Jambo Café garnered the Best Soup Award for the third consecutive year at Saturday's 18th annual Souper Bowl.

The event drew about 1,200 soup tasters, a record-breaker for the event, and raised $80,000 to benefit the hungry through The Food Depot. The attendees voted for their favorite fare from among dozens of offerings, all prepared by staff from Santa Fe restaurants.

Jambo Café's winning soup was a basil-ginger roasted butternut squash soup with crab. The soup also won awards for Best Seafood Soup and Best Decorated Table.

The Pantry Restaurant received the Best Cream Soup prize for its creamy green chile chicken soup. The Best Savory Soup honor went to Tune-Up Cafe for its tortilla chicken lime with cream cheese and avocado. Santa Fe Capitol Grill captured the Best Vegetarian Soup honor for its cream of zucchini entry.

Guests took home Souper Bowl cookbooks in the form of three-ring binders with soup recipes from many Santa Fe chefs. The cookbooks also are available from The Food Depot website, www.thefooddepot.org, for $15. New recipes will be offered for purchase each year.

At the event, Food Depot Executive Director Sherry Hooper, Santa Fe Mayor David Coss and Congressman Ben Ray Luján announced expansion plans for the food bank, made possible in part by a $1 million donation by Food Depot Board President Barbara Hall. Hall is challenging the community to raise matching funds for her gift.

The following restaurants competed in Souper Bowl XVIII: Anasazi Restaurant; Andiamo! Italian Trattoria; Blue Corn Café & Brewery Southside; Bon Appetit at the Institute for American Indians Arts; Cafe Pasqual's; Dinner for Two; Jambo Café; Kingston Residence of Santa Fe; La Casa Sena; La Plazuela at La Fonda on the Plaza; Luminaria Restaurant at the Inn & Spa at Loretto; Nath's Specialty Catering; Osteria d'Assisi; Palacio Café, The Pantry Restaurant; Pizza Etc.; Plaza Café Southside; Pueblo Deli; Red Sage at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino; Rio Chama; Santa Fe Bar & Grill; Santa Fe Capitol Grill; Santa Fe Steamer; Tune-Up Cafe; Turquoise Trail Bar & Grill at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino; Whole Foods Market; and Whole Hog Café.