend I’m picking it from bushes like berries.) Two of my favorite things about this place are that they have several vegetarian and vegan offerings, and they allow you to sample soups before you commit. Great customer service wins me over every time.
I chose the West African Peanut in a 16oz. cup. It was the perfect blend of peanut and almost a tomato taste, with maybe some pureed beans, and an unfamiliar but extremely palatable spice blend. It had a great mouth feel to it, and was an all around spectacular choice.
The boy chose the Cheech and Chong Chili, which he said had a distinct sweetness to it, and he adored it. The bread offered with both soups was soft and delicious.
We got a quart of the Butternut Squash Bisque to bring home, and in true VT fashion, it was ladled into an eco friendly, reusable glass canning quart. They also offer a ½ gallon glass jug, which I will get next time just because I can, and because the soup is truly that good. The bisque was delightfully light and well seasoned. Definitely the best butternut soup I’ve had to date.
Honestly, the soup was so good that I am thinking of making the two hour drive in a couple of weeks, to go «hiking» aka soup-​fetching!

If there’s one thing that can win this girls heart, it’s soup. Soup on hot days, soup on cold days… if it starts with an ‘S’ and ends with an ‘oup’, I’m there.
On our way back from upstate NH, to my surprise, we pulled over and low and behold there was my dream, standing in front of me, in the form of a little shack selling soup on the side of the road.
Grey, overcast, cold. The makings of a perfect backdrop for eating soup.
On the side of the little shack, there’s a chalkboard that lists the soups up for grabs for the day, one of which was a vegan option, which was pretty unexpected. Apparently, the chili is to die for (someone actually stopped on his way to MA just to get the chili) but there was none available. I went for the next best thing, the Shephards Pie Soup.
WHAT?
Yes, you heard right. Shephards Pie Soup. Even though the salt content in the mashed potatoes sent my non existant high blood pressure issues into the heavens, it was still a rather tasty
literally was Shephards Pie in a cup. A mixture of ground beef and corn topped with a load of mashed potatoes.
The soup came with a (could have been much larger) piece of bread and I ordered a soda.
To the side of the shack was a man selling free range eggs, and home made salsa, both of which we ended up purchasing as well. Since we’re a fan of mega hot salsas, the guy was able to add an extra spoonful or three to the mix to make it an almost unbearable heat.
Even though this place is in VT, you bet your bucket of soup that I’ll be back any and all times I happen to be in the area.
Mmmmm…soup!!!