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The Gual at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

French brie, sun-dried tomatoes on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 48, rough. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

The Gual 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 TomatoBrieBread (generic)
48
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +10.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
94
Harmony
60
Contrast
35
Structure
95
Focus
100
Composition
26
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: french brie; sun-dried tomatoes.

Balance

salt1.6 · 76thacid1.1 · 72ndfat2.9 · 78thsweet0.5 · 63rdumami2.3 · 86thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.676th
acid1.172nd
fat2.978th
sweet0.563rd
umami2.386th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

95 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
french briescored as Brieproteinfat 5 umami 3 salt 2 creamy soft melty+10
sun-dried tomatoesscored as Sun-Dried Tomatotextureumami 4 salt 3 acid 3 sweet 3 chewy soft+9

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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