A wrap at D'Yar, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +11.
Reads as a fully realized falafel pita, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
Pita (bread not stated on the menu), served cold: falafel; cucumber; tomato; seasoned onions; tahini sauce; hummus; avocado.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.6 | 28th |
| acid | 0.2 | 32nd |
| fat | 2.4 | 60th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 1.1 | 32nd |
| heat | 0.2 | 70th |
| bitter | 0.4 | 84th |
70 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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pita | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| falafel | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 crunchy crispy fried | +12 |
| cucumber | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +10 |
| seasoned onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tahini saucescored as Tahini | sauce | fat 4 bitter 2 creamy silky saucy | +2 |
| hummus | sauce | fat 3 creamy | +2 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −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.
Pairings
- Falafel + Tahini: tahini is falafel's stated sauce
- Falafel + Hummus: falafel on hummus, the pita standard
- Cucumber + Hummus: cool crunch over nutty hummus
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.10 short).
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