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# Roast Beef at The Parish Cafe
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/healdsburg-the-parish-cafe-roast-beef/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:28:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:28:18.000Z
- Description: House made roast beef, debris gravy, mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickles on Baguette. Sandwich Score 74, very good. At The Parish Cafe, Healdsburg.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [The Parish Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/healdsburg-the-parish-cafe/), a sandwich shop in Healdsburg, California.

BaguettePickle (cucumber)TomatoLettuceMayonnaiseGravyBeefBaguette

**74**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +15.

Leans toward a roast beef, six of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

98

Harmony

87

Contrast

96

Structure

100

Focus

90

Composition

64

Quality

100

Envelope

100

More acid 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.

**Baguette (inferred from the kind of sandwich)**, toasted: house made roast beef (house-made); debris gravy; mayo; lettuce; tomato; pickles.

Worth a look: house-made: Roast Beef.

## Balance

salt1.8 · 82ndacid1.6 · 90thfat2.1 · 47thsweet0.3 · 42ndumami1.7 · 61stheat0.0bitter0.1 · 38th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.8   | 82nd               |
| acid   | 1.6   | 90th               |
| fat    | 2.1   | 47th               |
| sweet  | 0.3   | 42nd               |
| umami  | 1.7   | 61st               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.1   | 38th               |

**98** 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    |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| Baguette (inferred from the kind of sandwich)    | bread   | crispy soft flaky                       | the frame |
| house made roast beef (house-made)scored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender        | **+10**   |
| debris gravyscored as Gravy                      | sauce   | umami 4 salt 3 fat 3 saucy wet silky    | **−10**   |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise                         | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **+8**    |
| lettuce                                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+8**    |
| tomato                                           | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+10**   |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber)               | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled     | **+4**    |

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 + Pickle (cucumber)**: pickle brine against rich beef
- **Mayonnaise + Tomato**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

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

[All the sandwiches at The Parish Cafe](https://onesandwich.com/healdsburg-the-parish-cafe/) · [The menu this was read from](https://theparishcafe.com/menu?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.