Leslie Elston, founder of Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop, with a selection of his soups.
📷: Julia O’Laughlin
When the seasons start to change, and you feel a chill in the air, it’s a shared universal feeling that nothing is more comforting than a nice warm bowl of soup. Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop understands this comfort and takes it to the next level with fresh ingredients to make soup that not only comforts your soul but heals your body too.
Maraq Values Using Fresh Ingredients
Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop all began in 2017 when Leslie Elston and his wife were battling high blood pressure, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and weight gain. The salads and nutrient bars just weren’t cutting it, and the taste and cost weren’t worth the purchase. This inspired Leslie to turn to fresh, local ingredients to create tasty, healthy soup. Soon after incorporating his creations into his and his wife’s daily diet, Leslie had to share the resulting health benefits and weight loss.
Maraq’s ensures a delicious and nutritious meal by using fresh vegetable broth and light herbs/seasonings with no GMOs, no additives, no dairy, and no gluten. Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop believes in ingredient transparency and wants to be sure that the customers are able to read and pronounce what’s written on each soup’s nutrition label. Being one of the few fresh, frozen vegetable soup vendors in the market, Maraq Gourmet Soup strives for excellence and customer satisfaction by connecting with local farmers for quality ingredients.
9 varieties of Maraq’s Gourmet Soups. Clockwise from top: Beet, Red Pepper, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Butternut Squash, Broccoli and Portobello, Carrot, Spinach, and Tomato Basil.
📷: Julia O’Laughlin
The Nutritional Benefits of Maraq’s Soup
Maraq Gourmet Soup serves both flavor and nutrition all in one bowl to benefit your health and happiness. Steer away from the traditional canned soups that have added preservatives and GMOs and turn to Maraq’s fresh frozen soup to truly experience nutritional benefits. The amount of fresh vegetables in each quart provides an easy, tasty way to supply your body with the vitamins and nutrients it needs, such as iron, calcium, magnesium, fiber and more. Going above and beyond with unique soup flavors and ingredients, Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop supplies your taste palette with variety and fuels your body with nourishment.
Leslie holding his first soup he created for Maraq’s Gourmet Soup Shop, Spinach.
📷: Julia O’Laughlin
Why Incorporate Soup into your Daily Diet
With Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop now coming to Fairfax Market, Maraq’s is excited to expand their homemade soup into a local market. Through this partnership, Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop will be able to reach more customers and inform them about the ways they can experience the benefits of healthy gourmet soup. From having a fresh frozen soup as a full meal or a tasty side to a nutritious dish, Maraq’s dairy-free and gluten free recipes have something for everyone. Whether you're looking to tackle remedies for high cholesterol, blood pressure, weight loss, or a substitution for low iron, minerals, and fiber, Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop caters to a wide variety of health concerns to cover all dietary needs.
Maraq Gourmet Soups produces their soups out of Cleveland Central Kitchen’s Incubator, a space where entrepreneurs can develop, test and launch their craft food concept in a co-shared commercial kitchen facility.
📷: Julia O’Laughlin
Be sure to grab a quart of Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop’s fresh, homemade frozen soup at Fairfax Market and experience the tasty health benefits these locally made soups have to offer. Originating from six original flavors, there’s a new favorite soup flavor waiting to be discovered. Enhance your nutritional life and redefine your healthy lifestyle with Maraq Gourmet Soup Shop.