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Deluxe Caesar Wrap at Dolores Deluxe

Grilled chicken breast, shredded romaine, Deluxe Caesar dressing, lemon zest, nigella-pepita-parmesan crisps, black pepper on La Palma flour tortilla. Sandwich Score 59, solid. At Dolores Deluxe, San Francisco.

A wrap at Dolores Deluxe, a corner store in San Francisco, California.

TortillaLemonCaesar DressingLettuceChickenTortilla
59
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid. Small moves left on the board.

Uncharted, six of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
95
Harmony
67
Contrast
88
Structure
100
Focus
100
Composition
40
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.

La Palma flour tortilla, served cold: grilled chicken breast; shredded romaine; Deluxe Caesar dressing (house-made); lemon zest; nigella-pepita-parmesan crisps (house-made); black pepper.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Dolores Deluxe's typical score.

Balance

salt1.0 · 53rdacid1.6 · 90thfat1.5 · 26thsweet0.3 · 35thumami1.5 · 52ndheat0.0bitter0.4 · 81st
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.053rd
acid1.690th
fat1.526th
sweet0.335th
umami1.552nd
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.481st

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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
La Palma flour tortillascored as Tortillabreadsoftthe frame
grilled chicken breastscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+4
shredded romainescored as Lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+7
Deluxe Caesar dressing (house-made)scored as Caesar Dressingsaucefat 4 salt 3 umami 3 acid 2 creamy saucy+11
lemon zestscored as Lemonacidacid 4 juicy+4
nigella-pepita-parmesan crisps (house-made)not scored
black peppernot 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.

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