Switchback Coffee Roasters, formerly Fifty Fifty, offers nine food items which are already vegan or can be made so. They taste as fresh and bold as they look. Finding vegan breakfast options at restaurants, diners and cafes can feel a bit like discovering gold, so I was particularly delighted to find the vanilla short stack ($10) is vegan. The three whole-grain cakes dense and the light, bright vegan cream, fresh fruit (kiwi and banana on the day I visited), and small side of maple syrup put the level of sugary taste in your hands. These are pancakes you can feel good about eating.

 

  

Equally filling – if not more so – is the garden toast ($10). Before I go on – have you heard of “avocado toast”? It’s been the culinary darling on vegan food blogs for years and various ways to serve it now show up in the breakfast sections of many new cookbooks. Simply put: you mash ripe avocado with a fork onto a piece of toast. From there, add anything you like. At Switchback, the avocado toast is not vegan (as it contains eggs and honey) but the garden toast is, and it offers up a balanced nutrition profile: whole grains and vegetables. The base is a thick, substantial piece of toasted bread. The verdant chunky avocado is plentiful and covered in vegetables (multi-colored tomatoes, beets and onion) and colorful edible flowers. A sight to behold.

 

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