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# The 'Rachel' Pastrami at Jersey Joe's Coastside
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/half-moon-bay-jersey-joe-s-coastside-the-rachel-pastrami/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:21:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:21:34.000Z
- Description: Sliced pastrami, swiss cheese, house made coleslaw, dressing on grilled rye bread. Sandwich Score 74, very good. At Jersey Joe's Coastside, Half Moon Bay.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

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

Rye BreadColeslawSwiss CheesePastramiRye Bread

**74**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +16.

Leans toward a pastrami on rye, three of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

95

Harmony

91

Contrast

87

Structure

88

Focus

100

Composition

64

Quality

100

Envelope

100

More salt 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.

**grilled rye bread**, toasted: sliced pastrami; swiss cheese; house made coleslaw; dressing.

Worth a look: house-made: Coleslaw; ingredient not in the pantry: Dressing.

## Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid0.7 · 58thfat2.3 · 57thsweet0.2 · 27thumami2.3 · 84thheat0.3 · 75thbitter0.3 · 79th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.1   | 90th               |
| acid   | 0.7   | 58th               |
| fat    | 2.3   | 57th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 27th               |
| umami  | 2.3   | 84th               |
| heat   | 0.3   | 75th               |
| bitter | 0.3   | 79th               |

**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     |
| ------------------------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| grilled rye breadscored as Rye Bread  | bread   | bitter 2 soft crusty                   | the frame  |
| sliced pastramiscored as Pastrami     | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | **+17**    |
| swiss cheese                          | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty        | **+14**    |
| house made coleslawscored as Coleslaw | bulk    | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed    | **+7**     |
| dressing                              |         |                                        | not scored |

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

- **Rye Bread + Pastrami**: pastrami on rye, the new york standard
- **Pastrami + Swiss Cheese**: melted swiss rounds peppered beef

## How to raise it

- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.16 short).

[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.