Hot soup dished out by the French in a cold location (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
south pole
'a cold location' is the definition.
(the South Pole is very cold)
'hot soup dished out by the french' is the wordplay.
'dished out' is an anagram indicator.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'hot'+'soup'='hotsoup'
'hotsoup' anagrammed gives 'southpo'.
'southpo'+'le'='SOUTH POLE'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for south pole that I've seen before include "gets very cold!" , "to which Scott came" , "Antarctic" , "Amundsen got there first, before Scott" , "Goal of explorers" .)