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# Crispy Chicken at Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-summer-kitchen-bakeshop-crispy-chicken/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:13:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:13:05.000Z
- Description: Mary's free range organic crispy chicken, caraway mustard slaw, house made pickles, lemon-herb aioli on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 57, solid. At Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop, Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-summer-kitchen-bakeshop/), a cafe in Berkeley, California.

White BreadPickle (cucumber)ColeslawChickenWhite Bread

**57**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +17.

Leans toward a hot chicken sandwich, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

87

Harmony

91

Contrast

80

Structure

89

Focus

100

Composition

43

Quality

100

Envelope

96

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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.

**white bread (inferred from the kind of place)**, served cold: mary's free range organic crispy chicken; caraway mustard slaw; house made pickles (high tier); lemon-herb aioli.

Worth a look: house-made: Pickle (cucumber); named producer: Fried Chicken; ingredient not in the pantry: Lemon Herb Aioli.

## Balance

salt1.8 · 82ndacid2.0 · 90thfat1.0 · 14thsweet0.5 · 65thumami1.0 · 28thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.8   | 82nd               |
| acid   | 2.0   | 90th               |
| fat    | 1.0   | 14th               |
| sweet  | 0.5   | 65th               |
| umami  | 1.0   | 28th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**87** 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     |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------- | ---------- |
| white bread (inferred from the kind of place)             | bread   | soft                                | the frame  |
| mary's free range organic crispy chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender    | **+20**    |
| caraway mustard slawscored as Coleslaw                    | bulk    | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | **+3**     |
| house made pickles (high tier)scored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | **+11**    |
| lemon-herb aioli                                          |         |                                     | 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

- **Chicken + Coleslaw**: cold crunch against crisp fried chicken
- **Chicken + Pickle (cucumber)**: fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too

## How to raise it

- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).

[All the sandwiches at Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-summer-kitchen-bakeshop/) · [The menu this was read from](https://www.summerkitchengourmet.com/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.