has come to stay
It's been a while since he avocado ( avocado in English) has become the Rosalia from #foodporn (Not for nothing, but we already announced it in 2015). There is no way around it. Not a self-respecting instagramer (or one who wants to boast) who hasn't uploaded a photo having breakfast an avocado toast (on a seed bread, gluten-free and salt-free) or a hope-colored smoothie (for not touching on the subject of avolatte) for vouch for your healthy lifestyle and his most refined and most modern taste.
You don't label eating a pippin apple or a tangerine, but there's no chance you'll eat an #avocado without echo it on your social networks.
It is simply like this: the avocado freak he does not hide in the shadows of the night, he is proud of it, he exhibits it (and pays for it) and finds complicity in thousands of his peers.
#avocado , #avocadotoast , #avocadolove , #AvocadoLife , #avoholic or #HoldMyAvocado ... are some of the most successful and common hashtags in food photos.
But this fever goes beyond what is strictly culinary: all you have to do is take a look at the IG of Colette Dick , a well-known food stylist who posted on her profile that she had been asked to marry an avocado and since then it has become fashionable to use this fruit as a ring chest (and, of course, share it in search of the “Yes, I like” ) .
The bottom line is that there is no escape. We have (literally) avocado even in the soup . Gentrification has also come to fruition (with all its consequences) and now we have to deal with the obsession with “ the green gold , as we had to deal with the tuna tartar, the buns and the cachopo.
And, as expected, the flagship product already has a **monotheistic temple in Madrid**. And not one, but three, within a radius of one square kilometer, that revolve around this superfood with miraculous properties (it is rich in fiber, low in cholesterol and triglycerides, and slimming), each one from a different perspective.
The idea is not new. A few months ago we told you about the Avocado Show in Amsterdam , the Avocado in NYC or the Avo Pop Up, in London, but it is no longer necessary to travel to binge on potassium, vitamin K and folic acid, because in the old Sound street (now avocado?) we can do it in two places. And a few meters away, in Malasaña, in another. In all of them, a lot of green in form and background, a lot of rattan and a lot (very much) avocado.
The decoration is from Madrid in Love Studio
AÜAKT
The old RRR, where years ago we used to go rock dancing, has been converted less than a month ago into Aüakt, an amazing decoration magazine venue designed by the prolific Madrid in Love Studio , in which raw cement walls coexist with chandeliers or feather lamps, rattan chairs, plants as Instagrammable as its fruit muse.
Here is something for everyone, since Aüakt gets up early and stays late , opening from 10am to 2pm, and has four different menus (breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner).
toast with avocado (accompanied by hummus with beetroot and zaatar; white miso with asparagus; persimmon, fennel, and pomegranate...), for breakfast. Grilled aüakt with prawn tartare (€16.50) ; roasted aubergine with caper, cheese and basil pesto (€9.50); Thai cheek piece (€22) ; roasted cauliflower with fried egg or Grilled boneless aüakt stuffed with prawn tartar broken aüakt tart (€7), for lunch and dinner. Let's also add exotic cocktails (from €9).
The bread is sourdough (from the Obrador San Francisco) and the coffee is a specialty.
What would an avocado restaurant be without its toast?
AVOHAUS
In what used to be a neighborhood cafeteria (perhaps the penultimate one left on the street) in a flash and without us even realizing it, just two weeks landed Avohaus.
Although also focused on avocado, present in 90% of dishes, does not have such a healthy approach as Avocado Love (which we will talk about now) nor as social as Aüakt.
In fact, accommodates the meat (includes ham and cochinita pibil in some of its lunches, as well as bacon, roast beef and chicken at dinner) . Also gluten “on all toast”.
With an exposed bar and a few tables, decorated in all greens and mustard, raffia, wallpaper with plant motifs, mirrors and a certain seventies touch, his schedule is also extensive.
They serve breakfast from 10 to 11.45 h. For example, crystal bread with tomato and avocado or rustic bread with whatever you want (avocado, cream cheese with herbs, smoked salmon with beetroot and oil caviar...), going through avocado and herb omelette with lime mayonnaise ( €8).
At lunch time , in addition to the soup of the day, maintains the format of rustic bread toasts or brioche bread with different combined elements (Iberian ham, fried egg, pickled apple, dried tomato pesto...).
At night, it is the turn of the more sophisticated dishes : homemade guacamole with chips, avocado hummus with homemade crudités and pickles, roast beef with avocado chimichurri and dried tomatoes with Parmesan cheese, lazy avocado omelette, chicken mole, homemade pickles and popcorn.
The most interesting in the section of the drinks is kombucha (the fermented drink that triumphs in California) of various flavors.
AVOCADO LOVE
In the Malasaña neighbourhood, the same owners of Lolina Café and Holidays, two mythical in the area, have opened the Avocado Love , which defines itself as the first “avocado bar” from Spain in a tiny room (an old room in a vegetarian restaurant with contemporary and stylish decoration for about 30 people), with thonet chairs and (again) rattan and wallpaper with plant motifs.
There are no half measures here Avocado Love is purist : 100% vegan and without gluten and includes the avocado in all its proposals as a common thread, even in desserts and drinks (cocktails and smoothies), although, they qualify: “that does not mean that it is always the protagonist”. Its chef, Christian Arellano, has trained at the Hofmann school.
Among his dishes, many flavors stand out, Asian and Mexican, Avocado Humus Pizza (€6.70) , Skewers of Heura with dark chocolate (9€), the Melon Poke Ceviche (€7.90) and the great lady, the hamburger. Oh, and eye, because they boast of vegan brunch.
Vegan wines and vegan and gluten-free beers and organic coffee with vegetable milks (soy, almond, coconut and oats) complete a very aligned proposal that will surely survive the avocado trend.