A wrap at Cafe Benedict, a cafe in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
Uncharted, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
warm lavash bread, toasted: marinated grilled chicken or gyro; sumac onions; pickles; tomatoes; choice of homemade tzatziki, tahini, garlic aioli.
Worth a look: house-made: Tzatziki; ingredient not in the pantry: Sumac Onions.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 78th |
| acid | 2.3 | 90th |
| fat | 1.0 | 14th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 55th |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| warm lavash breadscored as Pita | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| marinated grilled chicken or gyroscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +27 |
| sumac onions | not scored | ||
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +14 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +14 |
| choice of homemade tzatziki, tahini, garlic aioliscored as Tzatziki | sauce | acid 3 fat 2 creamy saucy | +17 |
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
- Chicken + Pickle (cucumber): fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.01 short).
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