I try a burger from The Barn in London Road, Leicester

After my order from The Barn arrived I opened all the boxes and got out the burger, arranging everything for a photo, but I couldn't wait to get the burger in my mouth. It looked great and my mouth was watering.

I considered just taking a big bite and then turning the burger round so it didn't show. But I managed enough self-control to get the picture done before ramming it into my gob while still standing in the kitchen.

I'd gone for the sucuk and butter burger - a juicy piece of beef with sucak sausage, which I'd never heard of, and a burned butter mayo. It was soft and there were great flavours, helped along by the chunks of raw white onion in the sauce that provided some crunch.

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The sausage worked nicely with the beef and gave it an extra element. It was all gone in about three minutes but it was a great three minutes. The £7.50 burger also had a nice amount of cheese to help hold everything together and came in a very fancy box - they don't skimp on the packaging at The Barn.

Next up were the "crunch chicken tenders", drenched in sweet chili sauce. They were so moist the juice inside the boneless chicken squirted out as I bit into them and I dunked them into the generous pool of sauce at the bottom of the box as I ate my way through them.

I'd sort of planned to have one or two and save the rest for later. But all four - costing £5.50 - disappeared, one after the other, because they were too good to stop eating.

My meal also came with a can of Coke and a side helping of cheesey fries. I'd been asked to select a sauce with my chips and had gone for mayonnaise - but I didn't even open the pack because there was so much cheese on the chips it would have just saturated them.

The cheese wasn't anything special - the sort of orange goo you get on top of cinema nachos. The chips themselves were a strange canoe-shape, which I'd previously encountered at Boo in Gallowtree Gate, that were good for scooping up the cheese.

The chips were £3.75 and while there was nothing wrong with them they were a bit out-shone by the other two dishes. Despite being pretty stuffed already, I managed to get through them all - cold cheesey chips aren't the best kind of takeaway food to eat from the fridge the next morning.

Verdict

The Barn, described on its website as "a family-run burger restaurant in the heart of Leicester with a simple goal, to create flavoursome, juicy burgers with quality ingredients", definitely delivers on that goal. I'm not sure about the orange cheese, but the rest of it was a barnstorming bag of food - and it was a very nice bag. 5/5