Panera Bread Soups Menu 2026

Panera prices 9 soups nationally: Broccoli Cheddar, Cream of Tomato, Chicken Noodle, Chicken & Wild Rice, French Onion, Black Bean Soup, Mexican Street Corn Chowder, Mac & Cheese and Bacon Mac & Cheese. Panera counts Mac and Cheese with the soups because it is served from the same station in the same three sizes. Vegetarian Autumn Squash is no longer among them; we found it priced at 0 of the 2,239 cafes we checked.

$5.57 for any of the soups. Mac and Cheese is $6.38 and Bacon Mac and Cheese is $6.99. Those are averages across the 2,239 US bakery-cafes in our snapshot, so your own cafe may sit a little either side.

A Sourdough Bread Bowl on its own is $3.06. Ordering a soup served in one costs $3.32 to $3.72 more than the cup of the same soup, so a bread bowl of Broccoli Cheddar runs $9.29. The bread adds 650 calories, which is more than most of the soups contain.

A bowl of Broccoli Cheddar is $8.60 against $5.57 for the cup, so it costs $3.03 more for about half as much soup again: 280 calories in the cup, 420 in the bowl. The two macs are the exception. Their bowls are double portions rather than one-and-a-half, and they are priced accordingly.

Black Bean Soup, at 90 calories for a cup and flagged gluten conscious, vegan and vegetarian. The heaviest is Bacon Mac & Cheese at 530. If you are watching the number, the size matters more than the soup does: a bread bowl adds 650 calories whatever you put in it.

There is one Panera vegan soup: Black Bean Soup. Cream of Tomato, Mexican Street Corn Chowder and Mac & Cheese are flagged vegetarian. The rest contain chicken, beef broth or bacon. These are Panera's own menu flags rather than a certification.

Panera does not certify any soup as gluten free, because the same kitchen handles bread all day. Black Bean Soup and Mexican Street Corn Chowder carry Panera's "gluten conscious" flag as a cup or a bowl, which means the recipe has no gluten ingredient but the cafe cannot rule out contact. The flag does not carry over to the bread bowl version, which is the sourdough round itself. If you have coeliac disease, that distinction matters. For the full picture see our allergen menu guide.

None of the cups are. Panera puts the high sodium flag on 6 of the 9 bread bowls, so on this part of the menu it is very largely the bread carrying it rather than the soup. The two macs are the exception: their bowls are flagged as well. If sodium is the thing you are watching, the size you choose matters more than which soup you choose.

Panera does not publish sales figures, but Broccoli Cheddar is the safe answer. Panera has sold it since the 1990s and it is the most widely stocked soup on the menu: we found it priced at 2,233 of the 2,239 US bakery-cafes we checked, so very nearly every cafe in the country carries it.

Broccoli Cheddar is the usual answer and the consistency is why: it is thick enough to sit in the bread rather than soak through it. French Onion works for the same reason, with the melted cheese sealing the top. Cream of Tomato is the one to avoid, because it is thin and acidic and softens the base before you are finished.

Yes. Group tubs serve 6 to 8 and run $22.39 to $29.39 depending on the soup, with the two macs at the top of that range. They are ordered through catering, and the notice your cafe needs is shown when you order.

Yes, through the Panera app for Rapid Pick-Up or delivery, and through DoorDash and Uber Eats. Soups travel well in their sealed containers. Bread bowls are the one thing that does not: the base softens, so it is worth ordering that size only for collection.