Dishes /
Dish
French onion soup
Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.
On confirmed menus
Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.
- 4 places in 4 towns: Valatie, Indian Lake, Ogdensburg, Hamilton
- Regions: North Country/Adirondacks (2), Capital Region (1), Central NY (1)
- Menu sections it’s listed under: Lunch; Soups & Salads (1), Soup + Salads (1), Soup and Salads (1), Starters (1)
Based on 4 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.
Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.
- FRENCH ONION SOUP Fresh
- French Onion Soup Bowl Crock Fresh
- FRENCH ONION SOUP Fresh
- French Onion Soup Fresh
What it is
From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.
- Cuisine: French
- Kind of dish: soup
- Also listed as: baked onion soup, browned onion soup, french onion soup croutons, french onion soup cup, french onion soup gratinee, onion soup, onion soup au fromage, onion soup au gratin
On old menus
From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).
Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:
- 1949 · “French Onion Soup” at Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Lake · library record ↗
- 1956 · “French Onion Soup Au Gratin .70” at Persian Terrace, Syracuse · library record ↗
- 1963 · “French Onion Soup- Croutons” at Arlington Hotel, Binghamton · library record ↗
Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.
Related dishes
Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.