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The Basic at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

Grilled chicken, mozz on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 36, rough. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

The Basic at Eunice Gourmet Cafe: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Eunice Gourmet Cafe, a cafe in Albany, California.

Bread (generic)MozzarellaChickenBread (generic)
36
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +19.

Leans toward a chicken parm, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
62
Harmony
42
Contrast
22
Structure
82
Focus
100
Composition
22
Quality
100
Envelope
100

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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.

bread not stated, served cold: grilled chicken; mozz.

Balance

salt0.8 · 45thacid0.0fat2.0 · 44thsweet0.0umami1.6 · 55thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.845th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.044th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.655th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

62 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
grilled chickenscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender−2
mozzscored as Mozzarellaproteinfat 3 soft springy melty+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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