Let’s Have a Toast : A 5C Food Review

Slices of blush-colored tomatoes and purple rings of onion are the only staple on Sundays. The rest of the avocado toast toppings are capers, arugula, slices of mozzarella cheese, and slices of smoked salmon. There is also basil pesto and fig balsamic glaze.

Everyone lines up to eventually grab thick slices of toast. The toasts don’t look crispy and toasty on the outside. When I’m making my own toast, I usually try to almost burn the toast; I like my toast to be a nice sunny wheat brown color. The crisp on these slices of toast are like beauty marks on the bread. They are delicious nonetheless. These slices of bread somehow still taste crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. They also have a salty, buttery taste — it’s almost greasy but not quite. The workers put the bread on the grill. It has a comforting feeling.

My trick for avocado toast is actually assembling the avocado toast when I sit down. I put two slices of bread on one plate. I put the avocado spread, pesto, mozzarella, arugula, and capers on another plate. I don’t love smoked salmon. I don’t like the way that tomato slices taste on avocado toast. I had a bad experience with red onions a couple of lunches ago — I couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for the rest of the afternoon. I am still avoiding red onions. I take my plates and head to The Motley. I would like to state for the record that if Mallot were still serving overnight oats, I would totally have a bowl — but they aren’t.

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The students who work at The Motley sometimes organize themed shifts, which have special drinks that go along with them. The shift that day was baby themed. They had a couple of specialty drinks, including a blackberry latte, a coconut cream latte, and a strawberry matcha latte. I decided to try the strawberry strawberry flavor was the right amount of sweet to balance out the bitter aftertaste of matcha. The day was cloudy and slightly misty. It felt like the last sprinkle of rain that southern California needed to let springtime officially commence. Raise your cups for a toast: French, avocado, and The Motley.