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Roasted Portobello at Headlands Brewing Berkeley

Balsamic-marinated portobello mushroom, roasted red pepper, caramelized onion, mixed greens, vegan spread on pantofolina roll. Sandwich Score 45, rough. At Headlands Brewing Berkeley, Berkeley.

Roasted Portobello at Headlands Brewing Berkeley: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Headlands Brewing Berkeley, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

CiabattaMayonnaiseCaramelized OnionRoasted Red PepperMushroomCiabatta
45
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +30.

A veggie panini with layers outside the form; two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
79
Harmony
41
Contrast
73
Structure
77
Focus
65
Composition
27
Quality
100
Envelope
98

More sweet 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.

pantofolina roll, toasted: balsamic-marinated portobello mushroom; roasted red pepper; caramelized onion; mixed greens; vegan spread (low tier).

Balance

salt0.7 · 34thacid0.9 · 68thfat1.8 · 35thsweet1.1 · 90thumami1.4 · 46thheat0.0bitter0.2 · 62nd
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.734th
acid0.968th
fat1.835th
sweet1.190th
umami1.446th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.262nd

79 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
pantofolina rollscored as Ciabattabreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
balsamic-marinated portobello mushroomscored as Mushroombulkumami 2 soft springy juicy+1
roasted red pepperbulksweet 2 soft silky wet0
caramelized onionbulksweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silky−1
mixed greensnot scored
vegan spread (low tier)scored as Mayonnaisesaucefat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy+5

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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