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The Zibo at Eunice Gourmet Cafe

Grilled chicken, feta, avo on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 44, rough. At Eunice Gourmet Cafe, Albany.

The Zibo 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)AvocadoFetaChickenBread (generic)
44
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +35.

Uncharted, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
84
Harmony
62
Contrast
43
Structure
89
Focus
100
Composition
30
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; feta; avo.

Balance

salt1.4 · 70thacid0.6 · 52ndfat2.6 · 66thsweet0.0umami1.7 · 61stheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.470th
acid0.652nd
fat2.666th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.761st
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
grilled chickenscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender−2
fetaproteinsalt 4 fat 3 acid 2 umami 2 creamy soft0
avoscored as Avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh+8

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.

Pairings

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