Ladle & Leaf Information

Ladle & Leaf is a family-owned food company with two sides to its business: a beloved Bay Area restaurant brand and a West Coast co-manufacturing operation, both built on the same 25 years of expertise in making great soup. On the retail side, we operate restaurants across the Bay Area, including locations at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco International Airport. Every day, our restaurants serve soups, salads, grain bowls, and sandwiches to guests looking for fresh, globally inspired food made with quality ingredients. It is work we have been doing since 1999, when we opened our first location as San Francisco Soup Company. On the wholesale side, we put that same culinary depth to work for our partners. Ladle & Leaf produces custom soups, broths, sauces, and prepared foods for retail private label, foodservice, healthcare, education, and travel customers. Partners bring a recipe, a concept, or a flavor target, and our culinary and operations teams take it from kitchen sample to finished, shelf-ready product. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we serve West Coast customers with shorter lead times and lower freight costs than national co-manufacturers. And because every recipe we scale has already been proven daily in our own restaurants, our partners get production backed by real-world consumer feedback. Whether you are stopping in for lunch or looking for a culinary-driven co-manufacturing partner on the West Coast, we would love to connect.