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Monterey at North Park Deli

Roast beef, monterey jack cheese, mushrooms marinated in a wine and butter sauce on french roll. Sandwich Score 50, solid. At North Park Deli, Concord.

A sandwich at North Park Deli, a deli in Concord, California.

Hoagie RollMushroomMonterey JackBeefHoagie Roll
50
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +21.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

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

Balance
68
Harmony
80
Contrast
68
Structure
86
Focus
100
Composition
25
Quality
100
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.

french roll, toasted: roast beef; monterey jack cheese; mushrooms marinated in a wine and butter sauce.

Balance

salt1.2 · 59thacid0.0fat1.9 · 41stsweet0.0umami2.0 · 74thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.259th
acid0.0n/a
fat1.941st
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.074th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
french rollscored as Hoagie Rollbreadsoft crustythe frame
roast beefscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+5
monterey jack cheesescored as Monterey Jackproteinfat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty−1
mushrooms marinated in a wine and butter saucescored as Mushroombulkumami 2 soft springy juicy+3

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.

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