It's the season for matzo ball soup, and today seems quite the appropriate day to pick some up, given the dreary weather. Eater has updated last year's matzo ball map with newer places, special offers and some less traditional picks (matzo ball soup with truffles, anyone?).
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Hot Hot Soup: Eater's 2014 Matzo Ball Heat Map

DGS Delicatessen
Want to slurp matzo ball soup in a hot, trendy new restaurant? DGS serves a soup accented with duck schmaltz and featuring a solo, giant matzo ball. There's also a special bone marrow Matzo Ball Soup with ginger, scallion, and mustard oil, on the restaurant's $45 "Modern Seder" Passover menu.
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The Carving Room
Carving Room is more known for its sandwiches, but matzo ball soup is on the menu, too.
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Celebrity Delly
Celebrity Delly's version, an Eater favorite, is super salty and packed with noodles. The restaurant sells hundreds of orders of the stuff during Passover.
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Chutzpah Real New York Deli
This Fairfax favorite takes pride in its classic take on matzo ball soup.
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Loeb's New York Deli
Downtown institution Loeb's may have moved locations a few years ago, but the matzo ball soup remains on the menu.
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Max's Kosher Cafe and Marketplace
For something a little on the lighter side at Wheaton's Max's Kosher, there's matzo ball soup for $4.95.
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Parkway Deli & Restaurant
Parkway's version features chicken stock, pieces of chicken, veggies and egg noodles, with two matzo balls. Customers can also order it without the matzo if they're just craving chicken soup.
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City Diner
City Diner in Falls Church is known to serve matzo ball soup, but it doesn't have a permanent place on the menu.
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Woodside Delicatessen
Get some in-house, or order matzo ball soup by the quart or gallon from Woodside Deli (multiple locations).
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Wagshal's Deli
Wagshal's (multiple locations) version of the soup is chock full of matzo balls and veggies.
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Rosa Mexicano
They're not for the purists, but at Rosa Mexicano (multiple locations), customers can experience the marrow-matzo ball soup, a pozole with chipotle-marrow matzo balls, during Passover season. It's become a tradition in itself.
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The Star and Shamrock
Bubbie's Matzoh Ball Soup ($3.50/$6) is available at the Irish/Jewish pub seasonally.
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Bub and Pop's
Matzoh ball soup is often the soup of the day at this beloved sandwich shop.
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Commissary
Chef Ben Tenner's family recipe for soup will be featured in a multi-course Seder menu ($28) or a la carte for $7.
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BLT Steak
BLT Steak presents a high-end take on Matzoh ball soup this year made with chicken consume and black truffles. It's $12.
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