A sandwich at Boca Pizzeria, a restaurant in Corte Madera, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
Reads as a fully realized meatball sub, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
ciabatta bread, toasted: meatballs; marinara sauce; provolone cheese; mixed greens.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 0.8 | 62nd |
| fat | 2.0 | 45th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 66th |
| umami | 2.9 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciabatta breadscored as Ciabatta | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| meatballsscored as Meatball | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 soft juicy tender | +25 |
| marinara saucescored as Marinara | sauce | acid 3 umami 3 salt 2 sweet 2 soft saucy wet | +28 |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +18 |
| mixed greens | not scored |
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
- Meatball + Marinara: marinara is the meatball's native sauce
- Meatball + Provolone: provolone melted over the meatball sub
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.01 short).
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