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# Ultimate at Bay Area Bagels
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels-ultimate/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:18:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:18:08.000Z
- Description: Fried egg, ham, american cheese on Bagel. Sandwich Score 52, solid. At Bay Area Bagels, Burlingame.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Bay Area Bagels](https://onesandwich.com/burlingame-bay-area-bagels/), a bakery in Burlingame, California.

BagelAmerican CheeseHamEggBagel

**52**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +20.

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

**Holding the summit:** real textural contrast, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance

67

Harmony

78

Contrast

26

Structure

88

Focus

100

Composition

71

Quality

75

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.

**Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich)**, served cold: fried egg; ham; american cheese (low tier).

## Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.0fat2.9 · 76thsweet0.6 · 70thumami2.3 · 85thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.0   | 88th               |
| acid   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| fat    | 2.9   | 76th               |
| sweet  | 0.6   | 70th               |
| umami  | 2.3   | 85th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**68** 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 (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread   | soft chewy                              | the frame |
| fried eggscored as Egg                     | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy       | **+14**   |
| ham                                        | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender  | **0**     |
| american cheese (low tier)                 | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | **+8**    |

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 + American Cheese**: diner law: american melts into soft egg

## How to raise it

- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.

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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.