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# #5 Pastrami Sub at Roadees Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/brentwood-roadees-cafe-5-pastrami-sub/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:16:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:16:21.000Z
- Description: Pastrami, turkey, bacon, swiss cheese, garlic sauce, mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, pepperoncini on Hoagie Roll. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Roadees Cafe, Brentwood.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Roadees Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/brentwood-roadees-cafe/), a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.

Hoagie RollPepperonciniPickle (cucumber)OnionTomatoLettuceMustardMayonnaiseGarlic SauceSwiss CheeseBaconTurkeyPastramiHoagie Roll

**54**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +12.

A turkey sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles.

**Holding the summit:** a focused, restrained build

Balance

99

Harmony

100

Contrast

100

Structure

81

Focus

25

Composition

81

Quality

100

Envelope

99

−6 sauce overload

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.

**Hoagie Roll (inferred from the kind of sandwich)**, served cold: pastrami; turkey; bacon; swiss cheese; garlic sauce; mayo; mustard; lettuce; tomato; onions; pickles; pepperoncini.

## Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid1.6 · 90thfat1.9 · 39thsweet0.2 · 29thumami1.6 · 54thheat0.5 · 85thbitter0.1 · 56th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.1   | 90th               |
| acid   | 1.6   | 90th               |
| fat    | 1.9   | 39th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 29th               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 54th               |
| heat   | 0.5   | 85th               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 56th               |

**99** 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 sandwich) | bread   | soft crusty                             | the frame |
| pastrami                                         | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender  | **−2**    |
| turkey                                           | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender               | **0**     |
| bacon                                            | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy       | **+1**    |
| swiss cheese                                     | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty         | **0**     |
| garlic sauce                                     | sauce   | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy               | **−12**   |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise                         | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **−12**   |
| mustard                                          | sauce   | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth       | **−6**    |
| lettuce                                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+2**    |
| tomato                                           | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+4**    |
| onionsscored as Onion                            | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **0**     |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber)               | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled     | **−7**    |
| pepperoncini                                     | acid    | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet       | **−6**    |

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

- **Pastrami + Swiss Cheese**: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
- **Pastrami + Mustard**: deli law: sharp mustard against cured beef
- **Turkey + Bacon**: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- **Turkey + Swiss Cheese**: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- **Turkey + Mayonnaise**: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- **Turkey + Tomato**: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- **Bacon + Lettuce**: cool crunch against hot smoke
- **Bacon + Tomato**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- **Mayonnaise + Tomato**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

- Clear the board: sauce overload (-6).

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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.