This Queens Man Is A Private Avocado Dealer For Top NYC Chefs

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — The perfectly ripe, Instagram-worthy avocados on the plates of such esteemed New York restaurants as the Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park and popular brunch spot the Butcher's Daughter are all the fruit of Long Island City resident Miguel Gonzalez's labor.

Within the last few years, Gonzalez has become the private avocado dealer to the star chefs of New York City, according to the New Yorker.

Gonzalez, 37, has built a reputation on his ability to supply picture-perfect avocados by controlling how they're transported and "babysitting" the fruits as they ripen, his wife told Eater NY in 2018.

Gonzalez's detailed process prompted a New Yorker reporter to write that he "may have solved the rock-hard-avocado problem" in a profile published this week.

Gonzalez, who goes by Davocadoguy on Instagram, delivers avocados from his Queens warehouse to the chefs and owners of more than 100 restaurants across the city, according to Eater.

"His avocado, it's really like candy," renowned chef Daniel Boulud told Eater last year.

Gonzalez grew up in the Mexican city Los Reyes de Salgado, which is known for its avocado farms, according to the New Yorker. He started ripening avocados in his basement in 2014, Eater reported. Now his warehouse houses several thousand avocados at a time.

"My goal is to give you something that’s different than the supermarket," he told the New Yorker.

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Read more about Gonzalez in the New Yorker and Eater New York.