avocado toast

noun

plural avocado toasts

: toast topped with sliced or mashed avocado and usually seasoning

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

Rodgers, who is thirty-eight, scanned the menu through tortoiseshell glasses before settling on avocado toast. —Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

Avocado Love it or roll your eyes at it, avocado toast earned its place in the breakfast spotlight. —Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025

As for food, White Rhino serves homemade breakfast sandwiches, tacos and pastries as well as dishes like avocado toast and egg/hashbrown scrambles. —Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025

Prepared-to-order dishes for $12 extra include a choice of avocado toast, a lox plate, and four versions of eggs Benedicts. —Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for avocado toast

• almost
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• lamppost
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• pancoast
• rightmost