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# Healthful Tuna at Barefoot Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/fairfax-barefoot-cafe-healthful-tuna/
- Published: 2026-10-10T23:16:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T23:16:12.000Z
- Description: Albacore tuna prepared with a touch of curry, roasted sunflower kernels, monterey jack, lettuce, tomato, sprouts on black bread. Sandwich Score 68, very good. 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.

Rye BreadSproutsTomatoLettuceMonterey JackTuna SaladRye Bread

**68**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +14.

A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

91

Harmony

70

Contrast

85

Structure

96

Focus

90

Composition

63

Quality

100

Envelope

100

More bitter 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.

**black bread**, served cold: albacore tuna prepared with a touch of curry; roasted sunflower kernels; monterey jack; lettuce; tomato; sprouts.

## Balance

salt1.3 · 63rdacid0.6 · 51stfat1.8 · 35thsweet0.2 · 25thumami2.0 · 75thheat0.0bitter0.5 · 90th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.3   | 63rd               |
| acid   | 0.6   | 51st               |
| fat    | 1.8   | 35th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 25th               |
| umami  | 2.0   | 75th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.5   | 90th               |

**91** 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     |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| black breadscored as Rye Bread                                   | bread   | bitter 2 soft crusty                    | the frame  |
| albacore tuna prepared with a touch of curryscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft        | **+9**     |
| roasted sunflower kernels                                        |         |                                         | not scored |
| monterey jack                                                    | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty  | **−11**    |
| lettuce                                                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+5**     |
| tomato                                                           | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+13**    |
| sprouts                                                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+1**     |

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

- **Tuna Salad + Lettuce**: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- **Tuna Salad + Tomato**: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair

[All the sandwiches at Barefoot Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/fairfax-barefoot-cafe/) · [The menu this was read from](https://barefootcafe.com/PDF/menus/Barefoot%20Cafe%20Lunch%20Menu%203-18.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.