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# Chicken Salad at Barefoot Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/fairfax-barefoot-cafe-chicken-salad/
- Published: 2026-10-10T23:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T23:16:00.000Z
- Description: Homemade chicken salad with water chestnuts, green onions, lettuce, tomato on whole wheat bread. Sandwich Score 59, solid. At Barefoot Cafe, Fairfax.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Barefoot Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/fairfax-barefoot-cafe/), a restaurant in Fairfax, California.

Whole Wheat BreadTomatoLettuceScallion (green oni…Chicken SaladWhole Wheat Bread

**59**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +29.

Leans toward a club, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

94

Harmony

65

Contrast

85

Structure

96

Focus

100

Composition

42

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.

**whole wheat bread**, served cold: homemade chicken salad with water chestnuts (house-made); green onions; lettuce; tomato.

Worth a look: house-made: Chicken Salad.

## Balance

salt0.9 · 51stacid0.8 · 60thfat1.2 · 17thsweet0.2 · 31stumami1.6 · 53rdheat0.2 · 63rdbitter0.3 · 78th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 0.9   | 51st               |
| acid   | 0.8   | 60th               |
| fat    | 1.2   | 17th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 31st               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 53rd               |
| heat   | 0.2   | 63rd               |
| bitter | 0.3   | 78th               |

**94** 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    |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| whole wheat bread                                                               | bread    | soft                                    | the frame |
| homemade chicken salad with water chestnuts (house-made)scored as Chicken Salad | protein  | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft tender | **+13**   |
| green onionsscored as Scallion (green onion, chives)                            | aromatic | fresh herbal crisp                      | **−2**    |
| lettuce                                                                         | texture  | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+2**    |
| tomato                                                                          | texture  | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+9**    |

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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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.