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# BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger at Lumpy's Diner
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/antioch-lumpy-s-diner-bbq-bacon-cheeseburger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:10:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:10:55.000Z
- Description: Beef patty, homemade bbq sauce, bacon, crispy onion ring, american cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle on bun. Sandwich Score 84, excellent. At Lumpy's Diner, Antioch.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Lumpy's Diner](https://onesandwich.com/antioch-lumpy-s-diner/), a restaurant in Antioch, California.

Burger BunPickle (cucumber)TomatoLettuceAmerican CheeseOnion RingsBaconBBQ SauceBeefBurger Bun

**84**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

A burger with layers outside the form; six of six roles.

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

Balance

97

Harmony

100

Contrast

100

Structure

100

Focus

98

Composition

99

Quality

73

Envelope

95

More sweet 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.

**bun**, toasted: beef patty; homemade bbq sauce (house-made); bacon; crispy onion ring; american cheese (low tier); lettuce; tomato; pickle.

Worth a look: house-made: BBQ Sauce.

## Balance

salt2.3 · 90thacid1.2 · 79thfat2.0 · 42ndsweet1.2 · 90thumami1.6 · 53rdheat0.0bitter0.0 · 37th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.3   | 90th               |
| acid   | 1.2   | 79th               |
| fat    | 2.0   | 42nd               |
| sweet  | 1.2   | 90th               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 53rd               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | 37th               |

**97** 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    |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------- | --------- |
| bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun                 | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                      | the frame |
| beef pattyscored as Beef                           | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender          | **+2**    |
| homemade bbq sauce (house-made)scored as BBQ Sauce | sauce   | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy         | **0**     |
| bacon                                              | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy         | **+2**    |
| crispy onion ringscored as Onion Rings             | texture | fat 3 salt 2 sweet 2 crunchy crispy fried | **0**     |
| american cheese (low tier)                         | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty   | **−3**    |
| lettuce                                            | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                       | **0**     |
| tomato                                             | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh   | **+1**    |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber)                  | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled       | **+6**    |

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 + BBQ Sauce**: brisket law: bbq sauce on smoked beef
- **Beef + Onion Rings**: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- **Beef + American Cheese**: cheesesteak law: melted american on beef
- **Beef + Pickle (cucumber)**: pickle brine against rich beef
- **BBQ Sauce + Bacon**: smoke on smoke: bacon under bbq sauce
- **BBQ Sauce + Onion Rings**: onion sharpens sweet bbq sauce
- **Bacon + Lettuce**: cool crunch against hot smoke
- **Bacon + Tomato**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core

## 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.