AHHH-VOCADOS! Fun Facts About Avocado Toast in New Orleans
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Avocados are all the rage. They’re the new pumpkin spice, the General Tso’s chicken of the new millennium. Move over, oat milk. These little green wonders are slowly climbing the ranks on the edible hit list, nudging out spiked seltzers and nipping at the heels of kale.
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Avocados have been trending since 2017, when Americans spent around $900,000 on avocado toast every month, and then posted about it incessantly. There were an estimated three million pictures of avocado toast posted on Instagram every single day that summer. Miley Cyrus has a tattoo of an avocado on her arm. Celebrities Tom Selleck and Jamie Foxx both have avocado farms. More than just an embellishment for toast, avocados have branched out beyond the sphere of the spreadable to lead an entire avocado empire, which includes their very own paint color, merchandise, memes galore, and a whole mattress company named after them. It’s an avocado world, and we’re just living in it. Whether avocados’ fame will fizzle like that of the apple martini or they’ll join the ranks of all-time greats like bacon
Ready for something warm and toasty? If this has given you a hankering for an avocado, check out our list of recommended places where you can go and toast to your health. TOAST Any place with a name like Toast ought to have one heck of a namesake dish. Without disappointing, their avocado toast includes fried oysters, corn maque choux, eggs, and sriracha mayo. Multiple locations, toastneworleans.com RUBY SLIPPER CAFÉ Their version includes pico de gallo, flashfried capers, herbed garlic goat cheese, and a poached egg atop multigrain toast points. Add salmon for four bucks. Multiple locations, therubyslippercafe.net JOSEPHINE ESTELLE Avocado toast gets delizioso at this Italianmeets-Southern eatery. Their Tuscan Avocado Toast comes complete with ricotta, gravlax, chili aioli, and shaved radish. 600 Carondelet St., josephineestelle.com WILLA JEAN This avocado toast comes spiffed up with all the fixings, including arugula, heirloom tomato, pickled serrano peppers, shallots, spice, labneh yogurt cheese, and a poached egg. 611 O’Keefe Ave., willajean.com THE DAILY BEET First they mash their avocados and spread them across toasted slices of a Bellegarde country loaf, and then they add arugula, cherry tomato, cucumber, pickled red onion, feta, Himalayan sea salt, and chili flakes. Get even more decadent with optional additions of pasture-raised eggs or lox. Multiple locations, thedailybeetnola.com ALMA Organic avocados from California combine with a boiled egg, cherry tomatoes, radishes, herbs, grated sea salt flakes, and, of course, toast. 800 Louisa St., eatalmanola.com CHEMIN À LA MER Located inside the Four Seasons Hotel, Chemin à la Mer creates an avocado toast with a French twist: espellete (French peppers) and fresh radish on toasted French sourdough. 2 Canal St., fourseasons.com/neworleans THE VINTAGE The Vintage keeps it classic with bacon, eggs, and avocados on their toast. 3121 Magazine St., thevintagenola.com
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By Kathy Bradshaw
