avocado toast

noun

plural avocado toasts

: toast topped with sliced or mashed avocado

Sometimes called an avocado toast (and in the United States often associated with California), it's comfort food for any time of the day. You smash half a ripe avocado onto a thick piece of multigrain toast, season it with salt, pepper and chile flakes, then give it a splash of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon. Anything else is a flourish: dukkah (an Egyptian spice mix), toasted pumpkin seeds, a poached egg.

—Oliver Strand

Brunch dishes include avocado toast with pickled onion, soft egg, and pecan for $12 …

—Lia Picard

Examples of avocado toast in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Vale offerings include acai bowls, poke bowls and avocado toast at the cold superfood station as well as build-your-own protein bowls and signature salads at the hot-food station. —Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024

One of mine loves to sit down and get the avocado toast. —Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024

Said differently, your guac and your avocado toast could skyrocket if 25% tariffs are levied on Mexico. —Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024

The menu includes avocado toast, ahi poke bowls, sashimi and sushi rolls, warm crab and avocado salad, lobsters, and steak frites. —Kaila Yu, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above