A sandwich at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
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
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
| 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).
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