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# Turkey Burger at Moonside Bakery & Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-moonside-bakery-and-cafe-turkey-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:22:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:22:17.000Z
- Description: 6 oz ground turkey, caramelized onions, lettuce, tomato, jack cheese, avocado, lemon aioli on sesame bun. Sandwich Score 79, excellent. At Moonside Bakery & Cafe, Half Moon Bay.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

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

Burger BunAvocadoMonterey JackTomatoLettuceCaramelized OnionBurger Bun

**79**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

Reads as a fully realized burger, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Balance

84

Harmony

78

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

96

Composition

84

Quality

100

Envelope

98

More sweet 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.

**sesame bun**, toasted: 6 oz ground turkey; caramelized onions; lettuce; tomato; jack cheese; avocado; lemon aioli.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Moonside Bakery & Cafe's typical score.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Lemon Aioli.

## Balance

salt0.9 · 50thacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.4 · 58thsweet1.1 · 90thumami1.5 · 52ndheat0.0bitter0.2 · 70th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 0.9   | 50th               |
| acid   | 0.4   | 42nd               |
| fat    | 2.4   | 58th               |
| sweet  | 1.1   | 90th               |
| umami  | 1.5   | 52nd               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.2   | 70th               |

**84** 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     |
| --------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| sesame bunscored as Burger Bun                | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                    | the frame  |
| 6 oz ground turkey                            |         |                                         | not scored |
| caramelized onionsscored as Caramelized Onion | bulk    | sweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silky        | **+1**     |
| lettuce                                       | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+1**     |
| tomato                                        | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+10**    |
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack            | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty  | **+19**    |
| avocado                                       | fat     | fat 4 creamy soft fresh                 | **−1**     |
| lemon aioli                                   |         |                                         | not 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.

## How to raise it

- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.

[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.