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# Southwestern Burger at Lola's Chicken Shack
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack-southwestern-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:06:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:06:12.000Z
- Description: Grilled chicken patty, fire roasted hatch chili, cheddar cheese, honey cured bacon, pico de gallo, crispy onions, cholula aioli on toasted bun. Sandwich Score 72, very good. 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 BunOnionSalsaBaconCheddar CheeseChickenBurger Bun

**72**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +14.

A chicken bacon melt with layers outside the form; six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

99

Harmony

85

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

63

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; fire roasted hatch chili; cheddar cheese; honey cured bacon; pico de gallo; crispy onions; cholula aioli.

Worth a look: named producer: NEW:Cholula Aioli; ingredient not in the pantry: Cholula Aioli.

## Balance

salt2.0 · 87thacid0.9 · 64thfat2.2 · 53rdsweet0.5 · 66thumami2.2 · 82ndheat0.4 · 83rdbitter0.1 · 39th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.0   | 87th               |
| acid   | 0.9   | 64th               |
| fat    | 2.2   | 53rd               |
| sweet  | 0.5   | 66th               |
| umami  | 2.2   | 82nd               |
| heat   | 0.4   | 83rd               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 39th               |

**99** 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      | **0**      |
| fire roasted hatch chili                   |         |                                       | not scored |
| cheddar cheese                             | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | **+11**    |
| honey cured baconscored as Bacon           | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy     | **+10**    |
| pico de galloscored as Salsa               | sauce   | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 juicy saucy      | **+10**    |
| crispy onionsscored as Onion               | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh           | **+5**     |
| cholula aioli                              |         |                                       | not 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.

## Pairings

- **Chicken + Bacon**: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- **Cheddar Cheese + Bacon**: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- **Cheddar Cheese + Onion**: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair

## How to raise it

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

- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.17 short).

[All the sandwiches at Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/) · [The menu this was read from](https://lolaschickenshack.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.