A CLASSIC beefburger topped with pulled pork and chorizo, garnished with a slice of fresh pineapple and a squeeze of hot sauce.

Ask James Lees to describe his favourite burger and you could be forgiven for thinking he's describing the entire menu of one of the city's top restaurants.

This particular kitchen might not be Michelin starred, but it has the most impressive menu in town, according to the food aficionado who set up the massively popular blog James vs Burger two years ago with his girlfriend Pamela Graham.

In that time James has chomped his way across Glasgow in the quest for the perfect burger, sampling everything from sweet chilli pork and wild boar to smokey chipotle chilli and bacon and brie in the quest for the perfect food fix.

The 29-year-old from Rutherglen says when it comes to the best bite in a bun, he has to agree with the 750,000 readers of his blog who voted chef Andrew Yates's offerings for Meathammer at Nice N Sleazy in Sauchiehall Street the best burgers in Glasgow.

"We call him the mad scientist of meat because of the combinations he puts together," says James.

"You look at some of the things on the menu and think 'that will never work, it's crazy', then you try it and it does work."

With readers as far afield as Japan, America and Canada, the burger blog is inching closer to reaching one million hits. Not bad for an idea dreamed up one night when James and Pamela were looking for a burger and didn't know where to go.

"I looked online to see if I could find any ideas and there really wasn't anything," says James.

"If you Googled 'best burger in Glasgow' it brought up nothing at all.

"We knew there was loads of good stuff out there and were really surprised there wasn't any recognition or praise."

James, who works as a social media consultant, and Pamela, a keen photographer, were keen to set up a website and so James vs Burger was born.

Their taste for the best-dressed burgers doesn't mean they eschew a healthy lifestyle.

"People look at the site and think we devour burgers every day, but we're very health conscious," says James.

"Generally we try to stick to one new review a week, but the rest of the time we are at the gym every day."

American film-maker Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me project holds no appeal for James, neither do the massive food challenges seen on US TV shows such Man Vs Food.

"I prefer quality over quantity," he says.

He does admit he was inspired by other burger blogs in America.

James's own love of the meat patty is pure and simple.

"When you go to a new restaurant or a new bar (and this was the case before we did the website) I'll find myself ordering a burger," he says.

"It's a good indicator to how good a place is. If they do a good burger the chances are the rest of the food is going to be good.

"Because they're so customisable, you can create whatever you want.

"It's a very photogenic dish as well, you always see people taking photographs of these big, massive burgers they're eating."

With nearly 3000 likes on Facebook and 2000 followers on Twitter, the website's readers are as important as the burgers.

"I don't know where they all came from, it felt like it was overnight, it still surprises me," says James. "People just love burgers."

The bite-size reviews are emailed to friends as the conversation about Glasgow's burgers grows and grows.

"You get a lot of discussion going on about the best burger, the worst, anything burger related or Glasgow related. Right now there's a big discussion about the test tube burger. We've created a real community."

One thing James makes very clear is that the opinions on the website are his own. Just because he loves a particular restaurant, it doesn't mean to say everyone else will.

So what does he think of the new gourmet burger eateries that have sprung up around the city?

"Burger Meats Bun, I think, is one of the best in the city at the moment," says James. "Those guys are trying to do something really good, bringing the whole London burger joint vibe to Glasgow."

There may be fears the eating out scene is being saturated with burgers but that's not a bad thing, according to James.

"The space the Meat Bar on West Regent Street is in had been lying empty for as long as I can remember.

"I'd rather see it as a successful burger joint than somewhere lying empty. I think more will pop up, people just can't seem to get enough of them."

Life isn't all long leisurely dinners for James, fine dining on the choicest cuts. He cites a burger in a Byres Road eaterie that looked like a hockey puck that had been beaten into submission by a rolling pin as one of the worst he has sampled.

"It was so dry it was almost crunchy, yet the bun was soggy and wet, it was just disgusting."

For better or for worse, the burger fad is a food trend Glaswegians don't seem to be losing their appetite for.