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Avocado Toast at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo)

Avocado, pickled onion, microgreens, aleppo, sesame on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), Berkeley.

Avocado Toast at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo): an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), a bakery in Berkeley, California.

Pickled OnionAvocadoBread (generic)
54
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +31.

Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
71
Harmony
75
Contrast
90
Structure
84
Focus
75
Composition
36
Quality
100
Envelope
99

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.

bread not stated, toasted: avocado; pickled onion; microgreens; aleppo; sesame.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Microgreens, Aleppo Pepper.

Balance

salt0.4 · 18thacid1.6 · 90thfat1.6 · 29thsweet0.4 · 50thumami0.4 · 9thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.418th
acid1.690th
fat1.629th
sweet0.450th
umami0.49th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

71 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh+15
pickled onionacidacid 4 pickled wet crunchy+9
microgreensnot scored
alepponot scored
sesamenot 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.

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