A sandwich at The Parish Cafe, a sandwich shop in Healdsburg, California.
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
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
| 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).
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