Featuring a Cottage Pie that may well be taking liberties with that term. The pie filling. On New Year`s Eve, while Gina greeted our guests, I set about clearing out the fridge, and constructing the pie filling. The fridge yielded up some left over fore rib of roast beef, and some roasted shoulder of Pork. Both were trimmed and diced, and Pepper helped to dispose of some of the fatty/grisly pieces. I took a brief trip into the dugout to grab some carrots and a few shallots le

Featuring a series of ongoing events to help get the new year off with a bang! Bottle & Board is pleased to announce a new feature. Our news page/blog, will now include a question at the end of each bulletin. The first person to correctly answer the question in the comments section, will be entitled to claim a free drink at the shop. (as always T&C`s will apply.) The good news is that every so often, the answer to the question will appear, hidden in plain sight within the tex

NYE 2025,at Peterborough`s specialist Bottle shop will be a ticketed entry event! On New Year`s eve, the shop will be closed from 18.00 until midnight for a ticket entry only event. A buffet and curated cheese board will be served during the course of the evening. Eddie & Gina look forward to wishing all of our regular customers, A very happy new year for 2026. Cheers chums!

Featuring Scottish Salmon cured in a Himalayan pink sea salt, soft brown organic sugar and fresh Rosemary and Lemon zest cure. Gina and I popped out this morning to collect 3 sides of freshly caught salmon. Less than 20 minutes later we had knocked together a couple of pounds of cure which we liberally rubbed into the salmon sides. Tomorrow morning, bright and early the cured fish will receive an 18 hour cold smoke over Oak dust. (Photos to follow in due course.) For those l

Featuring a Louisiana, Duck & biscuits pie. AKA: A Cajun Christmas Cobbler. Q: When is a pie not a pie? A: When it has merely a pastry topping, and no crust on the bottom. The top crust. Rub 125 grams of cold butter into 250 grams of self-raising flour, and a teaspoon of cajun spice mix, to form a breadcrumb like texture. stir in a 1/4 cup of double cream to create a soft,pliable dough. Chill for 30 minutes. The filling. To make the filling, take 1/2lb of chopped, cooked duc

Bottle & Board`s annual Sausage-roll bake-off competition 21st December 2025. The time has come for Bottle & Board`s, bold and brave bakers, to dust off their pinnies and light their ovens. Sunday the 21st of December will see Bottle & Board, in conjunction with our sponsor, specialist beer wholesaler, James Clay, hosting Peterborough`s original Sausage-roll bake-off competition. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor in providing, the all important, liquid element of first,

Featuring news of a brand new sponsorship deal for this year`s Bake-off, and a splendid bespoke trophy, created and donated by a mystery benefactor! Celebrations indeed! Yesterday, Gina took a trip to London in her capacity as, ethoscoaching*. Upon her return she was laden down with all manner of good things from Borough Market, including a brace of superb sausage rolls from The Ginger Pig. Anyone, who knows anything about sausage rolls will know that the sausage rolls serve

Featuring a brand new beer from Rochefort Trappiste brewery. Rochefort Triple Extra 8.1% abv. (7.6% in keg.) Rochefort brewery have asked specialist wholesaler, James Clay to choose a number of select venues in the UK which are capable of hosting the first draught pour of their fantastic new beer. James Clay have responded by naming Bottle and Board as Peterborough`s premier beer venue.* Rochefort Triple Extra is a golden blond beer in the classic trappiste style. Flavoured w

Featuring that most warming of comfort dishes, the Shepherd`s Pie, and including a comparison between the basic & deluxe version. The classic Shepherd`s Pie seems simple enough, in it`s most basic form it is nothing more than cooked lamb mince and onions, topped with mashed potato and baked in the oven. There are however, a great number of people who are unable to distinguish between "Shepherd`s and Cottage pie" (Shepherd`s herd sheep and beef farmers do not.) Whenever Gina

A few of this season's sides of smoked salmon from the Bottle & Board smokehouse will be available at Christmas! Last year, Eddie...

(Featuring a Chicken, Bacon,Mushroom, Leek & Tarragon plate pie.) There can now be little doubt that we are experiencing the last...

Sunday the 21st of December will see us hosting the 3rd annual, Yuletide sausage roll competition. Details will follow, but for now, let...

Here at Bottle & Board, we are always on the look out for something new and interesting to offer our loyal customers. If there were some...

Tomorrow (25th of September.) sees the start of Bottle and Board`s Oktoberfest. Gina and I decided to get into the mood with the classic...

The Big reveal! On Friday the 19th of September, Tacos and Flipflops will be serving their fantastic spicy vegan food at Bottle & Board....

The third annual, Bottle & Board, Festive sausage roll Bake-off will take place at the shop on Sunday the 21st of December 2025. The rules are very simple. Please present, not less than eight sausage rolls to Eddie, at the shop, on Sunday between the hours of 13.00 & 15.00*. Bring your entries in whatever container best suits you. Eddie will transfer your precious cargo to a serving board, as illustrated below. (alas! It will not be an elegant, round trencher, such as feature

Bottle and Board*, are pleased to announce the third annual, homemade sausage roll making and baking competition. *In conjunction with the Christmas Connoisseur Club! The rules are very simple. 1: Present not less than 8 sausage rolls*, such as might be served at a Yuletide party or Boxing day buffet. 2: Any style of sausage meat filling is permitted. 3: Any type of pastry is acceptable. (i.e. Shortcrust, Flaky or Rough-puff.) * Entries will be accepted between the hours of 1

This year`s festival begins on Thursday the 19th at 18.00. Beers on tap. Erdinger Oktoberfest. 5.7% abv. This straw coloured, mildly...

Bottle & Board are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an exclusive presentation of beers from Stone`s heritage range. This will...

All of the beer and prizes have now arrived. The premise could not be more simple. From 14.00 on Thursday, all customers will be issued...