The South Side Soup Contest is an annual fundraising event brought to you by The Brashear Association and the South Side Chamber of Commerce. Launched in 2005, The Contest began as a way to showcase all that our community has to offer, generate more foot traffic in local businesses, and serve up delicious soup. Today, it has become a celebrated and eagerly-anticipated event!

The 17th Annual South Side Soup Contest is your chance to sample some of the neighborhood’s best restaurants while enjoying the vibrant business community of South Side. Twenty South Side Chefs each will donate fifteen to eighteen gallons of delicious, secret recipe soup to be tasted at local businesses along the soup contest route on the South Side. After the tastings, soup tasters will text votes for the people’s choice best soup, best vegetarian soup, most unique soup, and best host! Votes will be tallied, and trophies will be delivered to the Chefs with the winning soup!

The 2023 South Side Soup Contest is proud to feature the culinary talents of our diverse neighborhood. Our 2023 restaurants are:

Cancillas Sicilian Kitchen & Pizzeria
Carmella's Plates & Pints
Carson City Saloon
Cilantro & Ajo
Cupka's Cafe 2
Dive Bar & Grille
Doce Taqueria
Double Wide Grill
Emiliano's Mexican Restaurant
La Palapa Mexican Cuisine
Le Petit Café & Grille
Mario's South Side Saloon
OTB Bicycle Cafe
Piper's Pub
Sly Fox Brewery & Pub
Sultry F & B
The Pub Chip Shop
The Smiling Moose
The Urban Tap
Twelve Whiskey Barbecue

Each year, the Soup Contest pairs neighborhood restaurants with local businesses, showcasing all that the South Side has to offer. Soup tasters enjoy soups while exploring some of our neighborhood’s most unique establishments. Our 2023 soup host stops are:

All Things Pittsburgh
ASCEND/Velum Fermentation
Buddy's Brews on Carson
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh–South Side
Copies at Carson
Dollar Bank
Farmers National Bank
First National Bank
Five Star Dentistry
Mary, Queen of Peace Parish
NOLAC
Ormsby Recreation Center
Pittsburgh Primary Eyecare
Red Roses Floral Shop
Rothrock’s Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy
The Flats on Carson
The Milkshake Factory
Thick Bikes
Vapor Galleria
VFW Post 6675