A sandwich at Roadees Cafe, a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More acid 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.
soft roll, served cold: roast beef; mayo; lettuce; tomato; red onions; pickles; pepperoncini; american cheese (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 81st |
| acid | 1.9 | 90th |
| fat | 1.8 | 37th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 64th |
| umami | 1.1 | 34th |
| heat | 0.2 | 67th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| soft rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +19 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +2 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −4 |
| pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | −5 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | +1 |
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
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + Pickle (cucumber): pickle brine against rich beef
- Beef + American Cheese: cheesesteak law: melted american on beef
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: 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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