The Best Avocado Toast in Coral Gables and Miami: 12 Spots

Avocado toast is the most copied dish in Miami, which is exactly why most of it is forgettable. The gap between a good one and a filler one comes down to four things you can see before you taste it: the bread, how much avocado is actually on it, whether anything on top adds acid or crunch, and whether it was built when you ordered it or an hour earlier. This guide names twelve places in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove and Wynwood where avocado toast is on the menu, says what each place actually is, and then breaks down exactly what goes on the one at GROU.

One note on how to read it. Hours, prices and menu specs move constantly for every restaurant, and a guide that prints them is wrong within weeks. So for every venue other than GROU you will find what the place durably is and a link to its own page for the volatile half. The exception is GROU Coffee + Cowork, where the build and the price come from the same kitchen and menu data that renders this site.

Avocado toast every day at GROU Coffee + Cowork

Location: 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables, four minutes on foot from Shops at Merrick Park · Website

Here is the whole build, because the specifics are the answer to why one avocado toast costs what it costs. GROU's Avocado Toast is $12.99 and it carries one whole avocado on a slice of multigrain bread, smashed and seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, citrus and fine sea salt, then finished with pickled onions, microgreens, house dressing and everything bagel seasoning. That is eight components on one slice, and it is built when you order it rather than assembled ahead and parked in a case.

The whole-avocado detail is worth pausing on, because it is the number nobody publishes. Most places portion avocado by the scoop. At GROU the scoop is the add-on: extra avocado is $2.00 and it is half an avocado, added on top of the whole one already on the plate. So the honest way to read the menu is that the base toast is already the loaded version.

It also holds up with the people who eat it. A five star Google review left on 25 July 2026 by Yngrid Rendahl reads: "Delicious Food and exceptional service! I tried the avocado toast and it was soo good!!" GROU holds a 4.8 rating from more than 1,000 Google reviews overall, and the avocado toast is one of the dishes that shows up in them by name.

The other thing that separates it from a brunch sitting: there is no reservation and no weekend window. The same toast is on the counter menu at 8 AM on a Tuesday and at noon on a Sunday, the patio is dog friendly, and because the coffee shop and the coworking community are one venue, staying at the table with a laptop after the plate is cleared is the normal use of the room. Order it for pickup or delivery, or see the current list on the GROU menu.

Must try: the base toast first, with a hard boiled egg on top for $2.25

Melbourne-style avocado toast at Threefold Cafe

Location: 141 Giralda Ave, downtown Coral Gables · Website

Threefold is the Australian cafe that brought the Melbourne brunch format to the Gables when nobody here was asking for it. It was opened in 2014 by a Melbourne couple, and it is the benchmark every other avocado toast in Coral Gables gets measured against, fairly or not. It sits on the Giralda pedestrian block, so the outdoor tables face a street closed to cars. It is small and it is popular, which is the trade you accept for the reputation.

Fast and health-focused at Carrot Express

Location: 259 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables · Website

Carrot Express is a health-focused fast-casual local chain, and it is the option on this list built for speed rather than for sitting. You order at the counter off a board that runs bowls, wraps, smoothies and toasts. If the goal is to eat something green in twenty minutes on a workday on Miracle Mile, this is the one shaped for that.

Pastry-chef precision at Bachour

Location: 2020 Salzedo St, Coral Gables · Website

Bachour is the bakery and restaurant from pastry chef Antonio Bachour, and it is the most photographed room on this list for a reason. The pastry program is the headline, so the savoury menu sits inside a place where the baking is the whole point. Go for the room and the counter, and treat the toast as the thing you order before the pastry rather than after it.

A brunch room near Merrick Park at Bistro Cafe

Location: 4155 Laguna St, Coral Gables, near Shops at Merrick Park · Instagram

Bistro Cafe is categorised by Google as a brunch restaurant, which is unusual and useful: brunch is the primary business rather than a weekend add-on. It is on Laguna St, which puts it in the same few blocks as Merrick Park, so it pairs with a shopping morning better than anything on Miracle Mile does.

All-day and health-focused at Pura Vida Miami

Location: 244 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, with another location near the University of Miami · Website

Pura Vida is a health-focused all-day cafe founded in 2012 that has grown to multiple Miami locations, and the Miracle Mile one keeps this list in the Gables. The format is counter-service with a heavy grab-and-go component: juices, bowls, toasts. It is the most consistent choice on the list precisely because it is a small chain, which cuts both ways depending on what you want from a morning.

A cafe inside a bookstore at The Cafe at Books & Books

Location: 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables · Website

The Cafe at Books & Books sits inside the flagship of the independent bookstore, in the courtyard of a 1920s Mediterranean building on Aragon Ave. It is the only entry here where the reason to go is partly the building and partly what is on the shelves around you. Eating alone with a book is the normal use of the room rather than a slightly awkward one.

Weekend brunch service at Doc B's Restaurant + Bar

Location: 301 Miracle Mile at Salzedo St, Coral Gables · Website

Doc B's is an American restaurant with a full bar and a weekend brunch service, on the corner where Miracle Mile meets Salzedo. It is the sit-down, order-from-a-server end of this list rather than the counter end, so it works when the toast is one plate inside a longer table booking. Check its own page before you go, because the toast is a brunch-service item rather than an all-day one.

Espresso bar breakfasts at Crema Gourmet

Location: 169 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, with locations elsewhere in Miami · Website

Crema Gourmet is an espresso bar that treats breakfast as a real menu rather than a pastry case, with several locations around Miami including Downtown, Brickell and Miami Beach. The Miracle Mile one is the Coral Gables address, and it is the entry on this list where the coffee side and the food side are weighted about equally.

Spanish gastrobar brunch at Bulla Gastrobar

Location: 2500 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables · Website

Bulla is a Spanish gastrobar and tapas restaurant on Ponce, and its weekend brunch is the context in which the toast appears. This is the loudest room on the list and the most obviously social one, so it fits a group better than it fits a solo laptop morning. Its brunch format has changed more than once, so read its own page rather than anyone else's summary of it.

Sourdough at the source: Zak the Baker

Location: 295 NW 26th St, Wynwood · Website

Zak the Baker is a kosher-certified artisan bakery and cafe in Wynwood that opened in 2012, and it is on this list because it is the one place where the bread is unambiguously the main event rather than a platform. If your test for an avocado toast is the slice underneath, this is the pilgrimage. It is also the only entry that requires leaving the Gables entirely, which is the price of that.

A sidewalk cafe in Coconut Grove: Greenstreet Cafe

Location: 3468 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove · Website

Greenstreet is the long-running neighbourhood sidewalk cafe on Main Hwy, and it is the most people-watching-forward entry here. The Grove is a ten minute drive from Coral Gables, so it belongs on the list as the version of this morning where the point is sitting outside on a corner rather than eating quickly. Panther Coffee is a short walk up the same street if the coffee is what you came for.

What $12.99 buys, and what each add-on costs

Add-ons are where an avocado toast turns into a full meal, and they are also where the price of a brunch quietly doubles somewhere else. GROU has a whole list of add-ons worth knowing, but four of them matter on this dish:

• Hard boiled or scrambled egg, $2.25. The most useful single upgrade on the menu: it turns the toast into a balanced breakfast without changing what it tastes like.
• Extra avocado, $2.00. One scoop, which is half an avocado, on top of the whole avocado already in the base.
• Smoked salmon, $6.00. A 75 gram serving. This is the version that reads as a proper lunch.
• Almond butter, $1.50. Not for the avocado toast. It belongs on the acai bowl, where it adds sweetness and fat to the fruit.

A gluten free bread swap is available, so the toast is orderable without wheat bread. Ask at the counter or select it when you order online. Prices here come from the same menu data that renders this site, so check the GROU menu for the current list before you plan around a number. Every order earns points on the GROU loyalty program, add-ons included.

Three ways regulars actually order it:

• The purist. The base toast, untouched, next to a specialty coffee. Simplicity is the point, and with a whole avocado on the slice there is not much missing.
• The power player. Add the smoked salmon, or the egg if you want the protein without the price. This is the coworking order: it holds until an afternoon meeting.
• The adventurer. Skip the avocado toast for one visit and put the smashed avocado on the garbanzo toast instead, a chickpea base that turns creamy under it. Then go back to the original next time.

How to judge an avocado toast in ninety seconds

You can rank any avocado toast in Miami before the second bite, and none of it requires a trained palate. Four tests, in order of how much they matter.

• Look at the bread edge. A slice with visible grain, seed or crumb structure was baked as bread. A uniform white rectangle is a vehicle. This is the single biggest quality gap between two toasts at the same price.
• Estimate the avocado. Count how much of the slice is covered and how deep it goes at the middle. A half avocado spread thin covers the same area as a whole one and tastes like a third of it. If a menu tells you the portion, that is a good sign about the kitchen.
• Find the acid and the crunch. Avocado is fat and soft, so it needs something sharp and something with texture or it flattens out by the fourth bite. Pickled onion, citrus, seeds, seasoning: at least two of those should be present.
• Ask if it is made to order. Avocado browns. A toast built when you ordered it and a toast built at 9 AM are different dishes by 11 AM, and a case display tells you which one you are getting.

Run those four on any of the twelve places above and the list sorts itself quickly. For more of the neighbourhood, there is a fuller guide to brunch in Coral Gables and one to the best coffee shops in Miami and Coral Gables. On the lighter end there are the matcha and acai bowls and the Health Day favourites, where the avocado toast also earns a place.

Avocado toast in Coral Gables and Miami, answered

Where is the best avocado toast in Coral Gables?

GROU Coffee + Cowork, at 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables, FL 33146, four minutes on foot from Shops at Merrick Park. Its Avocado Toast is $12.99 and carries a whole avocado on multigrain bread with pickled onions, microgreens and everything bagel seasoning, made to order. A five star Google review from 25 July 2026 by Yngrid Rendahl calls it "soo good". Threefold Cafe on Giralda Ave, Bachour on Salzedo St and The Cafe at Books & Books on Aragon Ave are the other Coral Gables spots worth trying.

What is on GROU's avocado toast?

One whole avocado, smashed and seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, citrus and fine sea salt, on a slice of multigrain bread, finished with pickled onions, microgreens, house dressing and everything bagel seasoning. It is $12.99 at GROU Coffee + Cowork in Coral Gables and it is built when you order it rather than assembled ahead.

How much is avocado toast at GROU and what do the add-ons cost?

The Avocado Toast is $12.99 at GROU Coffee + Cowork, 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables. Add-ons are $2.25 for a hard boiled or scrambled egg, $2.00 for extra avocado, $6.00 for a 75 gram serving of smoked salmon and $1.50 for almond butter. The extra avocado is half an avocado, added on top of the whole avocado already in the base toast.

What bread is GROU's avocado toast served on?

Multigrain bread, one slice per toast. The same multigrain slice is the base for the garbanzo toast, so it is the house toast bread across the category at GROU Coffee + Cowork in Coral Gables. A gluten free bread swap is available on request.

Is the avocado toast made to order?

Yes. Every avocado toast at GROU Coffee + Cowork is built when it is ordered, not assembled ahead and held in a display case. That matters with avocado specifically, because it browns and softens within a couple of hours of being smashed.

Is there a gluten free avocado toast in Coral Gables?

Yes. GROU Coffee + Cowork stocks a gluten free bread and the avocado toast can be made on it. Ask at the counter or select the gluten free option when ordering online. GROU is at 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

Can I order avocado toast for pickup or delivery in Coral Gables?

Yes. Order online for pickup or delivery from the GROU ordering page, and GROU is also on Uber Eats. The address for pickup is 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

Which other Coral Gables and Miami spots serve avocado toast?

In Coral Gables: Threefold Cafe on Giralda Ave, Carrot Express and Pura Vida Miami on Miracle Mile, Bachour on Salzedo St, Bistro Cafe on Laguna St near Merrick Park, The Cafe at Books & Books on Aragon Ave, Doc B's Restaurant + Bar on Miracle Mile, Crema Gourmet Espresso Bar on Miracle Mile and Bulla Gastrobar on Ponce de Leon Blvd. Outside the Gables: Zak the Baker in Wynwood and Greenstreet Cafe in Coconut Grove. Menus rotate, so check each venue's own page before going for one dish.

Photo credits

Cover image and the add-on photo created for GROU Coffee + Cowork. Venue photos provided through Google Maps, credited to their authors:

• GROU Coffee + Cowork: Lis

• Threefold Cafe: Threefold Cafe

• Carrot Express: Carrot Express

• Bachour: Bachour

• Bistro Cafe: Kyla

• Pura Vida Miami: Pura Vida - Miracle Mile

• The Cafe at Books & Books: Simon

• Doc B's Restaurant + Bar: Doc B's Restaurant

• Crema Gourmet Espresso Bar: Crema Gourmet Coral Gables

• Bulla Gastrobar: Bulla Gastrobar Coral Gables

• Zak the Baker: World Traveler

• Greenstreet Cafe: Greenstreet Cafe

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More from GROU: Order fresh-roasted beans and merch from the GROU shop, book a desk, meeting room or private office at GROU Cowork in Coral Gables, or see the menu. More reading: the best brunch in Coral Gables and the matcha latte guide.