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The bright and airy Riverside Brasserie at the Doubletree Hilton in Granta Place offers breakfast, lunch and dinner from set menus as well as à la carte in an elegant setting. Guests can enjoy lovely river views as they consider options on the European cuisine menu which includes British favourites. Private dining for up to 14 people with specially designed menus is also available at the venue.

Lunch or dinner at the Riverside Brasserie could include dishes like salad of poached Ely freshwater eel and bacon with truffle croutons, black pudding fritters with pan fried chicken livers, risotto of spring vegetables with parmesan and pan fried fillet of hung 28-day beef with wild mushrooms and a red wine jus. Enjoy South Downs lamb chop, Norfolk pork chop with glazed apple or freshwater salmon fillet from the grill. Round off with a chocolate and walnut brownie with whipped cream or caramelised strawberry custard. Complement the meal with a glass of a full flavoured rich dry white or a light fruity red.

Fryz is an award winning traditional Fish & Chip Shop and restaurantat the Bretton Centre in Peterborough. The shop is owned and operated by partners Rob and Caroline since its inception in February 2006.

The venue was winner of the Perfect Portion Award 2010 - Eastern Region Winner, and subsequently listed in The Times as 'One of the top 10 places to eat chips in Britain'. The restaurant is also the holder of the prestigious Seafish Fish Friers Quality Award. This award is presented to friers who meet exacting standards of quality throughout their business, from good fish and chips to helpful, friendly staff, high levels of hygiene, and good practices in handling and cooking food. Fryz is ranked as a 5 Star shop under the scheme - only the very best fish & chip shops are bestowed with this honour.

Misguided and unfriendly folk tend to be scathing about the Fens. At first hearing an invitation to Welle Creek sounds rather like the location for a re-make of The Blair Project. Not a bit of it. Here is a small, well-run family-run hotel with good local backing and a restaurant at the forefront of the operation. The menu is traditional and unfussed, in keeping with the well-managed informality of the entire establishment.

Adequate wine list with well-priced house wines.

Another member of the Huntsbridge Group, with the same open approach to the business, which describes its culinary policy as Mediterranean/Global, a very apt summary. Whilst you nibble on a bowl of warm olives or pork scratchings even, you may contemplate rare tuna nori rolls with nuoc cham and green mango salad. Salads can be particularly memorable; leek, potato, rocket, and chorizo with soft-boiled egg and bottarga for instance.

Try the pan-fried halibut with mashed peas, broad beans and a sprinkling of black olives, served on a plate slicked with mint oil and tapenade. Follow with pannacotta served with dark cherries and you will see that you are in the hands of experts. As with others in the Group the drinking of wine is intelligently tackled. There are over 30 bottles at £20 or under, with 16 house wines starting at around £12 a bottle. Pay special attention to the dessert wines.

Orton Hall is an attractive and quite unusual country house on the outskirts of Peterborough. There is original panelling about and the skyline has some affinity with the Victorian architects, Page and Garling, who remodelled Grimsthorpe Castle, not far away.

Chef Kevin Wood presides over a kitchen which produces good food from the last decades of the 20th century, so nothing too adventurous but all of it sound. Braised lamb shank, pasta with roast garlic and coriander sauce, all well-served by attentive and friendly staff.

A la Carte dinner costs about £28.00, lunch around £17.00 with house wine coming in at £11.50.

A good place to take Granny or Ma-in-law, both of whom will feel completely at home and have a jolly happy time. Oh, and by the way you can get married there too.