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# Chino's Bacon at Bay Area Bagels
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels-chino-s-bacon/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:17:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:17:29.000Z
- Description: Baked chicken, bacon, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo on Bagel. Sandwich Score 83, excellent. At Bay Area Bagels, Burlingame.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Bay Area Bagels](https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels/), a bakery in Burlingame, California.

BagelMayonnaiseOnionTomatoLettuceSwiss CheeseBaconBagel

**83**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

A blt with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Balance

90

Harmony

90

Contrast

96

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

91

Quality

100

Envelope

100

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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.

**Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich)**, served cold: baked chicken; bacon; swiss cheese; lettuce; tomato; onion; mayo.

## Balance

salt1.4 · 70thacid0.7 · 58thfat2.7 · 70thsweet0.3 · 36thumami1.9 · 68thheat0.1 · 50thbitter0.1 · 55th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.4   | 70th               |
| acid   | 0.7   | 58th               |
| fat    | 2.7   | 70th               |
| sweet  | 0.3   | 36th               |
| umami  | 1.9   | 68th               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 50th               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 55th               |

**93** 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     |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread   | soft chewy                              | the frame  |
| baked chicken                              |         |                                         | not scored |
| bacon                                      | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy       | **+17**    |
| swiss cheese                               | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty         | **−5**     |
| lettuce                                    | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+21**    |
| tomato                                     | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+32**    |
| onion                                      | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **+5**     |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise                   | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **+4**     |

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 + Lettuce**: cool crunch against hot smoke
- **Bacon + Tomato**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- **Tomato + Mayonnaise**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

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

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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.