{"id":488934,"date":"2026-10-08T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488934\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:02:24","slug":"souplantation-is-coming-back-to-southern-california-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488934\/","title":{"rendered":"Souplantation Is Coming Back to Southern California in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">Souplantation, the legendary all-you-can-eat soup and salad buffet that <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/covid-downturn-souplantation-to-permanently-close-all-locations\/6163862\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed all locations in 2020<\/a>, announced it will return in 2027. The restaurant will reopen its first California location at its former Fountain Valley location on Talbert Avenue near Newhope Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">A representative for Sweet Tomatoes, Souplantation\u2019s sibling company, confirmed the restaurant\u2019s Southern California return to Eater under the name Souplantation, not Sweet Tomatoes. \u201cWe are thrilled to be coming back to California, where the love and demand for Souplantation has never faded,\u201d the representative wrote in the statement. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to welcome back so many familiar faces and create new memories with our guests when we reopen in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">SF Gate reports the parent company of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/food\/article\/souplantation-california-return-22464925.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016<\/a>; the restaurants were ultimately acquired by private investment firm Perpetual Capital Partners. In 2020, Souplantation announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/operations\/sweet-tomatoes-not-only-back-its-growing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closing all 97 restaurants<\/a>, including 44 in California. During the pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-53410931\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed to self-serve restaurants<\/a> as a potential health risk, pushing the chain, which started in 1978, to close. Many of these vacant Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes locations remain empty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes\u2019 popularity never faded \u2014 and even spawned a dupe in Rancho Cucamonga called Soup n\u2019 Fresh, which debuted in a former Souplantation in 2024. Immediately, the restaurant saw long waits as Souplantation fans lined up for baked potatoes, blueberry muffins, and all-you-can-eat soup. To meet the demand, Soup \u2018n Fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2025\/2\/18\/24367562\/soup-n-fresh-souplantation-dupe-restaurant-opening-chino-hills-southern-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened a second location<\/a> in 2025, in Chino Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 va4xi8a e8cira1\">Souplantation initially teased its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeM1lsigAp4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return on Instagram<\/a>, posting a video that showed different clips of California. The comments section was immediately filled with endless requests from those nostalgic for Yankee Clipper clam chowder, beef chili, or tuna tarragon pasta salad to reopen near them. Until Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes return to California, the company continues to operate locations in Tucson, Arizona, and in Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Souplantation, the legendary all-you-can-eat soup and salad buffet that closed all locations in 2020, announced it will return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,8472],"class_list":["post-488934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-la-restaurant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}