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Grilled Rosemary Chicken at Barefoot Cafe

Free range chicken breast marinated in rosemary and white wine, lettuce, tomato, dijon honey mustard on dusted roll. Sandwich Score 49, rough. At Barefoot Cafe, Fairfax.

A sandwich at Barefoot Cafe, a restaurant in Fairfax, California.

Kaiser RollHoney MustardTomatoLettuceKaiser Roll
49
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +39.

Uncharted, four of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
64
Harmony
52
Contrast
84
Structure
62
Focus
75
Composition
40
Quality
100
Envelope
86

Less fat than almost everything in 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.

dusted roll, toasted: free range chicken breast marinated in rosemary and white wine; lettuce; tomato; dijon honey mustard (low tier).

Balance

salt1.1 · 55thacid1.4 · 83rdfat0.0sweet1.7 · 90thumami0.9 · 26thheat0.5 · 83rdbitter0.1 · 57th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.155th
acid1.483rd
fat0.0n/a
sweet1.790th
umami0.926th
heat0.583rd
bitter0.157th

64 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
dusted rollscored as Kaiser Rollbreadsoft crustythe frame
free range chicken breast marinated in rosemary and white winenot scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+3
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+6
dijon honey mustard (low tier)scored as Honey Mustardsaucesweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth−2

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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