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# Pesto B Burger at Lola's Chicken Shack
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack-pesto-b-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:06:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:06:03.000Z
- Description: Grilled chicken patty, basil pesto sauce, provolone cheese, red onion, lettuce, tomato on toasted bun. Sandwich Score 77, excellent. At Lola's Chicken Shack, Alameda.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/), a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.

Burger BunTomatoLettuceOnionProvolonePestoChickenBurger Bun

**77**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent, with one move worth +9.

A chicken pesto sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.

**Holding the summit:** better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)

Balance

82

Harmony

85

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

84

Quality

78

Envelope

100

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.

**toasted bun**, toasted: grilled chicken patty; basil pesto sauce; provolone cheese; red onion; lettuce; tomato.

## Balance

salt1.3 · 65thacid0.3 · 35thfat2.1 · 49thsweet0.5 · 64thumami2.1 · 80thheat0.1 · 50thbitter0.3 · 81st

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.3   | 65th               |
| acid   | 0.3   | 35th               |
| fat    | 2.1   | 49th               |
| sweet  | 0.5   | 64th               |
| umami  | 2.1   | 80th               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 50th               |
| bitter | 0.3   | 81st               |

**82** 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    |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| toasted bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                    | the frame |
| grilled chicken pattyscored as Chicken     | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender        | **+12**   |
| basil pesto saucescored as Pesto           | sauce   | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy       | **+7**    |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone        | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty         | **−1**    |
| red onionscored as Onion                   | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **−1**    |
| lettuce                                    | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **0**     |
| tomato                                     | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+11**   |

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

- **Chicken + Pesto**: pesto gives mild chicken a green engine

## How to raise it

Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

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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.