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

After my order from The Barn arrived, I opened all the boxes and took out the burger, setting everything up for a photo, but I couldn’t wait to put the burger in my mouth. It looked great and made my mouth water.

I thought about taking a big bite and then flipping the burger so it wouldn’t show. But I managed enough self-control to take the picture before shoving it in the gob while still sitting in the kitchen.

I went for the sucuk and butter burger – a juicy piece of beef with sucak sausage, which I had never heard of, and a burnt butter mayo. It was soft and had great flavors, helped by the chunks of raw white onion in the sauce that provided a little crunch.

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The sausage worked beautifully 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 good amount of cheese to help hold it all together and came in a very stylish box – they don’t skimp on the packaging at The Barn.

Next comes the crunch chicken tenders, drenched in sweet chili sauce. They were so moist that the juices from the boneless chicken oozed out as I bit into them and I dunked them in the generous pool of sauce at the bottom of the box as I ate through them.

I intended 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 pass up.

My meal also came with a can of Coke and a side of cheese fries. I was asked to choose a sauce with my chips and I opted for mayo – but I didn’t even open the packet because there was so much cheese on the chips it would have overwhelmed them.

The cheese was nothing special – the kind of orange hood you get on top of nachos at the movie theater. The chips themselves were oddly shaped like canoes, which I had previously encountered at Boo’s in Gallowtree Gate, which were good for picking up the cheese.

The chips were £3.75 and although there was nothing wrong with them they were slightly overshadowed by the other two dishes. Despite being pretty full already, I managed to get through it all – cold cheesy chips are not the best takeaway 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 aim to create juicy, juicy burgers with quality ingredients”, certainly delivers on that aim. Not sure about the orange cheese, but the rest was a bag of food – and a very nice bag it was. 5/5