Pink & Lily, Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire

£9.95 The burger comes with really super chips and a ramekin of coleslaw but alas it was overcooked and dry. However, there's potential here...

The Pink & Lily is a lovely, traditional pub set high on the edge of the Chilterns where, on previous visits, I've enjoyed some good grub and ale writes Amy of food blog Pies and Fries. Following a recent refurbishment and menu revamp I decided it was time for me and The Ewing (my intrepid, burger-loving other half) to don our rural burger dectective caps and revisit it...

The Eight Bells, Saffron Walden, Essex

£10 buys you a homemade 7oz burger (with or without bacon and mature cheddar) and skinny fries. Problem is, it's bloody awful

Pavel Le Bouche of How Not To Do A Food Blog knows the Eight Bells in Safron Walden well – he worked there for two years while he was at college. A lot has changed since then, owners have come and gone, so Pavel returned, wondering if the ancient beamed pub still serves up a great burger...

The Red Lion, Horsell, Surrey

£10.75 for a Gourmet Burger with Scotch beef, grilled bacon & emmental cheese. Something of a classic composition, impressively executed

Nick Andrews, the burger loving chap that writes London burger blog Burger Me! tells of a delightfully sunny burger experience shared with friends at The Red Lion in  Horsell, Surrey...

The Hare and Hounds, Old Warden, Bedfordshire

£10.95 for the Burger of the Day (which was lamb) and hand cut chips. There was a lot of garlic mayo, but there was also a lot of promise...

Today we took a 10 mile drive to Old Warden, a typical chocolate box village surrounded by fields and immaculate gardens - write burger detectives @gubgub08 & @hayleymudge, aka Diagnosis Burger, reporting for Midsomer Burgers' debut review. Nice as it was, our trip wasn't about the scenery. We'd come specifically to check out The Hare and Hounds pub on account of it's reputation: it was named Best Dining Pub in Bedfordshire 2010 in the Good Pub Guide, and appears as a "recommended restaurant" in the Good Food Guide.