Some of the best burgers in town are coming out of a hole in the wall in Salford

In the rankings of sentences you didn’t think you’d ever write, the headline above has to be up there with ‘I had a superb meal sitting in my car on an industrial estate the other day’.

But here I am, for a second consecutive day, neon orange buffalo wing sauce in my beard and hoping that I can still find that voucher for a free valet in the glove box.

A man in a van pulls up next to me to pick up his order, sees the state of what’s inside my car, and nods at me like we’re in a special club together.

“If you know, you know, mate,” he says. I can’t really reply, so I mutter something probably stupid through a mouthful of chicken, and notice the rat traps running the length of the factory unit in front of me for the first time.

I remember once seeing a giant raven pecking at the corpse of a dead rat on the hot tarmac of a Burger King drive-thru in Croydon. It was strangely apocalyptic, and I still think of it sometimes.

Though this is a fair few rungs above that troubling experience, my point is that this is not a particularly lovely spot, and perhaps not where the people behind Burgerism would choose that you consume their very hard work. So I apologise for that.

This slick operation runs out of what’s commonly known as a ‘dark kitchen’ on the Willan Industrial Estate in Salford.

It's sandwiched between an electrical wholesalers and Schiedt & Bachmann, a company head quartered in Mönchengladbach which makes mass transport fare collection systems.

A dark kitchen is a place with no sitting capacity and where food is made primarily for taking elsewhere, and though there is a single afterthought of a garden bench outside, it was cold and Storm Dudley was just starting to throw his weight about.

I’ll enjoy the al fresco