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# Big Barney's Burger at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck)
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-barney-s-gourmet-hamburgers-shattuck-big-barney-s-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:18:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:18:11.000Z
- Description: Chuck beef patty, lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickle, 1000 island on french roll. Sandwich Score 80, excellent. At Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck), Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck)](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-barney-s-gourmet-hamburgers-shattuck/), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.

Hoagie RollRussian Dressing (T…Pickle (cucumber)OnionTomatoLettuceBeefHoagie Roll

**80**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent, with one move worth +14.

Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

96

Harmony

85

Contrast

96

Structure

100

Focus

100

Composition

74

Quality

100

Envelope

97

More acid than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**french roll**, toasted: chuck beef patty; lettuce; tomato; red onion; pickle; 1000 island.

## Balance

salt1.7 · 77thacid1.9 · 90thfat1.5 · 27thsweet0.9 · 88thumami1.2 · 37thheat0.3 · 73rdbitter0.1 · 55th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.7   | 77th               |
| acid   | 1.9   | 90th               |
| fat    | 1.5   | 27th               |
| sweet  | 0.9   | 88th               |
| umami  | 1.2   | 37th               |
| heat   | 0.3   | 73rd               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 55th               |

**96** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                                                   | Role    | Flavor and texture                       | Points    |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------- | --------- |
| french rollscored as Hoagie Roll                        | bread   | soft crusty                              | the frame |
| chuck beef pattyscored as Beef                          | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender         | **+20**   |
| lettuce                                                 | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                      | **+14**   |
| tomato                                                  | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh  | **+13**   |
| red onionscored as Onion                                | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh              | **+10**   |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber)                       | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled      | **+4**    |
| 1000 islandscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce   | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | **−6**    |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## Pairings

- **Beef + Onion**: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- **Beef + Pickle (cucumber)**: pickle brine against rich beef

## How to raise it

- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.06 short).

[All the sandwiches at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck)](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-barney-s-gourmet-hamburgers-shattuck/) · [The menu this was read from](https://www.barneyshamburgers.com/ada-menu?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.