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Gyro Pita at Yafa Hummus

Halal seasoned beef, fresh tomatoes, onions, house-made tzatziki on warm pita. Sandwich Score 87, outstanding. At Yafa Hummus, Dublin.

A sandwich at Yafa Hummus, a restaurant in Dublin, California.

PitaTzatzikiOnionTomatoBeefPita
87
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · outstanding

Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.

A roast beef with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Balance
93
Harmony
90
Contrast
85
Structure
96
Focus
100
Composition
98
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.

warm pita, toasted: halal seasoned beef; fresh tomatoes; onions; house-made tzatziki (house-made).

Worth a look: house-made: Tzatziki.

Balance

salt0.7 · 41stacid1.3 · 82ndfat1.6 · 29thsweet0.4 · 50thumami1.7 · 61stheat0.1 · 55thbitter0.1 · 48th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.741st
acid1.382nd
fat1.629th
sweet0.450th
umami1.761st
heat0.155th
bitter0.148th

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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
warm pitascored as Pitabreadsoft chewythe frame
halal seasoned beefscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+18
fresh tomatoesscored as Tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+9
onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+15
house-made tzatziki (house-made)scored as Tzatzikisauceacid 3 fat 2 creamy saucy+16

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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