Sometimes you remember the building almost as much as the food.

Peterborough has plenty of places where you can sit at a table, order something and go home again.

But it also has a few where somebody walking in for the first time is likely to stop and look around before they've even decided what they're drinking.

Here are three that turn a food or drink stop into a little more of an outing.

The Shed: have a drink in Peterborough's railway history

The Shed – Tap Room & Deli at Fletton Quays isn't pretending to look vaguely industrial because somebody thought exposed brick was fashionable.

It's inside one of the surviving buildings from Peterborough East railway station.

The converted 19th-century engine shed retains railway touches including signal lamps, memorabilia and a large Peterborough East station sign.

Then there's the modern reason for going: craft beer, cask ale, cider and Italian deli-style food.

It's a particularly good Peterborough combination order something to eat or drink, then realise you're sitting inside a surviving piece of the city's railway story.

Location: Fletton Quays, Peterborough

The Shed – Tap Room & Deli

Charters: dinner and drinks on a 1907 Dutch barge

There aren't many occasions when “Where shall we go for a drink?” can reasonably be answered with:

“How about a 119-year-old Dutch barge?”

But Peterborough can manage it.

Charters has been moored beside Town Bridge since 1991, but the barge itself dates from 1907.

The bar is below deck, with food upstairs, while the riverside location gives you something rather different from walking into another conventional pub or restaurant.

It's the sort of Peterborough place that's particularly handy when you're taking somebody out who doesn't know the city well.

You don't have to manufacture the conversation.

You're sitting on it.

Location: Town Bridge, Peterborough

Charters Bar

Squires Coffee House: make the museum last a little longer

Then there's a much quieter version of the same idea.

Squires Coffee House sits inside Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery.

That makes it less of a destination restaurant and more of an excellent answer to:

“What shall we do after we've looked around the museum?”

Coffee, tea, cake or a sandwich means you don't immediately have to head somewhere else when the museum visit finishes.

It's also the sort of combination Taste Trail should probably hunt down more often: something to see + somewhere to eat or drink = an actual afternoon out.

Location: Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough

Peterborough Museum & Squires Coffee House

Where else has Peterborough hidden a good meal?

These three aren't really competing with one another.

That's the point.

One gives you railway history and a pint. One puts you on a century-old barge. One lets you add coffee and cake to a museum afternoon.

And it makes us wonder what else we've missed.

Tell us in the comments: which Peterborough pub, café or restaurant has a setting that's worth going for in its own right?