You could begin with thick black-bean soup ($1.75 a cup), and go on to oxtail stew.

A cup of black-bean soup and a choice of garden or Caesar salad precedes most entrees.

I like to order black-bean soup and an appetizer, like something small and fried, or mini soft tacos.

They ought to have been selling black-bean soup and mesquite-grilled beef instead of burgers and fries.

Those who do not mind going over the $30 mark should try the rich velvety, but mild, black-bean soup for $1.95.

I feasted on black-bean soup and a bolsa-a sort of pouch made of pastry holding a. spicy ground meat.

Pureed corn and black-bean soups were poured into the same dish in such a way as to form a yellow and black yin-and-yang pattern.

We made pilgrimages to the Cuban restaurant in Tampa where my father had eaten black-bean soup when he was playing ball there 50 years before.

But black-bean soup ($2.75), with a single grilled shrimp, suffered from an advanced case of the blahs.

Hot black-bean soup is a zesty, smoky-flavored winner.