A sandwich at Dolores Deluxe, a corner store in San Francisco, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +17.
Uncharted, 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.
Acme rustic baguette, served cold: fresh tomato; mint; whole milk mozzarella; pickled Armenian cucumbers (house-made); whipped labne (house-made); zaatar.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 60th |
| acid | 2.2 | 90th |
| fat | 1.1 | 15th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 76th |
| umami | 0.4 | 9th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.2 | 61st |
86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acme rustic baguette (high tier)scored as Baguette | bread | crispy soft flaky | the frame |
| fresh tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +4 |
| mint | aromatic | fresh herbal soft | +5 |
| whole milk mozzarellascored as Fresh Mozzarella | protein | fat 3 soft creamy melty | +12 |
| pickled Armenian cucumbers (house-made)scored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +8 |
| whipped labne (house-made)scored as Yogurt (labneh) | sauce | acid 3 fat 2 creamy silky saucy | +6 |
| zaatarscored as Sumac | aromatic | acid 3 powdery | −7 |
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
- Tomato + Fresh Mozzarella: caprese core: milky against sweet acid
- Mint + Pickle (cucumber): mint and cucumber, cool on cool
- Mint + Yogurt (labneh): mint in yogurt, raita and tzatziki logic
- Pickle (cucumber) + Yogurt (labneh): levantine cool: strained yogurt and crunch
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