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# Santa Fe Chicken at Cafe Benedict
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/cotati-cafe-benedict-santa-fe-chicken/
- Published: 2026-10-10T23:06:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T23:06:36.000Z
- Description: House marinated grilled chicken, roasted tomatoes, applewood smoked bacon, pepper jack cheese, avocado, lemon aioli on sweet french roll. Sandwich Score 70, very good. At Cafe Benedict, Cotati.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Cafe Benedict](https://onesandwich.com/cotati-cafe-benedict/), a cafe in Cotati, California.

Hoagie RollAvocadoMonterey JackBaconTomatoChickenHoagie Roll

**70**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +19.

Reads as a chicken bacon melt, five of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

76

Harmony

89

Contrast

90

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

63

Quality

100

Envelope

100

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.

**sweet french roll**, served cold: house marinated grilled chicken; roasted tomatoes; applewood smoked bacon; pepper jack cheese; avocado; lemon aioli.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Lemon Aioli.

## Balance

salt1.3 · 65thacid0.2 · 30thfat2.7 · 71stsweet0.1 · 21stumami2.1 · 78thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.3   | 65th               |
| acid   | 0.2   | 30th               |
| fat    | 2.7   | 71st               |
| sweet  | 0.1   | 21st               |
| umami  | 2.1   | 78th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**78** 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     |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| sweet french rollscored as Hoagie Roll           | bread   | soft crusty                             | the frame  |
| house marinated grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender        | **+8**     |
| roasted tomatoesscored as Tomato                 | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+14**    |
| applewood smoked baconscored as Bacon            | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy       | **+14**    |
| pepper jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack        | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty  | **−13**    |
| avocado                                          | fat     | fat 4 creamy soft fresh                 | **+6**     |
| lemon 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 + Bacon**: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- **Chicken + Avocado**: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- **Tomato + Bacon**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- **Bacon + Avocado**: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado

## How to raise it

- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.17 short).

[All the sandwiches at Cafe Benedict](https://onesandwich.com/cotati-cafe-benedict/) · [The menu this was read from](https://cafebenedict.com/s/New-Menu-Cafe-Benedict.pdf?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.