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# Meatball Sub at Louies Lasagna
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/gilroy-louies-lasagna-meatball-sub/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:15:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:15:53.000Z
- Description: 3 big meatballs, mozzarella, parmesan, red sauce on garlic roll. Sandwich Score 87, outstanding. At Louies Lasagna, Gilroy.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Louies Lasagna](https://onesandwich.com/gilroy-louies-lasagna/), a restaurant in Gilroy, California.

Hoagie RollMarinaraParmesanMozzarellaMeatballHoagie Roll

**87**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · outstanding

Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.

Reads as a fully realized meatball sub, four of six roles on the board.

Balance

95

Harmony

100

Contrast

80

Structure

96

Focus

100

Composition

94

Quality

100

Envelope

99

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.

**garlic roll**, toasted: 3 big meatballs; mozzarella; parmesan; red sauce.

## Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.6 · 54thfat2.3 · 54thsweet0.4 · 51stumami2.7 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.0   | 88th               |
| acid   | 0.6   | 54th               |
| fat    | 2.3   | 54th               |
| sweet  | 0.4   | 51st               |
| umami  | 2.7   | 90th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | n/a                |

**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    |
| --------------------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| garlic rollscored as Hoagie Roll  | bread   | soft crusty                                  | the frame |
| 3 big meatballsscored as Meatball | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 soft juicy tender       | **+7**    |
| mozzarella                        | protein | fat 3 soft springy melty                     | **+2**    |
| parmesan                          | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 powdery melty           | **0**     |
| red saucescored as Marinara       | sauce   | acid 3 umami 3 salt 2 sweet 2 soft saucy wet | **+26**   |

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 + Mozzarella**: mozzarella melted over the meatball sub
- **Meatball + Marinara**: marinara is the meatball's native sauce
- **Mozzarella + Parmesan**: milky stretch under salty parmesan
- **Parmesan + Marinara**: parmesan salts the marinara's sweetness

## How to raise it

- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.

[All the sandwiches at Louies Lasagna](https://onesandwich.com/gilroy-louies-lasagna/) · [The menu this was read from](https://louieslasagna.com/menu?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.