Imagine suggesting pizza for lunch.

Everyone agrees. Nothing unusual there.

Then somebody asks whether you'd like half a metre or the full metre.

Suddenly, lunch has become a logistical exercise.

Because hidden away on Saracen Way, just off Newark Road, The Deli Chef by Divino is serving pizzas that make your usual 12-inch order look rather modest.

And before you ask, yes, a metre really does mean 100 centimetres of pizza.

The sort of order that makes everybody at the table stop talking when it arrives.

You won't necessarily find it by accident

Here's the other surprise.

The Deli Chef isn't sitting in the middle of Peterborough's restaurant quarter, surrounded by people browsing menus and deciding where to eat.

It's in the Newark Road area, among the sort of businesses you'd normally associate with an industrial estate.

Not exactly where you'd expect to discover one of the city's more unusual Italian food offerings.

A local food group that went looking for the metre-long pizza earlier this year even reported having trouble finding the café with sat-nav.

There's free parking outside, which is handy if you're making a special trip.

And let's face it, nobody accidentally orders a metre of pizza while popping in for a quick coffee.

The pizza has two sizes. Neither is particularly shy.

The Deli Chef offers both half-metre and one-metre pizzas.

These aren't enormous circular pizzas pretending to be something else. They're long, rectangular creations intended for sharing.

Picture the scene.

Four friends sit down for lunch. Everyone starts discussing toppings. Somebody suggests ordering a few pizzas.

Then one person spots the metre option.

The conversation changes immediately.

Would it fit on the table?

How many people could finish it?

Would ordering two half-metres be cheating?

It's the kind of food that turns an ordinary lunch into an occasion before anyone has taken a bite.

But there's an important question beneath all the novelty.

Is the pizza actually any good?

A metre of disappointing pizza is still disappointing pizza

Size will get people through the door once.

It won't bring them back.

The Deli Chef says it uses local produce wherever possible, and its standard pizzas are freshly prepared with dough made daily and Italian ingredients.

Its online menu also emphasises that the pizza isn't frozen.

That's encouraging, because there would be something particularly tragic about ordering 100 centimetres of pizza only to discover you wished you'd stopped after the first ten.

Customer reviews mention the unusual pizza sizes, while Cambridge Food Hunter featured the giant pizza as a reason to make the trip to Peterborough.

So there's more to the attraction than simply measuring your lunch.

Although we suspect a photograph is almost compulsory.

Who actually orders a metre of pizza?

Nobody needs one.

But then nobody needs a burger held together with a wooden skewer, a dessert delivered with sparklers or a milkshake that looks as though somebody has emptied the entire sweetshop onto it.

Sometimes going out for food should be a bit of fun.

A metre-long pizza has obvious possibilities for a family gathering, a birthday lunch or a group of friends who fancy ordering something a little ridiculous.

And there's always that one person who announces they could eat the whole thing themselves.

We'd be interested to see how confidently they repeat that claim halfway through.

Fortunately, there's the half-metre option for anyone who wants the novelty without quite so much commitment.

The best part? It's still a normal café.

You could visit The Deli Chef and never order an unusually long pizza at all.

The wider menu includes breakfasts, hot meals, sandwiches, cakes and coffee.

Which makes the whole thing even more entertaining.

One customer might be enjoying a perfectly ordinary café lunch.

At the next table, somebody is working out how to divide a metre of pizza between five people.

Both are apparently reasonable lunchtime decisions in Peterborough.

There's a bigger Peterborough story here

The metre-long pizza is fun, but the location is what makes this particularly interesting.

It's a reminder that some of the city's more memorable food discoveries aren't necessarily found in the obvious restaurant streets.

Sometimes they're tucked away in places you drive past without a second glance.

A café on an industrial estate.

A restaurant behind an unremarkable entrance.

A dish that locals keep mentioning because it sounds too unusual not to investigate.

That's exactly the sort of Peterborough story we like.

And it's one reason we've been developing our sister publication, Peterborough Taste Trail, which explores the city's restaurants, cafés, pubs and food discoveries in more detail.

Can Peterborough beat a metre of pizza?

Now we're curious.

What other dish in Peterborough deserves attention because it's enormous, unusual or simply unlike anything else you've ordered?

Perhaps it's a spectacular dessert, an unexpected speciality or something served in a place nobody would think to look.

We're not interested in making every meal a competitive-eating event.

But we do like food that gives people something to talk about afterwards.

Tell us the dish and where to find it in the comments.

We might just make it the next Taste Trail discovery.