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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.
3 editor picks for The breakfast burrito in Santa Monica, ranked by editorial score. All Santa Monica signature dishes · The breakfast burrito across every city.
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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.
TipThe building birthed the Z-Boys skate team; get the breakfast burrito before the surf crowd clears the batch.
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.
OrderLemon ricotta pancakes or the breakfast burrito
TipThe sun-trap garden terrace and the Potting Shed private room book out for weekend brunch; go on a weekday morning.
Alfalfa packs farmstand plates and breakfast burritos into a friends-founded counter on Main Street in Santa Monica, salads and smoothies with real intent.
OrderAncho Potato breakfast burrito or a farmstand plate
TipThe Ancho Potato breakfast burrito is the local order; it travels well for the four blocks to the sand.
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