A burger at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
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.
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
| 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 · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder