Hester Lonergan reports on her favourite Northern Quarter coffee joint

Lauren Howells gets creative in finding an alternative to getting down and dirty

Food for thought: What are the foods that turn us on in the bedroom? Perisha Kudhail takes a peek into people’s private pantries

Sam Joyce and Charlie Filmer-Court visit Manchester’s Beer and Cider Festival 2015

A few weeks ago, we featured an article on the food of Ella Woodward…

Co-editor Ellie Gibbs visits Oxford Road’s Japanese restaurant, Umami

Tilly Embling shows us how to make another fantastic recipe

There’s more to mince than Shepherd’s Pie. Adam Fearn offers his recipe for easy-to-make Scandinavian meatballs

Save your time, money and liver this weekend by opting not to go out, says Robert Firth

Sam Joyce and Charlie Filmer-Court review East Didsbury’s The Dog and Partridge—a quaint pub with a fantastic atmosphere

Feeling a bit fragile after a long week of partying? Anna Lawson-Walker offers a quick, easy and cheap recipe

New to Instagram? Obsessive Foodie? Anna Lawson-Walker suggests some of the best accounts to follow

Hester Lonergan reviews Kosmonaut, a popular bar in The Northern Quarter

Tilly Embling offers her recipe for fajitas

Ellie Gibbs heads to Ancoats’ street food warehouse to try out what’s on offer.

Ben Walker shares his experience of Fallowfield’s Fuzion

In search of a notorious wedge of cake, a friend and I were quickly thrown off course after coming into contact with Pieminister

Geography student Jose Harrington inspires cooking from around the world with this authentic African dish

Hester Lonergan visits North Tea Power, a relaxing cafe in Manchester’s Northern Quarter

Often in the shadow of their starchy distant relative the potato, sweet potatoes are just as cheap, versatile and delicious as the mighty jacketed staple food. At around 79p per kg at Lidl (that’s about 3 big ones), there is no excuse not to have a go at some of our tasty and cost cutting recipes. Don’t be put off by their coloured skin and mutated shapes; it’s what’s inside that counts. Equality for the potatoes!