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The Levant at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

Chicken, tahini sauce on wrap. Sandwich Score 43, rough. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

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

TortillaTahiniChickenTortilla
43
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +24.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
56
Harmony
66
Contrast
25
Structure
68
Focus
100
Composition
26
Quality
100
Envelope
91

More bitter 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.

wrap, served cold: chicken; tahini sauce.

Balance

salt0.4 · 18thacid0.0fat2.3 · 57thsweet0.0umami1.6 · 57thheat0.0bitter0.8 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.418th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.357th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.657th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.890th

56 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
wrapscored as Tortillabreadsoftthe frame
chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+30
tahini saucescored as Tahinisaucefat 4 bitter 2 creamy silky saucy+4

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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