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# Fried Chicken Brunch Sandwich at Homemade Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-homemade-cafe-fried-chicken-brunch-sandwich/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:24:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T10:22:38.000Z
- Description: Bacon, cheddar, fried chicken, egg, country cream gravy, maple-orange-cayenne syrup on open face french toast. Sandwich Score 57, solid. At Homemade Cafe, Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Homemade Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-homemade-cafe/), a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

GravyEggChickenCheddar CheeseBaconWhite Bread

**57**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +29.

A breakfast sandwich with layers outside the form; four of six roles.

**Holding the summit:** balance 0.80 or better

Balance

50

Harmony

92

Contrast

60

Structure

88

Focus

100

Composition

62

Quality

78

Envelope

99

More umami 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.

**open face french toast**, toasted: bacon; cheddar; fried chicken; egg; country cream gravy; maple-orange-cayenne syrup.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Maple-Orange-Cayenne Syrup.

## Balance

salt1.8 · 82ndacid0.2 · 30thfat2.9 · 77thsweet0.0umami2.7 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.8   | 82nd               |
| acid   | 0.2   | 30th               |
| fat    | 2.9   | 77th               |
| sweet  | 0.0   | n/a                |
| umami  | 2.7   | 90th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**70** 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     |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| open face french toast (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread   | soft                                  | the frame  |
| bacon                                                  | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy     | **+7**     |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese                        | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | **+5**     |
| fried chickenscored as Chicken                         | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender      | **+2**     |
| egg                                                    | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy     | **+1**     |
| country cream gravyscored as Gravy                     | sauce   | umami 4 salt 3 fat 3 saucy wet silky  | **+2**     |
| maple-orange-cayenne syrup                             |         |                                       | not scored |

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

- **Bacon + Cheddar Cheese**: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- **Bacon + Chicken**: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- **Bacon + Egg**: the breakfast contract: smoke and yolk
- **Cheddar Cheese + Egg**: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law

## How to raise it

Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

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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.