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Shrimp & Avocado at Barefoot Cafe

Shrimp, avocado, tomato, lettuce, louis dressing on sourdough bread. Sandwich Score 55, solid. At Barefoot Cafe, Fairfax.

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

SourdoughLettuceTomatoAvocadoShrimpSourdough
55
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +27.

A po'boy with layers outside the form; five of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
75
Harmony
61
Contrast
96
Structure
98
Focus
79
Composition
41
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.

sourdough bread, served cold: shrimp; avocado; tomato; lettuce; louis dressing.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Louis Dressing.

Balance

salt0.4 · 18thacid0.5 · 45thfat1.6 · 29thsweet0.5 · 65thumami1.3 · 40thheat0.0bitter0.1 · 47th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.418th
acid0.545th
fat1.629th
sweet0.565th
umami1.340th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.147th

75 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
sourdough breadscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
shrimpproteinumami 2 springy juicy tender0
avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh+2
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+7
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+3
louis dressingnot 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.

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