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# Tuna Salad Melt at Moonside Bakery & Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-moonside-bakery-and-cafe-tuna-salad-melt/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:22:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:22:14.000Z
- Description: Tuna in a blend of seasonings and mayo, sliced tomato, avocado, jack cheese on sliced sourdough bread. Sandwich Score 65, very good. At Moonside Bakery & Cafe, Half Moon Bay.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Moonside Bakery & Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-moonside-bakery-and-cafe/), a bakery in Half Moon Bay, California.

Monterey JackAvocadoTomatoTuna SaladSourdough

**65**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +12.

A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; four of six roles, few layers have a partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

94

Harmony

67

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

54

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.

**sliced sourdough bread**, toasted: tuna in a blend of seasonings and mayo; sliced tomato; avocado; jack cheese.

## Balance

salt1.1 · 58thacid0.6 · 54thfat2.6 · 69thsweet0.2 · 24thumami2.1 · 79thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.1   | 58th               |
| acid   | 0.6   | 54th               |
| fat    | 2.6   | 69th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 24th               |
| umami  | 2.1   | 79th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**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    |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| sliced sourdough breadscored as Sourdough                  | bread   | soft chewy crusty                       | the frame |
| tuna in a blend of seasonings and mayoscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft        | **+8**    |
| sliced tomatoscored as Tomato                              | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+18**   |
| avocado                                                    | fat     | fat 4 creamy soft fresh                 | **+4**    |
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack                         | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty  | **−12**   |

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 + Tomato**: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair

[All the sandwiches at Moonside Bakery & Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-moonside-bakery-and-cafe/) · [The menu this was read from](https://moonsidebakery.com/food-menu?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.