Eggs, cheese, potatoes and salsa rolled tight in a flour tortilla, the default surfer's breakfast along the Santa Monica beach from dawn onwards.
The breakfast burrito is a Southern California invention that Santa Monica's surf culture made its own; Dogtown Coffee serves its version from the old Zephyr surf shop where the Z-Boys skate team formed in the 1970s, and beach cafes and juice bars across the city roll theirs for the dawn patrol crowd.
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Dogtown Coffee ★ 4.3
main-street · 2003 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Dogtown Coffee brews organic micro-roasted coffee in the old Zephyr surf shop on Main Street in Santa Monica, breakfast burritos for the dawn patrol.
FIG ★ 4.2
ocean-avenue · Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows, 101 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401
FIG at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica cooks off weekly farmers market runs, wood-blistered pizzas and lemon ricotta pancakes on a garden terrace.
Alfalfa ★ 4.0
main-street · 2309 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Alfalfa packs farmstand plates and breakfast burritos into a friends-founded counter on Main Street in Santa Monica, salads and smoothies with real intent.