What Is The Difference Between Tomato Soup And Tomato Bisque

A tomato bisque is basically a cream of tomato soup meaning a smooth thick soup of which the main ingredient is tomato.

A tomato soup is any kind of soup of which the main ingredient is tomato. But if one has a shellfish allergy i d ask your server if a bisque has shellfish just to be safe. Generally speaking a bisque has now come to mean a soup with heavy cream in it. It could be either chunky or smooth thick or thin and may contain cream or not or olive oil.

Bisque is of french origin and it commonly used to describe a highly seasoned and creamy french soup that is made from the strained broth of crustaceans such as crab shrimp crayfish and lobster. A bisque technically is a shellfish based soup so lobster bisque my favorite is more of a tomato bisque than tomato bisque. Tomato bisque is a wonderfully rich tangy creamy soup but still a soup. In this conclusion that we get is the only difference between a tomato bisque and soup in modern usage is whether it has cream.