Breakfast Pizza - Breakfast of Champions

I first learned about breakfast pizza upon moving back to San Diego, after spending almost two years living in Myrtle Beach, SC. It was around May 2013, I had just started working for Sequenom Laboratories, and my bankers hours schedule allowed me to grab a bite to eat before work. In the interest of being healthy, I usually visited establishments such as Whole Foods. Little did I know I would find pizza, let alone BREAKFAST pizza at Whole Foods. The interest of being healthy was vehemently overtaken by my undying love of pizza.

Egg & Asparagus Pizza at Whole Foods La Jolla/Torrey Pines

What is breakfast pizza? It's pizza, with breakfast like ingredients, including but not limited to: eggs, bacon, ham, breakfast sausage, varying cheeses, veggies found in omelettes and scrambles not typically on pizza such as avocado, etc. Of course not all at the same time, but on different occasions, the pies had been topped with those ingredients. Some were your standard, egg, bacon, and cheese, others were more experimental.

For example:

Enjoying a slice of breakfast at Whole Foods before work. #breakfast #pizza #breakfastpizza #wholefoods

A photo posted by Payam Mousavinia (@pieslice) on Aug 7, 2013 at 8:09am PDT

The Egg & Asparagus Pizza has so far, in my opinion, been the "Holy Grail" of breakfast pizzas. A sunny side up egg, over medium, with roasted garlic, and asparagus.  I will re-create this pizza at home one day, I'm still reeling from it. A balanced flavor profile of herby, cheesy, veggie goodness that was consistent throughout the whole gargantuan slice.

Definitely will pie again. If you've not had breakfast pizza yet, I recommend you try it one day. In San Diego County, Whole Foods does it, and so does The Haven in Kensington. I'm sure there are more, but these are the two that I know of off the top of my head.

Note: Not all Whole Foods do the same pizzas. The one in my blog post is at the La Jolla/Torrey Pines location, off of Nobel Drive.

And yes, I know what you're thinking, "Any pizza can be a breakfast pizza if you try hard enough."
You're wrong. That's just pizza for breakfast, not breakfast pizza. I'm an aficionado, not a slob.

Thanks for reading!

Live long and pizza,
Payam