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The Caprese at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

Mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 52, solid. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

The Caprese 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)Sun-Dried TomatoMozzarellaBread (generic)
52
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +20.

Leans toward a caprese, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
86
Harmony
87
Contrast
30
Structure
93
Focus
96
Composition
38
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.

bread not stated, served cold: mozzarella; sun-dried tomatoes.

Balance

salt1.1 · 55thacid0.5 · 48thfat1.8 · 37thsweet0.5 · 63rdumami1.2 · 38thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.155th
acid0.548th
fat1.837th
sweet0.563rd
umami1.238th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

86 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
mozzarellaproteinfat 3 soft springy melty+14
sun-dried tomatoesscored as Sun-Dried Tomatotextureumami 4 salt 3 acid 3 sweet 3 chewy soft+14

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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