The Brewery Tap isn't simply somewhere for a pint and Thai food.

Its Westgate building also played a fascinating role in the story of Oakham Ales and Peterborough's brewing history.

Thai food, hoppy beer and a surprising piece of Peterborough brewing history under one roof.

Is Bijou a café, cocktail bar, brunch spot or night-out venue?

Peterborough's Bridge Street independent changes character depending on when you arrive.

Coffee at eleven, cocktails later and a private basement downstairs.

Bijou doesn't make choosing one identity easy.

Bombay Brasserie and New Theatre sit almost opposite each other on Broadway.

Start with curry, rice and naan, cross the road and let somebody else provide Act Two.

“Fancy a coffee?” can mean almost anything.

We pick three very different Peterborough places depending on whether you want a catch-up, Portuguese pastry temptation or somewhere greener to escape to.

 

Breakfast doesn't always have to behave itself.

The Chalkboard is part of Peterborough's increasingly interesting brunch scene and yes, churros can apparently count as a morning decision.

Eggs, brunch and the very persuasive argument for eating churros before lunch.

Grey Peterborough skies outside, Sicilian food inside.

Fratelli brings together pizza, pasta, family-run Italian hospitality and a deli that makes leaving empty-handed surprisingly difficult.

Warm scones, strawberry jam, clotted cream and a 17th-century manor house.

Afternoon tea at Orton Hall is as much about losing a couple of hours as what's on the three-tier stand.

Take Mum, Granny, a friend or somebody you want to impress.

 Orton Hall makes afternoon tea feel like an occasion before the cakes even arrive.

 

Three Peterborough food experiences where you're getting considerably more than another restaurant table.

Eat on a historic Dutch barge, have lunch inside an old Peterborough railway building or get stuck into a communal seafood boil. 

Three local meals where the experience matters almost as much as the food.

Peterborough has a café tucked away near Newark Road serving pizzas by the metre.

We went looking at the story behind one of the city's more unusual things to order.

What does a 3-star food hygiene rating actually mean, and should anything below a 5 put you off dinner?

We explain Peterborough's ratings without the panic.

A 3 does not mean what many diners assume.

Here is what Peterborough's 0–5 food hygiene ratings actually tell you.

Smoked brisket, ribs and pulled pork are becoming much more visible around Peterborough.

With Hickory's now open in Hampton and independent BBQ already established nearby, is smokehouse food having its burger moment?

Peterborough has discovered smoked brisket.

Is American-style BBQ becoming the next big local food obsession?

Got Tesco Clubcard vouchers sitting unused?

They can currently be doubled with Reward Partners. We look at how that can cut the cost of eating out  and the small print to check before converting them.

£10 of Clubcard vouchers can currently become £20 with Reward Partners.

Here's how to use them for eating out without wasting the value.

A Friday-night Indian takeaway can head towards £40 remarkably quickly. We challenge Laura to make chicken tikka masala, pilau rice and naan at home and see whether homemade can genuinely compete.

Chicken tikka masala, pilau rice and naan versus the Friday-night takeaway.

 Can Laura make something we'd actually rather eat?

What wine actually works with Sunday lunch? French wine expert Olivier explains what to look for with beef, lamb and chicken without turning dinner into a wine course.

Beef, lamb or chicken? Olivier makes Sunday-roast wine considerably less intimidating and explains why the rest of the plate matters too.

Three village lunch escapes close to Peterborough, taking us to Helpston, Etton and Wansford for the kind of meal that can turn into a small afternoon out.

You don't need an hour-long drive to make lunch feel like a trip. Try Helpston, Etton or Wansford and make an afternoon of it.

Three Peterborough pubs with very different personalities, from a historic back-street local and award-winning micropub to weekend karaoke on Lincoln Road.

Forget the interchangeable chain pub. These three Peterborough locals have history, beer, music, karaoke and enough personality to make the venue part of the night.

Three very different Peterborough-area birthday meal ideas, from a private dining room to a food-led hotel experience and a more relaxed local celebration.

The best birthday restaurant depends on whether you're feeding a crowd, making the food the present or simply getting everybody around one table.

 Here are three different Peterborough-area options.

Five Peterborough-area food stops where shopping can become part of the day, from the city market to farm shops with cafés, local produce, walks and family attractions.

Need something for Sunday lunch, fancy a farm-shop wander or just want somewhere different for coffee and cake? 

These five Peterborough-area food stops give you a reason to make more of the weekly shop.

Three very different Peterborough-area ways to spend an afternoon over tea and cake, from a casual Central Park stop to afternoon tea at Ferry Meadows and Wansford.

You don't always need dinner and drinks to make an occasion of going out. These three Peterborough-area stops offer three very different excuses to spend an afternoon doing remarkably little.

Three Peterborough places showing how much wider vegetarian and vegan eating can be, from plant-based Mexican cooking to Nepalese and Indian flavours.

Vegetarian dinner doesn't have to mean everybody else chooses the restaurant and you find the one dish you can eat.

These three Peterborough menus take things in rather different directions.

Three Peterborough food and drink stops where the surroundings give you almost as much to talk about as what's on the table.

If another ordinary restaurant table isn't quite what you're after, Peterborough has an old railway building, a historic barge and a museum coffee house that turn eating and drinking into part of the outing.

Three independent Peterborough lunch stops offering Italian food, Indian street food and a lighter coffee-and-cake option when you fancy something beyond the usual chains.

Got 45 minutes and heading for the same lunch again?

Here are three Peterborough independents that could change the routine.

Three Peterborough food stops offering West African, Portuguese and Nepalese food when you fancy something beyond your usual restaurant order.

If dinner keeps ending up at the same familiar places, Peterborough has other options.

Here are three that can take the evening in a completely different direction.

What was for dinner around Peterborough 3,000 years ago?

 Archaeologists at Must Farm near Whittlesey uncovered an extraordinarily well-preserved Bronze Age settlement, including cooking items and fish traps that help reveal everyday life before supermarkets, restaurants or Deliveroo were even a particularly distant dream.

Peterborough Museum is now developing a permanent display around the discoveries - but we have a more important question: would you have coped with the menu?

Biscuits, bread, cakes, confectionery, snacks and breakfast cereals have been produced around the world using machinery connected to one famous Peterborough engineering name: Baker Perkins.

The company's story stretches back to the 19th century, and Peterborough Libraries & Archives now holds its archive.

So next time you open a packet of biscuits, here's a strange thought: Peterborough may have played a small part in the machinery behind food like i

A night at the theatre or a concert should be simple: get dressed, go out, enjoy the show.

Yet somehow dinner can turn it into a military operation.

Eat too early and nobody's hungry.

 Leave it until afterwards and half the kitchens may be winding down.

Skip it completely and by the interval you're thinking considerably more about chips than what's happening on stage.

With a busy October coming up at the Key Theatre and Peterborough Cathedral, perhaps we need to settle the great dinner-before-or-after debate.

Peterborough's Halloween calendar is already filling up with ghost walks, outdoor films, parties, a new drone show and even Halloween cocktails.

 But there's one bit of the evening that's remarkably easy to forget until somebody says, “I'm starving.” Here's our very simple rule for October: if you've planned the scary bit, plan the food bit too.

Been saying “we should go one Friday” all summer?

This is the awkward bit where Friday has finally run out.

Foodie Fridays is scheduled for its final evening of the season at Ferry Meadows today, with street food and drinks from 3pm and live music from 5pm.

So if dinner tonight currently consists of opening the fridge three times and hoping something more exciting appears, there is another option.

Every area has one. The place you nearly don't want to tell everybody about because getting a table is already difficult enough.

 It might be a tiny café, a neighbourhood takeaway, a bakery working from somebody's kitchen or a pub you'd never find unless someone told you.

We're looking for Peterborough's places that deserve considerably more attention.

Most of us know exactly how we like our coffee but considerably less about what happened to the beans before they reached the cup.

At The Bean Around in Cathedral Square, the story starts closer to home: this family-owned café and roastery roasts coffee in small batches right here in Peterborough.

So does drinking locally roasted coffee actually make a difference?