Avocado toast seems to be a current food rage in Miami. Almost everywhere I go for breakfast has a version of it. Some are just avocado, either smashed or sliced, on top of toast, which not infrequently is from Zak the Baker in Wynwood. Some add a poached or soft cooked egg on top. Others add additional ingredients such as ham, pickled onion and other condiments. Here are three of my current favorites:
All Day at 1035 North Miami Avenue serves the most unusual of the three with pickled red onion, sliced avocado, a poached egg and an advertised seven-grain toast. All Day is located in a warehouse-like neighborhood just around the corner from a large U-Haul rental facility. There not many, if any, other eating places in the area, It is a large, two story, bright white clean restaurant with specialty chocolates lining one wall, which I need to go back and try. There are about a dozen tables and at least half of them were trying the avocado toast on one of the days I was there.
Puroast is also located on Miami Avenue but on the south side of the Miami River at 632 South Miami Avenue, right on the edge of the Brickell City Center complex in the old Tobacco Road block. The avocado toast here also has sliced avocado, a poached egg and a pile of chopped ham. It’s called Rustic Avo Toast on the menu board. Puroast is primarily a coffee house with a small number of breakfast and lunch items, all of which look pretty good. Their specialty is coffee with the usual set of espresso and brewed coffee options. Try their Greca, their ‘signature brew’, for a great morning eye-opening experience.
Threefold Café is the only one of the three that serves their avocado mashed. Their version also has feta cheese, basil, thyme, butter and chopped roasted mushrooms. It is definitely the most complicated of the three and is served on a great toasted slice of Zak the Baker bread. Located at 141 Giralda Street (part of the soon to be completed pedestrian-only block) in the heart of Coral Cables, it is the largest of three restaurants and has the most extensive menu serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s large and bright and has an extensive espresso and brewed coffee menu that includes an affogato, one of my favorites – a shot of espresso served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream (more on my favorite affogato bars in a later post!).
Try these places and let me know what you think or share your favorite place to get a good avocado toast breakfast.