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# Tuna Melt at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen-tuna-melt/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:11:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:11:54.000Z
- Description: Line-caught albacore tuna salad, swiss on grilled rye. Sandwich Score 52, solid. 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.

Rye BreadSwiss CheeseTuna SaladRye Bread

**52**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +30.

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

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

Balance

76

Harmony

81

Contrast

63

Structure

82

Focus

100

Composition

30

Quality

100

Envelope

98

More umami 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: line-caught albacore tuna salad; swiss.

## Balance

salt1.6 · 76thacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.4 · 60thsweet0.0umami2.8 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.4 · 85th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.6   | 76th               |
| acid   | 0.4   | 42nd               |
| fat    | 2.4   | 60th               |
| sweet  | 0.0   | n/a                |
| umami  | 2.8   | 90th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.4   | 85th               |

**76** 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 |
| line-caught albacore tuna saladscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | **−5**    |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese                         | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty  | **+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.

[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.