Check out our media coverage below!
Devin Byrnes, New Bedford’s soup man, on starting out, weathering COVID-19, and paying it forward
4/20/22
Chef Devin Byrnes has been serving hungry diners at Destination Soups in downtown New Bedford since 2008. He opened in a small storefront now occupied by People’s Pressed juice shop and cafe, and in 2012 moved about a block up Union Street to a larger location that previously housed a sandwich shop called On a Roll.
Faces Of New Bedford #94: Devin Byrnes
3/17/17
Meet Devin Byrnes, 42-year-old cook and owner of Destination Soups.
Devin grew up in Salem, MA and always found himself cooking, from a young age and through high school in restaurants. He located to New Bedford to attend the University of Massachusetts and fell in love. He never felt that Salem was a home to him, and got that sense while in New Bedford right away.
GNB Voc-Tech students tour downtown New Bedford restaurants as part of ‘tiny kitchen tour’
5/23/22
Devin Byrnes, owner of Destination Soups, speaks about making soups with Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School sophomore culinary arts students during their “tiny kitchen tour” visiting with entrepreneurs and food service professionals in downtown New Bedford to talk about what it takes to be successful in the business.
Q&A With New Bedford 4752 Festival Organizer Devin Byrnes
10/18/19
As the whole South Coast community is already well aware: a big rolling music festival –the 4752 Festival – is taking place this Saturday, October 19 in New Bedford. Devin Byrnes, bassist in Picniclunch, organized the festival and I asked him a few questions in anticipation. See below. Dan Shea also had a discussion with Devin and you can read that awesomeness here.
Interview w/ Devin Byrnes of New Bedford’s 4752 Festival
10/17/19
The 4752 Festival is taking over downtown New Bedford this Saturday, 10/19/19. The festival is being organized by Devin Byrnes. Devin is a NB local, Bassist of New Bedford based band Picniclunch and owner of a downtown restaurant called Destination Soups!
Destination Soups turns a corner
4/8/16
The photo Devin Byrnes posted on Facebook said it all.
He’s standing on a chair beneath the Destination Soups sign on Union Street, showing pride in the restaurant he’s owned for more than seven years, with arms raised in triumph, like Rocky Balboa atop the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Downtown New Bedford’s soup man, Devin Byrnes, opened Destination Soups during the Great Recession of 2008 and expanded four years later
4/21/22
Downtown New Bedford’s soup man, Devin Byrnes, opened Destination Soups during the Great Recession of 2008 and expanded four years later. He talks to interviewer Joanna McQuillan Weeks about the burgeoning downtown restaurant scene, the leaner times during COVID-19, and the slow return to a new normal.