{"id":312589,"date":"2019-04-10T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/?p=312589"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:03:34","slug":"avocado-toast-forever-toastique-opens-today-in-old-town-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/food-and-drink\/food-news\/2019\/04\/10\/avocado-toast-forever-toastique-opens-today-in-old-town-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocado toast forever: Toastique opens today in Old Town Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BizCm7Pl6Ez\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BizCm7Pl6Ez\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can\u2019t keep our hands to ourself &#x1f60d;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toastique\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Toastique&#x2122;&#xfe0f;<\/a> (@toastique_dc) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-05-15T12:07:42+00:00\">May 15, 2018 at 5:07am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to think of it as a trend,&#8221; says\u00a0Anna Perault. Avocado toast, she\u00a0says, is &#8220;just going to stick around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as she spied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toastique.com\/new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toastique<\/a>, its original location at the Wharf in DC, she started a conversation with owner\u00a0Brianna Keefe.<\/p>\n<p>Perualt works for Avanti Holdings Group, the real estate company revitalizing Old Town Alexandria with quirky, cool, independent shops like <a href=\"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/things-to-do\/things-to-do-features\/2018\/12\/24\/from-the-harlem-globetrotters-to-a-holiday-parody-what-were-looking-forward-to-this-week-dec-24-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People&#8217;s Drug<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/food\/food-news\/2018\/10\/11\/pendleton-carryout-co-is-open-in-alexandria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendleton Carryout Co.<\/a> and, debuting this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/food\/food-news\/2019\/01\/18\/could-2019-be-the-year-of-more-mexican-restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chop Shop Taco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below Avanti&#8217;s offices, near the King Street Metro\u2014&#8221;Everyone walks by that space,&#8221; she says\u2014was empty retail waiting for a grab-and-go concept.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Toastique opens there.<\/p>\n<p>The second location will replicate the existing Toastique menu, selling seven toasts, a long slice of bread (from local bakery Lyon) decorated in avocado, poached egg, smoked pastrami salmon,\u00a0watermelon radishes\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/watermelonradish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the pink version that really pops on Instagram<\/a>) and avocado. Did we say avocado?<\/p>\n<p>Toast boards sell for $10-$14. There&#8217;s also drip coffee and nitro cold brew coffee, plus acai and pitaya (dragon fruit) bowls, smoothies, juices and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BnBpTUlgc4x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collagen lattes in a literal rainbow of colors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not everyone thinks avocado toast is still a thing.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning, avo toast was, writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/story\/avocado-toast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Birdsall for\u00a0<em>Bon Appetit<\/em><\/a>\u00a0&#8220;healthyish, exotic, simple, yet piously extravagant. It migrated into magazines and other restaurants, and with the launch of Instagram in 2010, to the screen of every food follower in America. By 2013 we were approaching peak toast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By 2017, &#8220;It\u2019s overplayed,&#8221; said the New York chef Gerardo Gonzalez\u00a0of\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/lalitonyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/lalitonyc.com\/&quot;}\">Lalito<\/a>. Birdsall tracks the trend from early &#8217;90s Australia to Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s &#8220;accessory of a radiant life devoted to psychospiritual nutrition,&#8221; to its status as basic: &#8220;trendy in a bland, unquestioning way, without imagination or style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one way to\u00a0rationalize the unending devotion to avocado toast, which somehow, though it is a carb, found its way into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-trend-is-toast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clean-eating parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00a0don&#8217;t think it is a trend, it&#8217;s just a way of healthy eating, a healthy culture,&#8221;\u00a0Perualt says. The two women\u00a0are already hoping to expand with more locations, says Perulat: &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t these sorts of cuisines around every corner?&#8221;\u00a0 \/\/\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toastique.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toastique<\/a>: 1605 King St., Alexandria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Want more food content? <a href=\"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/newsletter\/\">Subscribe<\/a> to our weekly newsletter.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second location of the toast-juice-smoothie bowl operation. 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