A sandwich at Old Princeton Landing Public House and Grill, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
brioche bun, toasted: grilled halibut or rock cod; pico de gallo; cabbage; butter lettuce; tartar.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 57th |
| acid | 1.3 | 81st |
| fat | 1.6 | 28th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 68th |
| umami | 0.9 | 27th |
| heat | 0.4 | 82nd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 40th |
92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| brioche bunscored as Brioche | bread | fat 2 soft | the frame |
| grilled halibut or rock codscored as Fish (generic) | protein | umami 3 fat 2 soft flaky tender | +6 |
| pico de galloscored as Salsa | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 juicy saucy | −2 |
| cabbage | bulk | crunchy fresh raw | +1 |
| butter lettucescored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tartarscored as Tartar Sauce | sauce | fat 4 acid 3 salt 2 creamy saucy | +6 |
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.
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