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# Sea Blue Burger at Jersey Joe's Coastside
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-jersey-joe-s-coastside-sea-blue-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:21:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:21:26.000Z
- Description: Beef patty, blue cheese, roasted seaweed, ripe tomato, fresh red onions on Burger Bun. Sandwich Score 83, excellent. At Jersey Joe's Coastside, Half Moon Bay.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Jersey Joe's Coastside](https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-jersey-joe-s-coastside/), a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.

Burger BunOnionTomatoBlue Cheese (gorgon…BeefBurger Bun

**83**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

Reads as a fully realized roast beef, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Balance

87

Harmony

87

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

84

Quality

100

Envelope

92

More bitter 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.

**burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich)**, toasted: beef patty; blue cheese; roasted seaweed; ripe tomato; fresh red onions.

Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Nori (dried seaweed).

## Balance

salt1.5 · 74thacid0.4 · 41stfat2.4 · 60thsweet0.7 · 80thumami2.3 · 86thheat0.1 · 55thbitter0.7 · 90th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.5   | 74th               |
| acid   | 0.4   | 41st               |
| fat    | 2.4   | 60th               |
| sweet  | 0.7   | 80th               |
| umami  | 2.3   | 86th               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 55th               |
| bitter | 0.7   | 90th               |

**87** 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     |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                            | the frame  |
| beef pattyscored as Beef                        | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender                | **+2**     |
| blue cheesescored as Blue Cheese (gorgonzola)   | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 bitter 2 creamy soft melty | **+14**    |
| roasted seaweed                                 |         |                                                 | not scored |
| ripe tomatoscored as Tomato                     | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh         | **+12**    |
| fresh red onionsscored as Onion                 | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+3**     |

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

- **Beef + Blue Cheese (gorgonzola)**: steakhouse pair: blue cheese on beef
- **Beef + Onion**: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style

## How to raise it

- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.

[All the sandwiches at Jersey Joe's Coastside](https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-jersey-joe-s-coastside/) · [The menu this was read from](https://jerseyjoescoastside.com/?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.