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# Grilled #19 at Homemade Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-homemade-cafe-grilled-19/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:24:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T10:22:11.000Z
- Description: 6oz thick hand cut hot corned beef, swiss cheese, coleslaw on grilled rye. Sandwich Score 76, excellent. At Homemade Cafe, Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Homemade Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-homemade-cafe/), a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

Rye BreadColeslawSwiss CheeseCorned BeefRye Bread

**76**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent, with one move worth +18.

Leans toward a deli corned beef, three of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

93

Harmony

96

Contrast

87

Structure

88

Focus

100

Composition

67

Quality

100

Envelope

97

More salt 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.

**grilled rye**, toasted: 6oz thick hand cut hot corned beef; swiss cheese; coleslaw.

## Balance

salt2.5 · 90thacid0.7 · 58thfat2.3 · 57thsweet0.2 · 27thumami2.3 · 84thheat0.0bitter0.3 · 79th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.5   | 90th               |
| acid   | 0.7   | 58th               |
| fat    | 2.3   | 57th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 27th               |
| umami  | 2.3   | 84th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.3   | 79th               |

**93** 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    |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------- | --------- |
| grilled ryescored as Rye Bread                          | bread   | bitter 2 soft crusty                   | the frame |
| 6oz thick hand cut hot corned beefscored as Corned Beef | protein | salt 5 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | **+18**   |
| swiss cheese                                            | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty        | **+4**    |
| coleslaw                                                | bulk    | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed    | **+11**   |

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

- **Rye Bread + Corned Beef**: corned beef rides rye's caraway bite
- **Corned Beef + Swiss Cheese**: melted swiss rounds salty corned beef
- **Corned Beef + Coleslaw**: corned beef and cabbage, the boiled dinner pair

## How to raise it

- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.13 short).

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Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.