A wrap at Falafel Fremont, a restaurant in Fremont, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a fully realized falafel pita, six of six roles on the board.
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.
pita bread, served cold: falafel; lettuce; onions; tomatoes; pickles; hummus.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 78th |
| acid | 1.4 | 86th |
| fat | 1.3 | 20th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 64th |
| umami | 1.0 | 28th |
| heat | 0.3 | 74th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pita breadscored as Pita | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| falafel | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 crunchy crispy fried | +11 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +3 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +4 |
| hummus | sauce | fat 3 creamy | +12 |
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
- Falafel + Pickle (cucumber): pickle bite against fried chickpea
- Falafel + Hummus: falafel on hummus, the pita standard
- Pickle (cucumber) + Hummus: cool crunch over nutty hummus
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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