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# Egg Salad at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen-egg-salad/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:10:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:10:26.000Z
- Description: Egg salad, tomato, lettuce, mayo on toasted sourdough. Sandwich Score 89, outstanding. 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.

SourdoughMayonnaiseLettuceTomatoEgg SaladSourdough

**89**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · outstanding

Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.

Leans toward an egg salad sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Balance

95

Harmony

88

Contrast

96

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

98

Quality

100

Envelope

100

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.

**toasted sourdough**, toasted: egg salad; tomato; lettuce; mayo.

## Balance

salt1.1 · 56thacid1.4 · 85thfat2.5 · 64thsweet0.2 · 27thumami1.3 · 40thheat0.0bitter0.1 · 48th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.1   | 56th               |
| acid   | 1.4   | 85th               |
| fat    | 2.5   | 64th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 27th               |
| umami  | 1.3   | 40th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.1   | 48th               |

**95** 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    |
| ------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| toasted sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread   | soft chewy crusty                       | the frame |
| egg salad                            | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft        | **+13**   |
| tomato                               | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+23**   |
| lettuce                              | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+18**   |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise             | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **+29**   |

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

- **Egg Salad + Mayonnaise**: egg salad core: yolk richness doubled
- **Tomato + Mayonnaise**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.

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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.