They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples and pine nuts.

The special, a chestnut soup with caramel ice cream, was rather gritty, though creative as a sweet take on an item that is normally savory.

Many other dishes - including roasted chestnut soup, a rib-eye steak and seared scallops with braised oxtail - don't wear specific ethnic tags.

Luc Dendievel of Bayard's has a chestnut soup with apples, leeks and carrots.

Delicious pumpkin and chestnut soup and spicy Thai-style lemon grass soup are the hits of the moment.

Fritz Brenner, the chef and house- keeper, was in the kitchen making chestnut soup.

His first course is a chestnut soup.

This chestnut soup is absolutely different.

The true holiday zealot will probably be unable to resist serving a roasted chestnut soup (or perhaps a green Jell-O Christmas tree) before the roast.

We've managed to discover chestnut soup.