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# Mushroom Egg Bagel at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen-mushroom-egg-bagel/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:10:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:10:41.000Z
- Description: Mushroom, scrambled egg, greens, cheddar, chili crisp on bagel. Sandwich Score 65, 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.

BagelSrirachaCheddar CheeseEggMushroomBagel

**65**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +18.

Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, three of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

86

Harmony

80

Contrast

74

Structure

89

Focus

100

Composition

75

Quality

100

Envelope

93

−8 heat past the catalog

More heat 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.

**bagel**, toasted: mushroom; scrambled egg; greens; cheddar; chili crisp (high tier).

Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Chili Crisp; ingredient not in the pantry: Greens.

## Balance

salt1.4 · 67thacid0.7 · 58thfat1.8 · 34thsweet0.2 · 30thumami1.6 · 53rdheat0.9 · 90thbitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.4   | 67th               |
| acid   | 0.7   | 58th               |
| fat    | 1.8   | 34th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 30th               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 53rd               |
| heat   | 0.9   | 90th               |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**86** 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     |
| ----------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| bagel                                     | bread   | soft chewy                            | the frame  |
| mushroom                                  | bulk    | umami 2 soft springy juicy            | **+1**     |
| scrambled eggscored as Egg                | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy     | **+22**    |
| greens                                    |         |                                       | not scored |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese           | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | **+23**    |
| chili crisp (high tier)scored as Sriracha | sauce   | heat 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy      | **−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

- **Mushroom + Cheddar Cheese**: browned mushroom under sharp cheddar
- **Egg + Cheddar Cheese**: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law

## How to raise it

- Clear the board: heat past the catalog (-8).
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.

[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/BREAKFAST-ykjc.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.