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# Beef Salami at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen-beef-salami/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:10:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:10:17.000Z
- Description: Beef salami, lettuce, tomato, onion, russian dressing on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 62, very good. At Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen/), a deli in Berkeley, California.

Hoagie RollRussian Dressing (T…OnionTomatoLettuceHoagie Roll

**62**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +26.

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

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

90

Harmony

76

Contrast

96

Structure

86

Focus

75

Composition

50

Quality

100

Envelope

95

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.

**hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)**, served cold: beef salami; lettuce; tomato; onion; russian dressing.

Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Beef Salami.

## Balance

salt0.9 · 50thacid1.3 · 82ndfat1.6 · 28thsweet1.3 · 90thumami0.9 · 26thheat0.5 · 86thbitter0.3 · 72nd

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 0.9   | 50th               |
| acid   | 1.3   | 82nd               |
| fat    | 1.6   | 28th               |
| sweet  | 1.3   | 90th               |
| umami  | 0.9   | 26th               |
| heat   | 0.5   | 86th               |
| bitter | 0.3   | 72nd               |

**90** 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     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)                | bread   | soft crusty                              | the frame  |
| beef salami                                                  |         |                                          | not scored |
| lettuce                                                      | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                      | **+5**     |
| tomato                                                       | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh  | **+10**    |
| onion                                                        | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh              | **−2**     |
| russian dressingscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce   | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | **+7**     |

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.

[All the sandwiches at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen/) · [The menu this was read from](https://www.saulsdeli.com/s/05-SANDWICH-gksw.pdf?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

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.