Ruth Squires talks to Benjamin Mouquet, the University of Manchester graduate helping build a better community with The Dealer App, which donates money to homeless of Manchester whilst giving it’s customers great deals for dining out in the city

Street food, daytime drinking and live music. What’s not to love at this years Food and Drink Festival!

What better way to make new friends at the start of a new term than by cooking up a great Thai curry for them? Plus, with all the veg in here you might even be able to fight off that Freshers’ flu! This dish can easily be made entirely from vegetables, or you can include your favourite meat for a great midweek meal

With the number of food allergies on the rise, we went to five different restaurants to see how they deal with allergies

A super quick, healthy and satisfying dish, butternut squash is full of vitamin c and is creamy when mashed and mixed with low fat crème fraîche

A visually striking and delicious dish which celebrates the harmony of some stunning flavours; sweet crispy meringue, tangy lemon with a crunchy almond tart base and sharp blackcurrant with refreshing mint

Food is there to be enjoyed; to say that the French “live to eat” rather than “eat to live” is an understatement

Yard & Coop struck the perfect balance between the guilty pleasure of fried chicken, and a more refined Northern Quarter feel

Helena Maxwell-Jackson weighs the pros and cons of fried chicken, where it comes from, and if it is affordable to be ethical

Helena Maxwell-Jackson creates a brunch that means no worries for the rest of your days

The burger craze has now hit the dessert course with these fun cakes

Beth Currall investigates the calorific truth behind fallowfields’ most love takeaways

We asked fellow Mancunion editor, Emily Clark, what she has been reading (and drinking) this week

Our first blind date of the year!