Instead I made a snappy chilled avocado soup, sharpened with buttermilk and yogurt and textured with chopped herbs and slivered radishes.

The chilled avocado soup was forgettable.

The Nahuatl ahuacatl can be compounded with other words, as in ahuacamolli, meaning avocado soup or sauce, from which the Spanish word guacamole derives.

The avocado soup was mild and the service pleasant, but the red snapper a l'orange was so cloyingly buttery I could barely eat more than a few bites.

In recent weeks the dinner of soup or salad, entree and dessert has featured dishes like chilled avocado soup and grilled red snapper.

Chilled avocado soup, mushroom salad and Dover sole are featured.

Try the fantastic bean and avocado soup, or ceviche.

"I made her avocado soup last night."

Heating the avocado soup was not just a gaffe but a sin, a grievous assault on Arden's sense of comity.

A velvety cold avocado soup is rich enough that a recipe for four serves six, though it needs a splash of lime to punch it up.